Intel E8500 CPU Review
In the world of CPUs (Central Processing Units) and motherboard chipsets Intel is the number one manufacturer and is the platform of choice for enthusiasts in the PC industry since the launch of the Core 2 series outshined the top CPUs at the time it was launched and they haven't looked back.
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24.3.2008 Intel E8500 CPU Review
In the world of CPUs (Central Processing Units) and motherboard chipsets Intel is the number one manufacturer and is the platform of choice for enthusiasts in the PC industry since the launch of the Core 2 series outshined the top CPUs at the time it was launched and they haven't looked back.
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24.3.2008 CPU-Z 1.42
CPU-Z is a tiny freeware application that provides information on your current processor (including voltages, clock speeds and cache), the mainboard and memory.
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25.11.2007 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 Intel CPU bugs
Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting hisKris Kaspersky research on remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs at the upcoming Hack in the Box Security Conference in Malaysia.
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15.7.2008 AMD Developing Hybrid CPU/GPU
In addition to the snazzy new website launched by AMD/ATI today, the chipmaker announced that they are developing a hybrid CPU/GPU system dubbed 'Fusion' for release in late 2008/early 2009.
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25.10.2006 Beyond dual core: 2007 desktop CPU road map
What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled, and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) had analysts, journalists, IT pros, and enthusiasts all gushing with praise for a bright new multitasking future.
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2.1.2007 Intel to launch new Core 2 Extreme CPU for Skulltrail platform
Intel is planning to launch a new desktop processor for its upcoming Skulltrail motherboard, a high-end enthusiast and gaming platform, according to sources at motherboard makers.
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16.10.2007 Microsoft Makes Vista SP1 Play Nice with the VIA 64-bit CPU
Even though the processor market is dominated by Intel, with AMD struggling to expand its elbow room, new players are able to find a little room to breathe.
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1.7.2008 Vista SP1 with Antivirus Installed on Multiple CPU Systems Eats All Resources
Microsoft has warned customers of a problem affecting both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM/SP1, where the two operating systems in combination with some antivirus software, and running on machines with multiple processors, can eat all the system resources available to them.
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10.8.2009Intel E8500 Core2 Duo CPU Review
The E8500 is the fastest Core 2 Duo solution on the market with the clock speed set at 3.16GHz, fully 266MHz higher than the next fastest E series
CPU. For a MSRP on the Intel CPU price list of $266 this makes an affordable solution for those not wanting to spend $999 on an Intel CPU like
the QX9770 that’s upcoming. Dual Core CPUs like the E8500 are excellent choices for the everyday user.
The E8500 also overclocks
like a beast reaching 4.389 GHz, a nearly 40% overclock on normal air-cooling. Other people have reached over 4.5GHz on theirs. Dual Core processors
still have a market as only the Q6600 Core 2 Quad CPU reaches this level of price but performance on the E8500 beats that CPU in many cases.
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24.03.2008Intel denies new iMac has new 'Montevina' platform
Is it a first peek at an entirely new class of Intel CPU that Apple is offering in its latest refresh of iMacs, or is it an older class of CPU that is
being overclocked at customers' requests? Intel is indicating that the iMac's new high-end CPU is neither...
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30.04.2008How Many CPU Cores Do You Need?
Sure, you can buy a quad-core CPU... but do you need one? Software has come a long way to support multi-threading since the first multi-core CPUs were
released, but how much better are four CPU cores than one, two, or three?
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30.04.2009Intel to Show Off 1 TFlop, 80-core CPU
At a meeting of the
International Solid-State
Circuits Conference in Santa
Clara later this afternoon,
engineers from Intel are
slated to demonstrate a
working version of a
conceptual CPU. As promised
during the last Intel
Developers' Forum, this
concept CPU will incorporate
80 cores using an experimental
"network-on-a-chip"
architecture...
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13.02.2007MultiGPU Update: Finding the True Halo with 4-way
AnandTech: This marks the final planned installment of our multiGPU exploration. We may (or may not) publish a follow up that looks into CPU scaling
across all these parts. What we believe we'll find is that the single GPU solutions will not be anywhere near as significantly impacted as multiGPU
solutions which more often hit CPU and other system limitations. We aren't guaranteeing that we'll be publishing the CPU scaling article because we
still have some testing to run and this editor is soon to be the father of a second child. We will be working on completing our testing, and whether
or not we are able to round this series out with a CPU scaling follow up, we will definitely be exploring CPU scaling further in future articles.
