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Although the new Sandy Bridge architecture may not be revolutionary, it is a much improved version of Nehalem as it seems to do everything a little better. When compared to the Clarkdale Core i5 661 ...

The second generation Core The name of the fastest Sandy Bridge is Core i7 2600K and we can give you an inside in the new naming scheme. First of all… The second generation Core The name of the ...

The Sandy Bridge-E launch lineup consists of three processors. King of the hill is the Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition, a fully unlocked chip featuring 6 cores with Hyper-Threading for 12 thread support ...

Intel's latest and greatest desktop processor technology now resides in two Sandy Bridge-E chips launched just the other day. The Core i7 3930K CPU sits below the Core i7 3960X in the pecking order, ...

So you've seen Sandy Bridge's mojo and want one. They start at below £100 and have both CPU and GPU goodness baked into each and every chip. Good deal, right? Trouble is, Intel sees the introduction ...

There are some differences between the Sandy Bridge-E 3960X and the new Ivy Bridge 4960X that go beyond the 22nm die shrink. When Intel built the SNB-E, it took an eight-core Xeon and fused off two of ...

The funny thing about legendary chips is that it's not always clear at launch which CPUs will go on to power enthusiast systems for years to come. Intel's Sandy Bridge, like the Celeron 300A of old, ...

I want a PC that performs well in every regard. It needs to be the decathlete of the computing world, a high-performance gaming rig capable of running Windows on at least two displays while handling ...

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