Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core Processor
Man, a lot is happening at this very moment in the hardware industry. It's called silly season, and every manufacturer will try to deliver it's best and most refreshing product just in time for you to purchase at Christmas.
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12.11.2007 Intel Announces Quad-Core Processor
At an early morning keynote address to open the semi-annual Intel Developers' Forum in San Francisco, CEO Paul Otellini confirmed what hardware industry resources had already known for weeks: A Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor is coming this November for the enthusiast segment of the PC market, with Core 2 Quad processors for the mainstream segment and Quad-Core Xeon server processors soon to follow in the first quarter of next year.
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27.9.2006 Quad-Core Xeon System Previewed
Tyan Computer is showing off one of the first hardware systems containing Quad-Core Xeon 5300 processors at the Intel Developer Forum here today.
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17.10.2006 Intel to Launch Core 2 Quad Chip in January
Intel plans to launch the third model of its four-core processor in January, continuing its efforts to stay ahead of Advanced Micro Devices on the next-generation processor family.
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20.12.2006 Introducing the AMD Phenom quad core processor
Delivering a four-core foreshadowing of innovations to come for PC enthusiasts worldwide, AMD today unveiled the upcoming AMD Phenom processor family name and publicly demonstrated the first all-AMD enthusiast platform, codenamed FASN8.
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14.5.2007 AMD's quad-core Barcelona coming in August
Advanced Micro Devices in August will begin selling its quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors, models that answer Intel's current products but soon will face stiffer competition.
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30.6.2007 Intel to Launch Quad-Core Chips on November 13
In a race with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel will bring its quad-core chips to market in a new line of Hewlett-Packard workstations due to be introduced on November 13.
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15.10.2006 Intel Set to Postpone Introduction of New Quad-Core Microprocessors
Intel Corp. may postpone the actual release of its quad-core microprocessors produced using 45nm process technology due to an undisclosed defect and the fact that both Intel and its partners have a lot of central processing units (CPUs) with four processing engines made using 65nm tech in stock. It is unclear whether the delay will affect the worlds largest x86 chipmaker financially.
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20.12.2007 Intel Plans to Speed-Up Desktop Quad-Core Chips Bus
Intel Corp. may be planning to once again speed-up its quad-core offering next quarter and introduce a chip with four processing engines with 1333MHz processor system bus (PSB), a rather unexpected, but a very logical move of the worlds largest maker of x86 microprocessors.
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14.4.2007 Gateway to Put Quad-core Desktop, Media Drive in Stores
Gateway will be one of the first PC makers to put quad-core desktops on retail shelves. The company announced April 30 deals with Best Buy, Circuit City Stores and CompUSA to sell its FX series at stores nationwide.
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3.5.2007 Intel: 3GHz Quad-Core Chips, 1600MHz Processor Bus Coming
The worlds largest chipmaker Intel Corp. announced on Wednesday that its server and workstation products made using 45nm process technology will be available already this year.
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23.2.2007 Architectural Wonders - HQ Wallpapers
Architectural Wonders - HQ Wallpapers
65 Images | JPG | 1600x1200 | 22 MB Thanks to hermanhlam for this download.
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5.8.2007 MS: New Windows Vista Wallpapers
New Windows Vista wallpapers are available for download from Microsoft. The fresh Vistas are not a repeat of the excellent collection that shipped included by default in the RTM version of the latest Windows client, nor are they additional Extras for the Windows Vista Ultimate SKU.
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19.6.2008 Download Windows vs. Walls Wallpapers
On September 18 Microsoft kick started the second phase of the $300 million Windows marketing campaign put together by ad agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky.
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19.9.2008 New Vista build 5361 screenshots and wallpapers!
Here are new screenshots and wallpapers from a leaked Vista build 5361!
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14.4.2006 Windows 7 Build 6956 Wallpapers Collection
Over 30, never oficially released, wallpapers available for Windows 7 only, until now!
