Thorough Review of Intel Core i5-750

 

Intel’s Branding Plan

Intel announced its Intel Core i7 processor last November as the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs, which has helped the chip giant to consolidate its leading position in high-end processor market. However, the high pricing of Core i7 platform (X58 motherboard + triple channel DDR3 memory) is somewhat prohibitive for most consumers.

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Pentium E6500K Cracks 6GHz Mark!

 

The overclocker DFORDOG from Expreview forum has successfully overclocked Intel’s Pentium E6500K processor to a whopping 6GHz, which proves its great overclocking potential once again.

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Galaxy GeForce GTS250 Cool Edition Accelerator Detailed

 


Galaxy GeForce GTS250 1GB edition

Galaxy has recently introduced additions to its GeForce GTS 250 series, GTS250 1GB, 512MB and Cool Edition, whose greatest highlight is the adoption of new-generation cooling technology.

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AMD Takes Mobile Discrete Graphics Market Share Lead

 

AMD has just announced that according to the latest industry data, notebook manufacturers have chosen ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics processors to drive 53 percent of today’s discrete graphics notebooks.

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VTX Unveils an Overclocked Radeon HD 4870

 

Built by TUL corporation earlier this year, the young ATI brand VTX has now unveiled its first creation, a factory-overclocked Radeon HD 4870.

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Noctua Offers LGA1156 Mounting Kit for Free

 

Noctua, a well-known cooling solution provider from Austria, today announced the company will offer the new NM-I3 SecuFirm2 mounting kit, which is compatible with LGA775/1156/1366, for free to those who have purchased one of its CPU coolers.

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Zotac GTX260 Extreme to Reach Stores Early September

 

Earlier this month we did a quick test of Zotac GeForce GTX260 Extreme graphics card, and lots of users just can’t wait to grab it for an update.

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Asus P7P55 WS SuperComputer Mobo Specs Surface

 

Asus is gearing up to introduce the P7P55 series mobos, including a new SuperComputer-branded model, P5P55 WS SuperComputer.

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NiBiTor Version 5.2 Available for Download

 

NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) has been updated to version 5.2 which brings an expanded supported products list and a number of bug fixes.

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AMD’s DX11 Hardware Presented in Action

 

AMD demonstrated DirectX 11 hardware a couple of days ago, and the site PC Perspective has now updated their post with a video preview of DX11 in action. Read the rest of this entry »

NVIDIA Works on Dual GT300 Card?

 

NVIDIA is reportedly planning a dual GT300 card to confront with AMD’s dual RV870 card, trying to keep the GeForce GTX295 performance crown.

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Rivatuner V2.24B for MSI MOA 2009 Released

 

Guru3D has today unleashed the RivaTuner v2.24B, an intermediate release of RivaTuner inbetween v2.24 and v2.25 which is expected to be launched soon.

RivaTuner v2.24B including ForceWare 190.xx drivers is designed for MSI’s upcoming overclocking competition – MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2009, and you may download here.

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Xigmatek Preps LGA1156 Bracket for Intel’s Upcoming Platform

 

It appears that the cooling solution provider Xigmatek has been very well prepared for Intel’s upcoming Nehalem platform, with its newest LGA1156 bracket.

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Arctic Cooling Tries out Arctic Power Batteries

 

The Swiss thermal solution provider Arctic Cooling has today announced something interesting: Arctic Power, durable alkaline batteries in both AA and AAA size.

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AMD to Debut DirectX 11 Graphics Cards on September 10th

 

According to the slides leaked at QuakeCon 2009, AMD is gearing up to launch its Evergreen family of DirectX 11-supporting graphics cards next month. Actually, AMD showcased it to some lucky guys a few days ago.

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