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AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 gaming CPU: tested

Crave From a physical design perspective, it's identical to its most recent predecessors in the Athlon 64 CPU family. At the time, we speculated it would easily become the fastest desktop CPU money could buy, and we've since spent a significant length of...

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26 January 2006, 15:28

Intel Atom N270: The brains behind the mini laptop revolution

Crave Unfortunately, we couldn't tell you what CPU it was using, due to threats of incessant tickle-based torture from Intel. As you can see from the accompanying CPU-Z screenshot, which we ran on the Wind, it's the much-lauded 45nm Silverthorne chip the...

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3 June 2008, 17:10

AMD Athlon FX60: Gunning for top spot

Crave Released today, the FX60 is touted as the fastest CPU money can buy. It fills a neat gap between the single-core FX-57 gaming CPU and the dual-core X2 4800+, which is designed for extreme multitasking.

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10 January 2006, 11:17

Vaio NR11Z: A budget Vaio. Yes, that's right

Crave We're currently playing with the top-of-the-range (£649) VGN-NR11Z/S, which has a 2GHz dual-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 200GB hard drive, and a 15.4-inch screen. If £649 is too rich for your blood, you can opt for the £549 model, which has a 1.46GHz CPU...

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3 October 2007, 11:25

Apple gives MacBook Pro Santa Rosa and LED displays

Crave For £1,299 you can get one with a 2.2GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, a 120GB hard drive and an Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT (128MB) graphics card. For £1,599, you can nab a 2.4GHz CPU, 2G of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and a 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT graphics card.

Tags: apple, hard drive, resolution, intel

6 June 2007, 11:55

Crave Talk: AMD and ATI merge -- rivals quiver in fear

Crave AMD has been praised for its achievements in keeping up with, and even surpassing, Intel in CPU performance terms, but the CPU is only a small part of today's PC. Graphics cards and chipsets (the chip or chips on a motherboard that provide...

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25 July 2006, 13:34

New iMacs in 'getting latest CPUs again' shocker

Crave The entry-level 20-inch iMac now ships with a 2.4GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive for £799.buys you a slightly quicker version of the 20-incher, thanks to its 2.66GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM and 320GB hard drive.

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29 April 2008, 11:00

Dell XPS M1730: SLI with added PhysX

Crave It leaves the CPU free to focus on other tasks as it processes collisions, particle effects and all manner of other graphical niceties. Oh, and you can get a ludicrously fast Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 CPU and 4GB of RAM, too.

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1 October 2007, 12:24

Sony Vaio AR and Vaio RC: Blu-ray laptop and desktop combo

Crave You get an HDMI video output, a TV tuner, and it all runs off a 2GHz Core Duo CPU and a plucky GeForce Go 7600 GT graphics card. We haven't got any firm details on the PC's final specification, but it's likely to use a dual-core Pentium D CPU, lots...

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16 May 2006, 11:33

Photos: New Commodore XX gaming PCs LAN it up

Crave An Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core CPU powers away behind a custom-modified cooling system from Arctic. Two gigabytes of Corsair Dominator memory sit alongside the CPU, along with X-Fi audio from Creative and a pair of 10,000 rpm hard disks in RAID...

28 June 2007, 12:44

Dell unleashes Linux laptops and desktops on UK

Crave The entry-level 6400n has an Intel Celeron M 520 CPU running at 1.6GHz, 512MB of RAM and a 60GB hard drive. For an extra £50 you can get a 1.73GHz T2080 Pentium dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. Linux has hit the mainstream -- it's official.

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9 August 2007, 10:44

Asus Ebox: Desktop Eee PC launches 3 June

Crave We won't know whether it'll use an Intel Atom CPU until Asus lifts the lid at the Computex show in Taipei on 3 June, but we're betting it'll use some form of mobile CPU. Hang on to your loins -- it is but seven days before the launch of the hotly...

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27 May 2008, 10:33

Eee PC 904: Netbook R-Eee-mix

Crave Inside, it'll ditch the new Intel Atom CPU in favour of the old 900MHz Pentium M that featured in the Eee PC 900.Other specs aren't confirmed, but we expect the 904 will use a standard hard drive -- possibly 80GB -- plus 1GB of RAM and a choice of...

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8 July 2008, 11:57

MSI Wind: Hands-on, with exclusive photos

Crave What's more, the CPU can be overclocked by about 20 per cent using a dedicated button and MSI's TurboDrive Engine -- which we saw on the TurboBook GX600. It's still super-portable and once you see the confirmed specs -- and the extra tricks up its...

29 May 2008, 11:51

HTC MTeoR and TyTN: the Windows Mobile Laurel and Hardy

Crave It's a candybar-style phone with a 300MHz Samsung CPU, 128MB ROM and 64MB RAM, as well as a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, infrared, a microSD slot and a three-way jog wheel. It runs on Windows Mobile 5.0, but uses a faster 400MHz Samsung stacked...

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15 June 2006, 16:52