Core 2 Duo

Overclocking Core 2 Duo: Revving Up an Extra Giga-Hurt, Painlessly

Those who tinker with sophisticated cooling technology can often overclock processors to extraordinary speeds, but the guys at TechSpot took a more practical approach. Using a rock-bottom-priced ($180) E6300 Core 2 Duo processor and a few simple parts, they raised its clock speed from 1.86GHz up to 3.03GHz without compromising stability. As a result, they…

Tech News Charlie White

Core 2 Duo Coming To Apple MacBooks Sept. 16?

File this under R for “Rumor”, but another Mac site is speculating that Apple will release updates to their laptop line come Sept. 16. The annual Paris Expo could be just the time for Apple to stick the recently released Core 2 Duo processors in their MacBooks and MacBook Pros, joining Toshiba, Dell, and Samsung…

Tech News Jason Chen

AOpen MiniPCs Will Use Core 2 Duo

While yesterday may have been the big unveiling of the Intel Core 2 Duo—also known as Merom—AOpen just announced that its MiniPC line of PCs (think of them almost as the PC’s Mac mini) will also be using Intel’s latest wunderchip. Both the MP945-X and the MP945-VXR will use the Merom processor. https://gizmodo.com/intel-core-duo-whassup-faster-197105 The MP945-VXR…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Shuttle SD37P2: Smallest Core 2 Duo Case Evar

Looking for a PC built around the speedy new Core 2 Duo processors from Intel, but don’t have much space? Shuttle may have the answer with the SD37P2 PC barebone system, which includes the motherboard and the case. The new system announced today in Europe supports all of the Core 2 Duo processors (including the…

Tech News Richard Baguley

Intel Core 2 Duo Laptops Last 5 Hours In Cross Country Flight

Intel set up their own internal publicity video to hype how power-efficient the new Core 2 Duos are. They set two employees on a cross country, West to East flight, to see how well the new C2Ds would perform compared to the old Core Duos an AMD Turion system. These guys did what most users…

Tech News Jason Chen

Intel Core 2 Duo News Roundup

We’ve had some Intel Core 2 Duo news today, starting with the bit about Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme shipping! https://gizmodo.com/intel-core-2-duo-core-2-extreme-ships-today-190238 Then there’s our hands-on with a custom version of the Dell Precision Workstation 390. The machine was pumped so full of goods it was almost four times the price of the basic…

Tech News Jason Chen

Dell XPS 410 With Core 2 Duo Reviewed (Verdict: The Opposite of Slow)

The XPS 410, with Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6600 inside, is one speedy entertainment machine. Although not thrifty by any means at $2,405, this unit comes with a 20-inch widescreen LCD and lots of gamer and power-user components inside. The GeForce7900 graphics card, dual TV Tuner, dual-port Firewire Card, and dual 320GB Serial ATA hard…

Tech News Jason Chen

Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme Ships Today

Intel launches its Core 2 Duo processors today, 10 in all, including the 64-bit Conroe (Core 2 Duo) and Conroe XE (Core 2 Extreme) for desktops. and 32-bit Merom for laptops All are dual-core processors that will initially be available in single socket configurations, which means that at first there won’t be dual processor/dual core…

Tech News Charlie White

Intel Core 2 Duos In, Puts Intel Back On Top

This year we’ve been hearing lots of the Core Duo, especially when it comes to the media and their loads of Apple laptop news. But now the reviews of the Core 2 Duos are in, and they’ve supplanted the Athlon 64 FX as the top pocessor out now. The results also show a significant advantage…

Tech News Jason Chen

Intel’s Next Trick: Quad Core Processors

On the heels of Intel’s release of its Xeon 5100 dual-core processors, more information has surfaced about Intel’s next-generation quad core processors due in the first quarter of 2007. The four-way processors, called “Clovertown” for servers and “Kentsfield” for desktops, are said to be power-hungry, sucking up 110 watts of power compared to the 80…

Tech News Charlie White

Faster and Cooler: Intel Releases Xeon 5011 Processor

Intel introduced its Xeon 5100 processor, a chip intended for servers that will double the performance of previous Xeons while using 40% less power. The processor, formerly codenamed Woodcrest, will be available in six different versions from 1.6GHz to 3GHz and will integrate a 4MB L2 cache. Pricing ranges from $209 for the 1.6GHz 5110,…

Tech News Charlie White

Intel to Ship Core 2 Duo Chips July 23

The chip wars are heating up with Intel planning the release of its Conroe processors for July 23. They’ll be called Core 2 Duo and there will be five different versions. The Core 2 Duo processors for the mainstream market will be numbered 6300 and 6400 and will run at clock speeds of 1.86GHz and…

Tech News Charlie White

Intel Names Next-Gen Chips: Core 2 Duo

Intel has decided to name its next-generation processor Core 2 Duo, so we can throw away those weird-sounding meaningless codenames such as Conroe (the desktop version) and Merom (the notebook version), and get on with the next version of Intel’s dual core chips. Keeping with this numerical naming scheme, Intel will also call its next…

Tech News Charlie White

Overclocking Core 2 Duo: Revving Up an Extra Giga-Hurt, Painlessly

Core 2 Duo Coming To Apple MacBooks Sept. 16?

AOpen MiniPCs Will Use Core 2 Duo

Shuttle SD37P2: Smallest Core 2 Duo Case Evar

Intel Core 2 Duo Laptops Last 5 Hours In Cross Country Flight

Intel Core 2 Duo News Roundup

Dell XPS 410 With Core 2 Duo Reviewed (Verdict: The Opposite of Slow)

Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme Ships Today

Intel Core 2 Duos In, Puts Intel Back On Top

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Faster and Cooler: Intel Releases Xeon 5011 Processor

Intel to Ship Core 2 Duo Chips July 23

Intel Names Next-Gen Chips: Core 2 Duo

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