November 23, 2010
Before you go maxing out the available balance on your credit card picking up Intel’s Core i7 980X processor, you may want to hang tight for a couple of months. According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, the Santa Clara chip maker will introduce its ne…
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September 24, 2010
All the focus right now is on Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture and AMD’s Bulldozer cores, but hey, there’s still some life left in today’s architectures, too. Within the next couple of months or so, AMD will beef up its Phenom II X6 line with…
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August 23, 2010
Enthusiasts with deep pockets will have another six-core Extreme Edition processor from Intel to line their rigs with, but not until the first quarter of 2011. That’s when Intel will reportedly drop its upcoming Core i7 990X processor into the high-end…
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July 19, 2010
Let’s start off with the good news. Intel’s newest six-core chip, the Core i7 970, has started showing up in retail, giving DIY system builders a lower priced option to choose from if sticking with Intel. Ready for the bad news? The price isn’t all tha…
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July 13, 2010
The film Predators opened in theaters over the weekend, and as was the case with several other flicks proceed by Robert Rodriquez — Shorts, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids 3D: Game Over, Planet Terror, Sin City — it was AMD hardware t…
Tags: 6-core, AMD, ATI, CPU, firepro, GPU, hardware, hexa-core, IT News, Maximum IT, movie, Opteron, predators, processor, six-core, theater, videocard
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July 8, 2010
Forget about how the actual performance stands up, if we’re judging chips based solely on how many cores they’re packing, then AMD stands alone in the budget and mid-range territories. Intel’s lowest priced six core processor is also its most expensiv…
Tags: 1045t, 6-core, AMD, CPU, hardware, hexa-core, News Worthy, phenom ii x6, processor, six-core
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June 29, 2010
If you’re planning on building a system around AMD’s six-core Phenom II X6 platform, you may want to sit tight for a few days and see how things shake out. In exchange for your patience, you might be rewarded with a more power-friendly chip than you we…
Tags: 1055t, 125W, 6-core, 95W, AMD, build a pc, CPU, hardware, hexa-core, News Worthy, Phenom, phenom ii x6, processor, six-core, tdp
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June 15, 2010
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen AMD fight back against Intel by releasing low-cost alternatives to Intel’s pricier parts (how many of you have fond memories of owning a Barton platform?), and as expected, AMD’s six-core processors are flying off o…
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