AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition Review
Today we are looking at one of the processors from AMD's 2010 line up, designed to go up against Intel's Pentium dual cores at the important £75 inc. VAT price point. Intel would no doubt prefer us to pitch this chip against its Core i3 530, but......
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(Posted by: Ian Jackson on 2010-03-23)
Intel Core 2 Duo Review
Intel's Core 2 Duo is beiong touted as a revolution in processor performance, but does it live up to the hype? ByteSizedReviews takes our usual to-the-point look at Intels new line of CPUs, putting the E6700 and X6800 against AMD's flagship; the......
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(Posted by: Ben on 2006-08-15)
New style AMD CPU packaging part II - solution!
A few days ago we released an article showing AMDs new "unlock-proof" packaging technique. Some crafty readers however have found a way past AMD's latest attempt to thwart dual CPU users and overclockers with older KT333 and KT400 motherboards......
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(Posted by: Ben on 2003-09-16)
New style AMD CPU packaging
AMD have changed the packaging techniques of their XP processors to stop enthusiasts from being able to remap the multiplier, unlock the chips or allow regular XPs to be used as MP dual enabled CPUs. We have the details and how to spot these new......
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(Posted by: Ben on 2003-09-09)
P4 3.2ghz vs. 3200+: K7 and NW one last time
As has always been the case, if you want the fastest desktop CPU Intel has to offer, you better have very deep pockets. Intel's top of the line processors have always had a major step up in price over the rest of their CPU's, because Intel knows......
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(Posted by: Nightmare on 2003-07-17)
Intel Pentium 4 2.4C Processor Review.
Posting at 3800MHz, and stable at a GHz over stock, the 2.4GHz ‘C’ Pentium is perhaps the best overclocking chip since the Celeron 300A in terms of bang-for-buck. Couple it with an IC7, some dual channel memory and an SLK 900A and watch it rip......
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(Posted by: Arnie on 2003-06-24)
Magic Athlon XP 1800+! (Thoroughbred B)
This particular chip was originally a 2600+, and AMD have simply siphoned off batches from faster production lines to supplement slower models where demand is higher. Just goes to show how much profit margin there is on an XP2600+ if they can be......
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(Posted by: Arnie on 2003-03-29)
Intel Pentium 4 2.0A and 2.2 GHz Northwood CPUs
It has been about 4 months since we reviewed the Pentium 4 2 GHz processor. Until January 7th 2002 that was also the fastest clocked processor in production, but not......
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(Posted by: Major on 2002-02-18)
Intel Pentium 4 2 GHz Processor Review
A few weeks ago we reviewed the Athlon XP (review here), a CPU that was put out to make it harder for the Pentium 4 to maintain its apparent performance lead (MHz to MHz). The new naming......
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(Posted by: Major on 2001-10-28)
Golden Socket
Since the days of the Slot A Athlon, out-of-the-box multiplier control has been practically non existant, save for a few lucky Socket A 1200Mhz chips. With the Slot A processors you could hook up a device, called a Golden Finger (or GFD for......
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(Posted by: Polarhound on 2001-10-27)
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (Palomino 1.53 GHz)
Today marks the launch of – what would seem to be - a whole new line of processors from AMD, namely the Athlon XP. More specifically the launch includes four processors - the Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33 GHz), XP 1600+ (1.4 GHz), XP 1700+ (1.467 GHz) and......
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(Posted by: Major on 2001-10-01)
