INTEL
Inside Intel's Core architecture 28 July 2006
Intel's Core architecture now underlies mobile, desktop and server chips, and is a major departure from the Pentium 4's NetBurst design.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 14 July 2006
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo.
Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor
Extreme dominance built-in. You've hard-core battled your enemies in this world and beyond, but never like this. With the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor, you get the best unrivaled performance in the universe.So let them challenge you and let the annihilation begin.
When "Extreme" is an understatement.It's not about playing the game. It's about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme power, the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor for desktop PCs features the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 4 MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1066 MHz Front Side Bus. So you've got the future of PC gaming now, and only from Intel:
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency
Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance
Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of all available data bandwidth
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other
Warning: Graphics may appear to be too real.The new Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor is frighteningly vivid, and perfect for your new high-definition (HD) universe. Get inside amazingly complex HD games and applications with the incredible performance from Intel's most advanced gaming desktop processor ever.
Energy-efficient performance? Rage on.Intel's 3rd generation dual-core processor, the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor was designed to run energy-efficient so you can run red hot. Plus, that added energy efficiency enables systems to run quieter so you only hear what you want to hear - the sounds of sweet victory perhaps?
AMD
AMD's Athlon64 4000 and FX-55
Four months after the introduction of AMD's Socket 939 platform, AMD latest processor crop is here. Only a week after Intel's announcement to drop plans of hitting 4 GHz any time soon, AMD now tries to hit Intel where it hurts with an even faster and architecturally improved device. AMD's latest processor performance success is also based on how AMD, with its Athlon64 4000+ and FX-55 launches, still manages to wring more performance out of its 130 nm process. This is also after Intel switched to 90 nm in February.
AMD Athlon FX-60 processor.
The recent launch of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 represents the end of the line as such for the socket-939 processors with no further speed increases to come. Now all processors will be moving over to the new AMD socket-M2 for Athlon 64, Athlon 64 x2 and the FX-60. The AM2 or socket-M2 platform comes with DDR2 memory support which is great and is due for release very soon in a few months.
It is worth bearing in mind before you rush out and buy a dual core processor that single core processors are quicker at single core threaded applications than dual-core processors are.
This latest AMD FX-60 is basically just a slightly faster version running at 2.6GHz or rather an unlocked Athlon 64 x2 made using 90nm technology. It is made of 233 million transistors compared to the Intel Pentium EE 955 with 376 million transistors but AMD is still the more powerful and faster processor in tests.
Unless you have a bottomless wallet we cannot recommend and do not recommend buying either an AMD FX or indeed even worse an Intel EE processor as to us they do not represent value-for-money in the computer world where new faster products are coming on the market every day. As this AMD FX-60 is only a nats faster than the earlier FX-57 the cost is just not worth it.
Inside Intel's Core architecture 28 July 2006
Intel's Core architecture now underlies mobile, desktop and server chips, and is a major departure from the Pentium 4's NetBurst design.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 14 July 2006
Intel's Core 2 Duo E6700 offers the best price-to-performance ratio we've seen in a desktop chip. For half the cost of AMD's top-of-the-line chip, you get identical if not superior performance and better power efficiency. AMD surprised us last year with its completely dominant dual-core chips, but Intel regains the crown with Core 2 Duo.
Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor
Extreme dominance built-in. You've hard-core battled your enemies in this world and beyond, but never like this. With the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor, you get the best unrivaled performance in the universe.So let them challenge you and let the annihilation begin.
When "Extreme" is an understatement.It's not about playing the game. It's about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme power, the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor for desktop PCs features the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 4 MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1066 MHz Front Side Bus. So you've got the future of PC gaming now, and only from Intel:
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency
Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance
Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of all available data bandwidth
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other
Warning: Graphics may appear to be too real.The new Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor is frighteningly vivid, and perfect for your new high-definition (HD) universe. Get inside amazingly complex HD games and applications with the incredible performance from Intel's most advanced gaming desktop processor ever.
Energy-efficient performance? Rage on.Intel's 3rd generation dual-core processor, the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor was designed to run energy-efficient so you can run red hot. Plus, that added energy efficiency enables systems to run quieter so you only hear what you want to hear - the sounds of sweet victory perhaps?
AMD
AMD's Athlon64 4000 and FX-55
Four months after the introduction of AMD's Socket 939 platform, AMD latest processor crop is here. Only a week after Intel's announcement to drop plans of hitting 4 GHz any time soon, AMD now tries to hit Intel where it hurts with an even faster and architecturally improved device. AMD's latest processor performance success is also based on how AMD, with its Athlon64 4000+ and FX-55 launches, still manages to wring more performance out of its 130 nm process. This is also after Intel switched to 90 nm in February.
AMD Athlon FX-60 processor.
The recent launch of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 represents the end of the line as such for the socket-939 processors with no further speed increases to come. Now all processors will be moving over to the new AMD socket-M2 for Athlon 64, Athlon 64 x2 and the FX-60. The AM2 or socket-M2 platform comes with DDR2 memory support which is great and is due for release very soon in a few months.
It is worth bearing in mind before you rush out and buy a dual core processor that single core processors are quicker at single core threaded applications than dual-core processors are.
This latest AMD FX-60 is basically just a slightly faster version running at 2.6GHz or rather an unlocked Athlon 64 x2 made using 90nm technology. It is made of 233 million transistors compared to the Intel Pentium EE 955 with 376 million transistors but AMD is still the more powerful and faster processor in tests.
Unless you have a bottomless wallet we cannot recommend and do not recommend buying either an AMD FX or indeed even worse an Intel EE processor as to us they do not represent value-for-money in the computer world where new faster products are coming on the market every day. As this AMD FX-60 is only a nats faster than the earlier FX-57 the cost is just not worth it.
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