Written by
Nebojsa Todorovic
Friday, 09 September 2011 14:27
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 Whenever you’re willing to buy a new PC or upgrade your graphics card, there will be a colleague, neighbour or friend who’ll tell you that the CPU is going to be a bottleneck if you take a really strong graphics card. Truth be told, these claims are not without basis in fact, but lately, we’ve been under the impression that the issue has been overblown by far. In other words, how many people do you know who’ve actually tested a certain graphics card model with several CPUs and can back up their claims in fact? Certainly, there is a difference between various CPU generations, but how does a Core i3 cope with applications other than the CPU-intensive ones compared to Core i5? Is the price difference of 50€ a clever investment if the only thing you care about as far as performance goes is the number of frames per second?
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Written by
Nebojsa Todorovic
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 23:43
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 After the successful launch of the new APU generation, AMD has finally presented the cream of the crop of their product gamma - the A-series (codenamed Llano). Models from the A-series can be expected in portable PCs, all-in-one PCs, desktop configurations and similar devices which require a high level of performance, but are consumption-sensitive. The A-series APU contains three components that we’ve only been able to see separately thus far: the northbridge chip, the quad-core CPU and discreet DirectX 11 graphics, and all that at less than half the consumption of these three components when separated. Of course, packing all this onto a single piece of silicon was no easy task, making A-series the one with the largest APU surface of all Fusion platform products (228 m²) and the maximum consumption of 35 to 45 W.
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Written by
Marko Nesovic
Monday, 03 January 2011 17:31
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  Unlike our watches that tick-tock thirty times a minute, Intel has tweaked their clock so that it tick-tocks twice a year, in order to, among other things, remind us that it's time for improving existing technology. This year's “tock” brings us a new microarchitecture, codenamed Sandy Bridge. We've already covered the theoretical aspects of Sandy Bridge in two separate articles recently; well, perhaps not theoretical, but certainly without a tangible model in front of us to provide us with first-hand results. The previous articles were based on the information released to the public by Intel, as well as some that found their way out in spite of Intel's will. The time has finally come for us to see whether the words of Intel's representatives about energy-efficient performance, major advancements in the graphics field, Turbo Boost technology optimisation etc. ring true and are truly based on actual results.
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Written by
Vladimir Dimitrijevic
Saturday, 01 January 2011 21:30
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  We've recently tried to explain and clarify most of the novelties brought to us by Sandy Bridge CPUs in an article, according to the information that we'd been able to acquire. Naturally, there were a few grains that have remained a mystery until the actual CPUs were physically available to us, so let's have a look at those.
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Written by
Marko Nesovic
Wednesday, 22 December 2010 01:47
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 Although Intel still hasn't officially presented their new microarchitecture, as part of the successful Tick-Tock strategy, for those who just can't wait for the beginning of next year, we've decided to peek through the thick curtains obscuring Sandy Bridge. A good deal of information concerning the aforementioned microarchitecture is already readily available online, so we thought it might be a good idea to clarify what you should expect of it.
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Written by
Ivan Todorovic
Sunday, 05 September 2010 13:00
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  Do you remember the times when CPUs were chosen based on whether you were assembling a gaming PC, in which case you'd opt for cheaper Celerons and Durons, or a heavy workload PC, in which case you'd buy the more expensive Pentiums and Athlons? It came to our mind on multiple occasions during this test. Those days of single-core CPUs, when Megahertz were the only relevant thing, and the difference between home and professional models consisted in the difference in the quantity of cache memory, only served to underline the problems that modern-day users are facing when assembling a new PC. Is a tri-core CPU enough for current games, or should one go for a quad-core? Will the L3 cache play any role in game performance, or is an ordinary Athlon II enough? A weaker Core i7 and a cheaper P55/H55 motherboard, or a stronger one and an expensive X58 mobo? Who gives more bang for buck, Intel or AMD? Questions are many, responses come down to less-than-clear PC forum experts, and the buyer often feels underachieving, as if it were only a question of a few additional euros to build a significantly better PC. It came to a point where we considered indispensable to try and find everything we possibly could in the CPU department from dealers and retailers, and make them cross swords in the most common PC tasks.
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Written by
Djordje Kovacevic
Sunday, 09 May 2010 20:07
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  In the beginning of 2010, Intel presented their first CPUs manufactured in 32 nm lithography, therefore beginning the Tick phase. This refers to Intel’s development model, called Tick-Tock, designating two phases in development. The Tick phase means presenting a new manufacturing process developed on current architecture, whereas the following Tock phase means that Intel presents a completely new architecture.
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Written by
Marko Nesovic
Thursday, 29 April 2010 00:43
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  Not so long after Intel presented their new six-core model Core i7 980GX, taking the throne of the currently fastest desktop CPU, AMD presented us with their own solution - Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition. In parallel with the unveiling of this CPU, codenamed Thuban, AMD also presented the IT industry with the most powerful version of their current 890 chipset - 890FX. You will be able to read about this chipset in detail very soon, as well as its implementation on the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula model, serving as the perfect platform for juicing out maximum performance from the new six-core AMD CPU.
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Written by
Marko Nesovic
Thursday, 04 March 2010 21:17
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 Almost six months have passed since we first presented Athlon II quad-core CPUs on our site. In parallel with the 630 model, the cheapest 620 model was presented as well, threatening the competition severely with its price of under 100€ and bringing quad-core Phenom II derivatives closer to the mainstream segment. The popularity of these processors became evident quick after they were presented, and now we have the chance to review the latest member of the Athlon II X4 family, namely 635.
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Written by
Ivan Todorovic
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 17:51
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 A year and a half ago, Intel presented the market with its new and, as we were to see, rather significant processor oriented towards mobile devices. The CPUs codenamed Silverthorne, for the so-called mobile internet devices (MIDs), and Diamondville, for the ultra-portable PCs, miniature notebooks and nettops, were another step off the beaten path in Intel’s CPU development. Just like the company parted ways with the failures from the era of Pentium 4 with the Core 2 architecture, they made a few interesting moves in Atom development as well.
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