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12.12.2008 Download Windows 7 Themes and Wallpapers from Microsoft
Personalize your PC - And just as Windows Vista, well, the Ultimate editions at least, came with the exclusive DreamScene video backgrounds, Windows 7 also offers tailored content unavailable to previous releases of the Windows operating system.
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17.2.2009 Windows 7 Box Art Themes & Wallpapers
I have just updated my Windows 7 Wallpapers and Windows 7 Themes Gallery with the following additions.
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7.8.2009 50 Extra Cars for NFS Most Wanted + wallpapers
BMW M3 GTR Race # 1, Porcshe 911 Carrera GT2, Corvette C6R, Barbage Truckm COP SUV (Rhino), COP GTO, Minivan, Taxi, Pickup, Cop, Marcedes SL65, Cement Truck, bisher noch nicht getestet, Chevrolet Camaro SS, Pizza Car, BMQ M3 GTR Street, Cop Corvette.
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23.1.2006 The definite guide to applying wallpapers in Windows Vista
As many of you may have stumbled across this problem when trying to set your favorite Pokemon pictures as wallpapers..
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27.10.2006 Microsoft Releases a Set of 12 New Windows Wallpapers
What better way to celebrate the gold versions of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 than with a set of brand new wallpapers straight from Microsoft?
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20.4.2008 Windows 7 Wallpapers Builds 7000, 7048 and 7057
Microsoft has a new label for the imagery designed to personalize Windows 7. A desktop background, formerly called wallpaper, is a picture on the desktop that provides a backdrop to your open windows, the company revealed on a webpage in the Windows 7 online hotspot dedicated to personalization.
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21.3.2009 Windows 7 Build 7072 Russia Wallpapers Download
Earlier today, you may have noticed the pictures of the new Windows 7 Russia wallpapers published on WinFuture, although, they are way too small for most screen resolutions.
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3.4.2009 120 Original Windows 7 High Resolution Wallpapers
Windows 7 has included several hidden regional themes which target different geographical areas.
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27.4.2009 Free Windows 7 Themes and Wallpapers on the Personalization Gallery
Concomitantly with the worldwide general availability of Windows 7, on October 22nd, 2009, Microsoft also released a collection of new content designed to enable users of certain editions of the operating system to personalize their desktops.
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4.11.2009 Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 Wallpapers Desktop Slideshow
The Desktop Slideshow is one of the features that Microsoft has tucked away in Windows 7, hidden even from testers (at this point in time) including the participants at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of the past month.
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5.11.2008 The First Dual Core Laptop
A dual core laptop was long awaited among the dual core family.
The one we are talking about is produced by WidowPC and is named Sting 917X2.
This new notebook uses the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor, making it the fastest dual core laptop.
Though, it seems that other companies like Alienware, Vodoo or Sager will soon launch similar products.
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3.12.2005 Could a three-core CPU be coming your way?
Tom's Hardware Guide ran one of the most unusual benchmarks I've ever seen, having taken a dual-CPU system and put two different CPUs in it. Now, anyone who knows anything about dual-CPU systems knows this is a no-no. Most motherboard makers don't even recommend mismatching steppings, let alone anything else. And sure enough, Tom's Hardware Guide had its fair share of trouble getting the system to work in such an odd configuration, but it got the system to work.
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3.12.2005 Download Bing Wallpapers & Set as Desktop Wallpaper with Wallpaper Downloader
In past we had reviewed Bing Downloader tool to download Bing background wallpaper and here is wallpaper downloader which is a small utility to download bing.com background image and set as desktop wallpaper.
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18.9.2009 Ballmer: Microsoft must be "multi-core"
CEO says Microsoft must continue to build out businesses in markets other companies have already created.
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28.7.2006Multi-Core Confrontation: Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs. Core 2 Duo E6850
While AMD keeps postponing the launch of their quad-core processors to the end of this year beginning of next, Intel Company is offering very
affordable quad-core CPUs from Core 2 Quad family. However, can Core 2 Quad processors be regarded as a worthy alternative to popular dual-core
solutions?
