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Getting Ready to Meet Intel Core 2 Duo: Core Microarchitecture Unleashed

[ 06/29/06 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

Internet is full of Conroe processors previews, and today we decided to contribute to the overall excitement. Our article contains all the info on Core microarchitecture that will give you to understand why AMD is going to have really hard times.

X-bit's Investigation: Data Transfer Rate between the Cores in Dual-Core Processors

[ 05/31/06 | by Yury Malich]

Today we are going to investigate in great detail the data transfer rates between the cores of dual-core processors as well as the efficiency of threads execution when working with different memory sections. Learn more about the secrets of the dual-core architectures from our in-depth article!

Socket AM2 Platform: DDR2 SDRAM Support from AMD

[ 05/22/06 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

We have finally got a chance to take a real close look at the long-anticipated Socket AM2 platform for AMD processors and the new core revision F for Athlon 64 processors that have now acquired DDR2-800 SDRAM support. Today we are going to discuss in great detail the peculiarities and performance of two newcomers: Athlon 64 FX-62 and Athlon 64 X2 5000+.

Intel Core Duo Overclocking Experience

[ 05/17/06 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

Thanks to AOpen i975Xa-YDG mainboard we managed to conduct a number of overclocking experiments on our Intel Core Duo T2600 processor. Overclocking proved to have significantly raised the performance of this mobile dual-core processor so that we could place it on the same level with the fastest Intel Pentium Extreme Edition and AMD Athlon 64 FX processors.