Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

At long last, a new mainstream CPU generation is upon us. Last year's Core i7-900 series (Bloomfield) launch gave us our first taste of Intel's latest microarchitecture, but those CPUs were unashamedly high-end and expensive. What we have now is...

The Core i7-975 Extreme is Intel's new speed demon that has set a new benchmark in the desktop computing space. Clocked at 3.33 GHz, this CPU is a notch higher than the former most powerful mode

The new highest-end chip in Intel's Sandy Bridge line, the Core i7-2700K has all its predecessor's pluses and minuses—but offers only a slight increase on its speed.

Bumping up quad-core to the new 1333MHz FSB in the Core 2 Extreme QX6850 seems to boost performance, even with DDR2 memory; the price, though high, now seems rational.

Intel's new laptop dual-core chips don't match their desktop siblings' star performance.

The latest high-end processor family from Intel, the four-processor Core i7 CPU, introduces a number of architectural changes from the company's previous top-line models. For example, the chips speeds memory access by controlling it with onboard...

However, this processor does not support hyper-threading, meaning it can't run virtualized or logical instances of its four cores to double that effective power to eight cores. But because it supports up to 32GB of memory, that means the Core i5-2500...

Earlier this year, we had a look at INTEL's Core i7 980XE CPU which was quite the spectacle being that it was the company's first six core processor. On the other ...