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01.03.2009AMD confirms six-core Thuban CPU
AMD has confirmed that it will be releasing a six core (or hexa-core) CPU in 2010. While it was speculated that this would happen, AMD had not
confirmed that such a product existed until yesterday. The biggest news about the upcoming CPU is that it will be backwards compatible with AM3 and
AM2+ motherboards. An AMD spokesperson said that "
are all about platform longevity and long-lived upgrade paths," which is a direct attack at
Intel who currently has three different socket infrastructures on its desktop computers; all of which are incompatible, according to MaximumPC.com.
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neowin.net - 22.09.2009
Intel Core 2 Duo 45nm Wolfdale vs. 65nm Conroe
It was back in July 2006 when we got our first look at the then brand new Core 2 Duo processor technology. The processor code-named 'Conroe'
was initially released in four different flavors ranging from the E6300 (1.86GHz) all the way up to the E6700 model running at 2.66GHz, and from the
get go we knew Intel had a winner on its hands.
But for sometime now we've been waiting for Intel to move on to a more efficient and
highly hyped 45nm fabrication technology, which was released just last month. The new 45nm Wolfdale line-up includes the E8200 (2.66GHz), E8400
(3.00GHz) and E8500 (3.16GHz) processors that are expected to operate at lower temperatures - and thus reduce fan noise - as well as receive newer
SSE4.1 instructions and ship with a larger 6MB L2 cache.
It should not take pages of benchmark results to convince you that the E8500 is a
better buy than the E6850 as that clearly is the case. However, those currently in possession of an E6000 series processor or even older Intel or AMD
processors, may still be quite interested to see how much faster these new E8000 series CPUs are, and if they are worth upgrading to. The non-race is
on then!
neowin.net - 02.02.2008
Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler Sneak Peek
Thermaltake will be bringing you the latest technology and products at CES, America’s biggest Consumer Electronics Show in 2008! After the news
about the first time exposure of Thermaltake ESA products at the show, Thermaltake will also be live demonstrating the new DuOrb CPU cooler that has
long been anticipated.
The DuOrb CPU universal cooler has followed the design concept that made the great DuOrb VGA cooler. With two
independent heat radiating area, this twin fan cooler cools twice as fast and efficient than the ordinary CPU coolers. Moreover, the Dual-flow created
by the fans not only take the heat away from the CPU, but wider coverage of the two fans cool the CPU surrounding chipsets and RAM area at the same
time! Adding up the all copper construction of 6 heatpipes, fins and mirror coating base, DuOrb CPU not only delivers maximum performance, but the
beautiful cooper shine, the red-blue fan lights and the infinite shape also deliver superb aesthetic and style for the owners.
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neowin.net - 08.01.2008
What would NVidia want with a CPU company?
There may be an actual window of opportunity for graphics chip producer NVidia to acquire some x86 CPU design expertise and production prowess. But as
In-Stat's Jim McGregor told us, there are reasons why NVidia + Via wouldn't work...
betanews.com - 20.03.2008
Mobo makers: AMD???s Socket M2
to simplify next-generation
CPU
Advanced Micro Devices
(AMD) plans to simplify its
90nm CPU platform with its
940-pin Socket M2 CPU design,
according to motherboard
makers. As Intel schedules to
unify desktop PC- and
notebook-use processors in the
second half of 2006, AMD is
looking to standardize a full
CPU line for entry-level,
middle-range and high-end
segments, indicated the
makers.
AM
D Taiwan declined to comment
on the
report.
AMD???s
Socket M2 CPU line will
originally target the high-end
market, the makers said,
noting that the chip vendor
has informed them that the
940-pin platform will also be
released for the mainstream
and entry-level segments next
year. AMD is now delivering
samples of the next-generation
CPU to its downstream
customers, the makers
added.
During the
platform migration, products
that support the new Socket M2
and the old Socket 939 and 754
will still be on the market by
the end of 2006, according to
motherboard makers. The makers
expect that AMD???s CPU
standardization will help
reduce production and handling
costs...
winbeta.org - 24.10.2005
Intel shows off its X7900 CPU
Intel today officially debuted its long-awaited X7900 CPU. The Core 2 Duo Extreme dual-core processor was unveiled at the 2007 Games Convention in
Germany and is Intel's highest performing notebook CPU to date.
The X7900 is clocked at 2.8GHz, contains 4MB of L2 cache and
runs on an 800MHz FSB. Intel said the CPU also features mobile-specific power-saving features, that will help computer manufacturers to deliver more
energy-efficient and higher-performing designs.