The Intel processor price cut that occurred a month ago turned into an important milestone on the multi-core
processors way to user computer systems. The price of quad-core processors has finally dropped down to the level of dual-core solutions. To be more
exact, the youngest model in the official Core 2 Quad lineup is priced exactly the same as the top Core 2 Duo CPU. This price, by the way, is set at
$266, which seems quite sufficient to make processors with four computational cores much more popular than they used to be before.
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01.09.2007Mainstream Quad-Core CPU Performance Comparison
Looking back, quad-core processors have had quite the run already. Intel's first quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was released almost
three years ago, with the much more popular Q6600 following up months later at a rather steep $850. As you may recall it was quite the luxury then
to have one of these at your disposal. Today we find ourselves with very different and diversified offerings from both companies, that are not only
cheaper but also significantly faster.
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11.09.2009Next Gen. iPhone to have a quad-core processor?
At MacWorld, ZNet has been hearing rumors of a quad-core iPhone coming. This new four core "iPhone Quad" is said to slaughter pretty much every
portable gaming platform on the market.
The new iPhone Quad will come with the firmware 3.0. Although Apple has not mentioned firmware
3.0 at all yet, it is expected to be released along with the new iPhone Quad.
Imagination Technologies will announce the PowerVR SGX543
at CES tomorrow, its the firms first multi-core capable GPU technology and Apple could have access to it.
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09.01.2009Apple Debuts Eight-Core Mac Pro
Apple on Wednesday refreshed
its Mac Pro line, adding a new
8-core behemoth using Intel's
new "Clovertown"
quad-core Xeon processors.
Also, a new quad-core model
was introduced...
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04.04.2007AMD Looks to Quad-Core
Opterons
AMD introduced its
next-generation Opteron
processor on Tuesday, complete
with a redesign of the server
chip that would allow the
chipmaker to natively upgrade
it to quad-core capability...
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15.08.2006Intel Ships High-End Quad Core Chips
Intel began the multi-core era
by beating AMD to the punch by
releasing its first quad-core
chips for high-end
workstations and servers. Two
families would sport the
architecture: the Intel Xeon
5300 series processors, and
the Intel Core 2 Extreme
QX6700...
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14.11.2006Intel planning quad-core notebook CPUs for 3Q08
Intel is going to launch eleven 45nm dual-core CPUs for notebooks in the first half of next year, and the company is also planning to launch quad-core
versions in the third quarter, according to sources at motherboard makers.
Intel will launch a 45nm quad-core notebook CPU
codenamed Penryn QC comprised of two Penryn cores in a multi-chip package. The CPU will adopt Socket P (35mm × 35mm) and have 12MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz
FSB and 45W maximum TDP.
Initially the Penryn QC will only appear in the Core 2 Extreme series and most Montevina platform
notebooks will not support the quad-core CPU, added the sources...
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19.09.2007Demand for Quad-Core Processors Accelerating Intel
After a relatively slow start quad-core processors are beginning to rapidly gain popularity among various customers. Paul Otellini, chief executive of
Intel Corp. said during a conference with financial analysts on Tuesday that shipments of chips with four processing engines topped three million
units last quarter.
We launched our first quad-core processor in November of last year, and by the
second quarter
had shipped our first million units. With demand for our quad-core products accelerating, we shipped over 2 million units in the third quarter
alone. We now offer over 20 unique quad-core processor designs, said Mr. Otellini during the conference call with financial analysts.
Growing demand towards quad-core microprocessor is a result of relatively moderate pricing on them, which begins at $266 for Intel Core 2
Quad Q6600 as well as availability of software that takes advantage of multi-core chips.
winbeta.org - 18.10.2007
Intel ships 1 million quad-core CPUs
Intel has shipped more than 1
million quad-core Xeon 5300
microprocessors since
introducing them in November
2006, meeting a goal announced
by company executives earlier
this year.
"We have
shipped more than 1 million so
far," said Danny Cheung, an
Intel spokesman in Singapore.
The millionth quad-core Xeon
chip was shipped earlier this
month, he said.
