First, the hardware:<BR><BR>MB: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5<BR>CPU: Core i7 920 Nehalem<BR>SD Intel X25-E SLC SATA 32GB<BR>RAM: 12GB (6x2GB) GeIL DDR3 1333<BR>PSU: Fortron Everest 80Plus 700w<BR>GPU: eVGA ...

Now that the megahertz race has slowed down in the desktop processor world, the new race is all about cores. To that end, Intel just announced its first 10-core desktop CPU, the Core i7-6950X Extreme ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. This article is more than 9 years old. At Computex 2016 in ...

For the purposes of this article, we obtained Core i5 750 and Core i7 870 processors. To get a glimpse of their inner-workings, we first fired up the latest version of CPU-Z and snapped a few images ...

Intel’s first Core processors made their debut in 2006. At this point, children born in the same year are almost old enough to drink. Over a dozen generations of Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 ...

Just nine months after Intel released its 7th-generation desktop CPUs, the company is at it again with the 8th-generation Coffee Lake processors. They're essentially refreshes of the Kaby Lake ...