Depending on your view, PC gaming is dead or is the only way to game. Clearly, Intel is of the latter view, which is why the company chose to preview its new "Extreme Edition" CPU at the Game ...

Intel unveiled its newest flagship processor for the desktop market, the Core i7 980x Extreme. The CPU pushes the envelope by including six physical cores, and hyperthreading technology to virtualize ...

The Core i7 980X Extreme Edition is similar in a number of ways to Intel's former Core i7 flagship processor, the 975 Extreme Edition. Both processors operate at a 3.33GHz frequency, feature a 6.4GT/s ...

In case you hadn't noticed, Intel has been dominating the CPU scene ever since the Core 2 architecture popped out. The company followed up with the Core i7 (and more recently the Core i5/i3) and ...

The central processing unit (CPU) is the brain that powers all PCs. Intel and AMD form a near-perfect duopoly as far as CPUs for the consumer market are concerned. Based on the x86 architecture and ...

In May of 2005, both AMD and Intel delivered the world’s first desktop dual-core CPU’s, and since then, the processor technology and increase in performance from generation to generation has ...

Contest and survey are closed. Stay tuned for the winner! Last month, Intel did something rather impressive… it released the world’s FIRST six-core desktop processor. Yes, six cores, all in the form ...

Details of Intel's upcoming 6-core/12-thread Xeon (Gulftown) processor – and the CPU tipped to appear in the upcoming Apple Mac Pro refresh – have leaked, and while original predictions were that the ...

Today was the day that Intel PC partners could officially announce their support for the new i7-980X Extreme Edition six-core processor, and several companies have updated their product offerings, ...

It was as recently as December that Apple quietly bumped the specs of their Mac Pro line to use 3.33Ghz quad-core Xeon CPUs, but if ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and his sources are to be believed, ...

We'readvocates of a balanced PC such that no individual component is vastly more expensive than another. The good news on the CPU front is that a capable dual-core chip can be purchased for £80 and a ...

SPECviewperf v10 doesn't seem to take any advantage of the extra pair of cores, as the 980X Extreme Edition performed pretty much on par with the other Core i7 processors in both Maya and 3dsMax tests ...