Intel's quad-core Xeon
5300 series, also known by the
code name Clovertown, was
released last November. The
chips helped lead the
company's recovery in the
server chip market, taking
share away from rival Advanced
Micro Devices (AMD). ..
winbeta.org - 29.06.2007
AMD Plans to Ship Hundreds of Thousand Quad-Core Chips This Quarter
Advanced Micro Devices was struggling to deliver its quad-core processors onto the market for many months, but when the worlds second largest maker of
x86 central processing units (CPUs) finally managed to introduce its quad-core chips, it turned out that demand exceeds AMDs supplies, the chipmaker
admitted. Still, AMD hopes to improve its quad-core shipments sometime in November.
While our initial production ramp of
quad-core Opterons has been slower than anticipated, we expect quad-core Opteron will be widely available by the middle of this quarter; and, we
expect to ship hundreds of thousands of quad-core processors this quarter into the server and desktop segments, said Dirk Meyer, chief operating
officer of AMD, during the companys quarterly conference call with financial analysts.
AMD formally unveiled its quad-core server
processors on September 10 and since then a number of observers noted that the new chips are not really widely available. In fact, it is not
surprising, as the company shipped less than a hundred of thousand quad-core processors for mainstream servers during its third quarter that ends on
the first of October, which means that revenue shipments of quad-core chips that started in mid-August were not really significant.
winbeta.org - 19.10.2007
Intel Seeks to Upstage AMD 'Barcelona' with Quad-Core 'Tigerton'
The fact that AMD plans to unveil its quad-core Opteron server processor on Monday is the worst kept secret since rumors yesterday that Apple CEO
Steve Jobs would unveil something having to do with iPods today. What has come as a surprise is that Intel decided not to wait to let AMD have its day
before releasing some initial specifications for its forthcoming "Tigerton" class Xeon MP quad-core server processors...
betanews.com - 06.09.2007
Intel Announces Quad-Core
Processor
At an early morning keynote
address to open the
semi-annual Intel Developers'
Forum in San Francisco, CEO
Paul Otellini confirmed that a
Core 2 Extreme quad-core
processor is coming this
November for the enthusiast
segment of the PC market. But
can his performance gain
estimates possibly be correct?..
betanews.com - 27.09.2006
Dell Adds Intel Core 2 Quad, AMD Athlon 64 X2s to Lineup
Dell confirmed it's readying
Core 2 Quad-based desktop
systems and quad-core
Xeon-based server systems. The
news comes just hours after
the official announcement of
the addition of AMD Athlon 64
X2s to the company's
OptiPlex, completing the
permeation of AMD processors
throughout the Dell product
catalog...
betanews.com - 09.11.2006
Triple-core and quad-core processors show up in sub-$600 PCs
The competition between AMD and Intel may appear to have calmed down a bit over recent months, but the retail market shows every sign that a new
battle has begun: Following the dual-core fight, it now appears that triple-cores in fact are increasing the pressure on dual-core PCs and quad-core
PCs have officially arrived in the mainstream.
For about half a year it seemed like entry-level quad-core PCs were stuck in the
$800 to $1000 range, with Intels Core 2 Quad Q6600 controlling supply and demand. But suddenly we are seeing a whole new dynamic in this market. Large
retail chains are selling what we would consider cheap multi-core processor systems that are competing with some aging dual-core systems still in
inventory and are pushing more up-to-date dual-core PCs below $500 and even into the sub-$300 segment.
winbeta.org - 22.04.2008
AMD Shows Off More Quad-Core Server Processor Benchmark Results
Advanced Micro Devices
recently demonstrated more
test results of its quad-core
code-named Barcelona
processors for servers, which
once again confirmed the
potential of its new chips,
but also rose questions
whether the current
implementation of the product
can beat the competing Intel
Xeon offerings hands down.
The new quad-core AMD
Opteron Barcelona processors
at 2.60GHz can deliver 21%
performance gain compared to
quad-core Intel Xeon 5355
(2.66GHz) in SPECint_rate2006
and 50% speed improvement over
Intel Xeon 5355 in
SPECfp_rate2006 benchmarks.