It also claimed the X7900 will be exploited for high-end gaming and demanding
applications, both at home and when out and about. Its expected to appear within systems from the likes of Asus, Dell and Medion within the next four
weeks...
winbeta.org - 22.08.2007
IIS: Troubleshooting High CPU performance issues - Part 1
One of the types of performance problems that can occur with IIS web applications is when the process hosting the web application (in IIS6 in Worker
Process Isolation Mode it is w3wp.exe) spins up the CPU utilization of the server. Usually this is associated with end users experiencing a long
period of waiting for the web content to be displayed in their web browsers. This scenario is generally referred to as a "high CPU hang".
Troubleshooting high CPU hang problems can be done with two tools: Performance Monitor, and a debugger. We use Performance Monitor to get
a 'perfmon' log of the high cpu behavior, and we use the debugger to get a hang dump of the process that is spiking the cpu. Then we analyze the
info in the perfmon log and associate it with the info in the debug dump file. Debugging user-mode dumps is a whole topic in and of itself which I
won't cover in depth here. Instead the emphasis here is on getting the right data at the right time to actually analyse. In Part 2 of this topic
I'll go through a sample analysis of a high CPU scenario.
winbeta.org - 07.12.2007
AMD intros low power Shanghai CPU
With its 45nm production process now in full swing, AMD has announced the release of a low power variant of its popular Shanghai (Opteron) Server
CPU. The "energy efficient" Shanghai sips just 55 watts ACP (AMD's own energy rating) compared to 75watts of a standard Shanghai and is
designed to help meet the industry's rising demand for low power, cost-saving data center technology and increased virtualization performance.
The new CPU's range from 2.1 GHz – 2.3 GHz. They all have 4 cores and feature 512 KB of L2 cache per core and 6 MB L3 shared cache.
That's three times as much as in the last generation Barcelona Server CPU.
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neowin.net - 26.01.2009
Intel slashes quad-core CPU prices across the board
This morning, an Intel spokesperson confirmed to Betanews that the company has made drastic cuts in its CPU prices for 1,000-unit shipments, effective
immediately. They include a 40% slash on its top-of-the-line processor...
betanews.com - 20.01.2009
Mainstream 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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neowin.net - 11.09.2009
Sony Ericsson and ARM announce multi-core mobile CPU
In a world where smartphones are becoming more and more featured, it left one to wonder how it would take before the devices went the way of the
personal computer a picked up another core or three. Wonder no more, as Sony Ericsson and ARM have announced the world's first multi-core (or,
SMP, Symmetric Multi Processing) CPU for mobiles. This new CPU will be running an a device at a private event, with Symbian OS installed, at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This new developments means the future Sony Ericsson phones (and future phones in general) will be able to run
more applications at once, whilst reducing the overall power consumption.
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neowin.net - 17.02.2009
Intel subpoenaed by FTC over CPU business practices
Though the US Federal Trade Commission has yet to issue a statement as of 1:30 pm EDT, Intel has acknowledged it has received a subpoena from the FTC,
effectively formalizing its inquiry into Intel's US business practices in the CPU market...
betanews.com - 06.06.2008
Put your idle CPU to good use: volunteer computing options
Let's face it; supercomputers are by no means cheap and accessible to all. This isn't much of an issue for the average user as there are rare
instances in which they would need hundreds of CPU's or terabytes of RAM (perhaps those who would like to play GTA4 on their PC), but for a
research institution that needs to process and calculate extreme amounts of data, this becomes an issue. This is where distributed computing offers a
solution. Consider the following: The 'Centralized Server' is comparable to a boss, or 'slave-master'. The Job of the Centralized
Server is three-fold: First, it sends you a 'work-unit'. A 'work-unit' is a set of calculations for your CPU to complete.
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neowin.net - 27.12.2008
AMD: CPU/GPU 'Fusion' May Be More Gradual, Past 2009
During a Webcast Friday
afternoon, AMD executive vice
president Henri Richard told
BetaNews that, although one of
the goals of its
"Fusion" project
remains to merge GPU
pipelining with CPU multicore
architecture, the first few
iterations may be limited to
getting the two chips to share
the same die and conserve
power, for now...
betanews.com - 07.05.2007
Intel explains new Core i3, i5 and i7 CPU branding
On Wednesday, Intel posted a statement on their website explaining how their branding will look in the future; as CNET reports, the hardware company
will be splitting their Core CPU range into three categories: i3, i5 and i7, each different tiers of performance. As you can imagine, the new Core i3
range will be the lower performance, the i5 will be mid-range, and the i7 will be reserved for maximum speed.
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neowin.net - 20.06.2009
