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AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition |
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| Mon, March 29 2010 | 4:02PM | PermaLink |
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"Today we are looking at one of the processors from AMD's 2010 line up, designed to go up against Intel's Pentium dual cores at the important £75 inc. VAT price point. Intel would no doubt prefer us to pitch this chip against its Core i3 530, but as that processor costs 20% more that wouldn't be a fair comparison. In actual fact the closest contemporary competitor is the Pentium G6950, which also uses the Clarkdale core. Intel released this chip rather quietly obviously mindful that without blistering clock speeds the Clarkdale architecture isn't as competitive as it would like. Either chip can be snapped up for around £75 from the cheapest online sources."
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http://itshootout.com/r-336/amd-phenom-ii-x2-555-black-edition-review/
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Tech Report. |
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| Tue, November 09 2010 | 2:28PM | PermaLink |
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If you read our NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 Tech Report, you will
remember that it was at the GeForce GTS 450 launch that NVIDIA started
the rather bizarre scheme of giving their graphics cards pet names.
The GeForce GTX 480 was "The Tank", while the GeForce GTX 460 was "The
Hunter" and the GeForce GTS 450, "The Sniper". So what nickname did
NVIDIA give the new GeForce GTX 580?
We would have considered suitably macho ones like "The Titan", or "The
Behemoth". Okay, so those conjure up images of bulk and weight but
hey, this card is no lightweight, is it? In any case, the new NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 580 is still called "The Tank" but with "a weapons
upgrade, with some shiny new armor to go along with it!" Whatever that
means...
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http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=701
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