While venturing through the BIOS on my brand spanking new EX58-UD5 based testbed, I stumbled across an option that gives one the ability to set the amount of cores they want running on the system. So, ...

There is no doubt in our minds that the Core i7 is a worthy successor of what was one of Intel's greatest processor series yet. Already the Core i7 has proven to be extremely powerful, as it easily ...

When a new processor makes its way into my testbed, I like to take the time to see what kind of performance increase the overclock we use day in and day out gives us when compared to its stock speed.

So before we dive into the architecture of Core i7, you probably want to know what processors are actually being launched today. It's actually a threefold of CPUs. Let's have a peek: Core i7 920 at ...

Judging just the processor alone, the Core i7 920 delivers excellent performance at a respectable price range of about $250 - $300. Even at stock speeds, it's a pretty good value, but when you throw ...

With the introduction of the new Intel Core i7 processor architecture, the company affectionately known as "Chipzilla" from Santa Clara has once again topped itself on the performance charts. Core i7 ...

Clearly moving to an on-die memory controller has paid dividends as the Core i7 920 squeezed out a memory bandwidth of 17GB/s in SiSoftware Sandra using nothing more than DDR3 memory running at ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

We've seen how the "Core" performance lies, but what about stretching the value of a new i7 920 purchase that much more? With an RRP of $284 it’s not exactly a Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 territory bargain, ...

Intel’s two new Core i7 CPUs (860 and 870) are mid-range counterparts to its top-of-the-line Core i7 900-series chips, and initial tests (using Intel’s new DP55KG motherboard) indicate their ...

When it comes to building a high-performance PC, at the moment there's just no competition for Intel's Core i7 CPUs; in comparison to Nehalem, however much tweaking AMD does to its K10 architecture, ...

It's not often that a reputable retailer is duped into passing on dodgy goods to customers, but it seems that Newegg managed to end up with counterfeit Intel Core i7 920 CPUs in its supply chain.