chips

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 review

Reviews AMD, you've had a good run, but Intel has now launched its line of Core 2 Duo desktop CPUs -- if you're buying a new computer or building one of your own, you'd be wise to see that it has one of these chips in it.

Editor's rating   9

Tags: intel, fans, cache, requirements

27 July 2006, 11:41

Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 review

Reviews Instead, the Core 2 Duo uses what's called the Core architecture (not to be confused with Intel's Core Duo and Core Solo laptop chips, released in January). The advances in the Core architecture explain why even though the Core 2 Duo chips have...

Editor's rating   8.7

Tags: intel, requirements, fans, cpu

14 August 2006, 11:18

JVC GR-X5 review

Reviews In theory, three chips offer better image quality than one, as well as the potential for still images that are more competitive with those of dedicated digital still cameras. They are not likely to get much smaller or to offer much better quality...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: jvc, microphone, pixels, chip

19 August 2005, 18:26

What are my processor, screen and memory options?

Reviews Inexpensive, but slower than Intel Pentium chips, according to our tests Extremely inexpensive, slightly slower than Intel Pentium chips Very inexpensive, weaker performance than Celeron and Pentium chips

12 May 2005, 17:39

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review

Reviews When those Pentium Extreme Edition chips started hitting 3.6GHz and higher, the cumbersome liquid-cooling hardware required to keep them from overheating became a visible, noisy reminder that heat dissipation is a major challenge for system builders.

Editor's rating   8.7

Tags: intel, raw, photoshop, chip

15 November 2006, 13:40

Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 review

Reviews It helped usher in the dual-card SLI era, and even though ATI's Radeon X1000's can jump through a few more hoops, we think most gamers would argue that this current generation of 3D chips has served the gaming public well.

Editor's rating   8

Tags: nvidia, high quality, filtering, pixel

19 June 2006, 15:05

Sony PlayStation 3 (40GB) review

Reviews This was previously handled by a combination of chips and software, but Sony has decided to save money on the chips and let the PS3's games stand on their own. Sony has finally responded to criticism that its next-generation console is too...

Editor's rating   8.7

Tags: sony, model, hard drive, chips

19 October 2007, 16:29

Penryn desktop replacements

Reviews Penryn is just the codename -- they're all Core 2 Duo chips. Some machines can even use two chips in tandem, such as the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT SLI. Desktop replacement laptops are ideal if you don't have space for a full-size desktop PC, but still...

24 April 2008, 13:42

Best cheap laptops for £499 and under

Reviews As you would expect, budget machines tend to use the slower mobile chips such as the Celeron and Sempron. Low-cost models generally use less powerful onboard graphics chips, such as Intel's Mobile 945GM Express or Nvida's GeForce Go 6100.

4 May 2007, 12:07

Dell Dimension 5100 preview

Reviews You can configure the Dimension 5100 with a new Intel Pentium 4 5x1-series CPU, which adds 64-bit processing capability to the older 32-bit Pentium 4 500 chips. The four chips offered -- the Pentium 4 521, 531, 541 and 551 -- range in clock speed...

Tags: dell, case, intel, processing

14 July 2005, 15:17

Select the processor and memory

Reviews Comparable to Intel's Celeron D chips. Inexpensive, but slower than Intel Pentium chips. It's the single most important component, but that doesn't mean you need to rush out and splurge on the processor with the fastest clock speed.

16 May 2005, 12:35

Apple iMac Core Duo (20-inch, 2.0GHz) review

Reviews Software compatibility issues aside, the move to Intel chips is significant to the iMac for reasons beyond the speed increase. Both iChat and Front Row have been reprogrammed to run on the Intel chips, as has Apple's Tiger OS X 10.4.4 and the newly...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: apple, binary, boost, universal

24 March 2006, 9:16

Alienware Aurora mALX review

Reviews Most laptops rely on their integrated audio chips for audio processing, but the mALX comes with a high-end Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS PC Card. FeaturesAlienware uses both Intel and AMD components but the company tends to favour AMD chips...

Editor's rating   8.6

Tags: dedicated, dell, aspect, signal

14 August 2006, 15:03

rockdirect Xtreme CTX T7400 review

Reviews The secondary or level 2 (L2) cache on the Core 2 Duo is a mammoth 4MB -- twice that of the standard Core Duo chips. It may seem slow compared to the fastest 2.3GHz Core Duo chips, but Core 2 Duo chips don't stress the importance of high clock...

Editor's rating   9.2

Tags: rockdirect, slot, section, pixels

27 August 2006, 8:00

Sim2 C3X review

Reviews Also inside the highly attractive, Italian-styled casing lurks a trio of Texas Instruments HD2+ DarkChip 3 chips, the latest and greatest in digital light projection. And because of Sim2's close relationship with TI, they get first call on the...

Editor's rating   8.9

Tags: sim2, high definition, contrast, italian

27 February 2006, 14:10