The integer and floating point
benchmarks results of AMDs
code-named Barcelona imply
that the new product by AMD is
considerably faster compared
to Intels quad-core chip at
the same clock-speed.
Unfortunately, Barcelonas
test results are estimated
performance of the chip at
2.60GHz based on internal AMD
emulations, whereas the first
quad-core processors from AMD
due to be available in
September will only hit
frequencies of up to 2.0GHz.
Meanwhile, Intel Corp. plans
to release its quad-core Intel
Xeon X5365 (3.0GHz) chip
towards September as well,
whereas no quad-core AMD
Opteron products with higher
than 2.0GHz clock-speeds are
projected until Q4 2007...
winbeta.org - 03.07.2007
Gateway to Bring Quad-Core to Retail
Saying it was the first major
manufacturer to do so, Gateway
announced Tuesday that it will
offer at retail a quad-core
system through both select
online and brick-and-mortar
retailers...
betanews.com - 01.05.2007
AMD delays more CPU rollouts, this time quad-core Phenoms
AMD has delayed rollouts of its higher-speed enthusiast level quad-core CPUs for at least one quarter...
betanews.com - 12.01.2008
Intel Prices "Penryn" Xeons
Intels latest roadmap reveals
pricing for its upcoming
Penryn-based Xeon DP
processors. The costs for
Penryn-based Xeon DP
processors start at $177 and
top out at $1,172.
Intel has two Penryn-based
quad-core Xeon DP processors
under $300. The quad-core Xeon
DP E5405 starts out at $209.
The $209 price tag yields a
quad-core Xeon DP processor
clocked in the 2.0 GHz range,
but below 2.33 GHz, with 12MB
of L2 cache. Putting forth an
extra $47 gets you the
quad-core Xeon DP E5410 with
its 2.33 GHz clock speed.
As the clock speed
increases, the price gaps
between quad-core Xeon models
get larger. Intel prices the
2.50 GHz quad-core Xeon DP
E5420 at $316. Stepping up to
the next speed-bin comes at a
$139 cost, for the 2.66 GHz
quad-core Xeon E5430. The
quad-core Xeon DP E5440 and
its 2.83 GHz clock speed comes
in at $690 -- $235 more than
the E5430 with a 170 MHz lower
clock speed.
winbeta.org - 18.07.2007
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review: Quad Core is here!
Since the release of Intel's
Conroe micro-architecture, the
company has been making waves,
massive waves. In terms of
performance, Intel washed away
main competitor AMD, and they
have continued to do so during
the past three months with the
success of their Core 2 Duo
and Extreme processor
series.
Step
aside dual-core, it is now the
time of the quad-core and you
better believe it. The new
quad-core series consists of
the Core 2 Quad Q6600 and the
Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Both
feature a dual 4MB L2 cache,
operate on a 1066MHz FSB, and
have a thermal output of 130
watts. However, the Core 2
Quad Q6600 is not scheduled
for release until early next
year, and so today we will be
looking at the more powerful
Core 2 Extreme QX6700 version,
which Intel had promised to
make available this month,
humming along to the tune of
just 2.66GHz using a cool 1.34
volts of power.
The very same technologies
that made the Conroe so
powerful are all included in
the new Kentsfield
architecture. In fact, there
are no new additions, so it is
merely a quad-core version of
the Conroe, but of course this
is hardly a bad thing. So how
does the Quad Core QX6700
performs? Read on and find
out.
neowin.net - 02.11.2006
Intel cuts price of quad-core Q6700 by 50%
In move that will likely hit AMD's bottom line, Intel has cut the prices of fourteen processors. The most dramatic cut - the Q6700, the price of
which has been slashed by 50%.
Intel cuts price of quad-core Q6700 by 50%The quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon X3230 also has its price
slashed by 50% (was $530, now $266).
The 2.66GHz quad-core Q6700 now sells for $266, down from $530. This price point was
previously occupied by the entry-level 2.4GHz Q6600. The Q6700 now represents the best bang-for-the-buck quad-core processor available.
winbeta.org - 22.04.2008
