It’s really hard where to place AMD processors nowadays. They used to be really popular among gamers, overclockers and net cafe owners since they offer the best bang for the buck. Even until now, AMD still holds that niche in the Philippines.
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Before the days when laptops are the common household computing device, the desktop enjoyed a lot of “upgrades” from HDD storage, to RAM and even processor. I remember the time when upgrading from a Pentium II 350MHz to a Pentium III 450MHz was such a huge difference.
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We’ve recently seen netbook manufacturers producing more low-cost netbooks that run on Meego OS. Suprisingly, these netbooks also have a relatively new Atom processor with it. — an Intel Atom N435. This processor still belongs to the Pine Trail family (45nm) and runs at a slower 1.33GHz.
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Intel Philippines lent us one of their newer rigs that comes with the new Sandy Bridge processor (an Intel Core i7 2600k) and paired it with an NVidia GeForce 570 GTX. It’s the first high-end system we’ve ever tested this year.
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We recently got to test two rigs — one from AMD and one from Intel. Both are the top of the heap in terms of the CPU. One is the AMD Phenom II 1090T and the other is Intel Core i7 Extreme 980X.
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Since Intel upgraded their Atom CPUs from N270 and N280 to the latest Atom N450 where they integrated the graphics chip into the CPU, we wondered if the new N450 performs better than N280. We check both with some benchmarks.
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Just weeks after the official launch of the new line of Intel Core i3 and i5 processors, they are now listed on major PC shops like Rising Sun Computers and PC Express.
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AMD is trying to regain some market share by introducing really affordable quad-core processors. One of them is the new Athlon II 620 running at 2.6GHz and dubbed as the cheapest 45nm quad-core processors today.
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We used the nVidia Ion platform from the HP Mini 311 and the Pine Trail platform from the new MSI Wind U135 we previewed at the Intel office and compared the two using their Windows Experience Index.
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In global conference call today at the Intel Philippines office, the company officially announced its new Atom processor — the Intel Atom N450 1.66GHz and Intel GMA 3150.
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