Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. p>It isn't easy keeping up with Intel's enigmatically ...

Intel’s two new Core i7 CPUs (860 and 870) are mid-range counterparts to its top-of-the-line Core i7 900-series chips, and initial tests (using Intel’s new DP55KG motherboard) indicate their ...

The following benchmarks measure raw processor throughput along with memory bandwidth. Both Cinebench and LAME show performance scaling as CPU speed increases and also gives single vs multi threaded ...

This simple integer benchmark focuses on the branch prediction capabilities and the misprediction penalties of the CPU. It finds the solutions for the classic "Queens problem" on a 10 by 10 sized ...

Is Hyper-Threading worth it? Although Hyper-Threading has been available in various Intel CPUs since the Xeon MP in 2002, Intel deems it so important that it's Hyper-Threading support (and not ...

I am currently running on an i7-860 system with 8GB of RAM that I built in early 2010. System runs fine and I have no issues with either speed or anything but I am looking towards putting together a ...

Surprisingly MaxxMem² reports very little difference in memory bandwidth between the Core i7 920 and the new Core i7 860 processor. Despite utilizing a triple-channel memory controller, the Core i7 ...

Lynnfield CPUs overclock in a very similar way to LGA1366 Core i7s. The only significant difference is overclocking the Base Clock with Lynnfield compared with the QPI of LGA1366 Bloomfield CPUs. As ...

The performance levels offered by the Gamer Extreme 3000 were impressive throughout testing. Going head-to-head with three X58 based systems, CyberPower's configuration consistently finished at or ...

We recently stumbled onto this great little tool called Kribi bench. It is a 3D rendering benchmark produced by the people at Adept Development. Kribi bench is an SSE aware software renderer where a ...