Intel has spent millions making their "Core" brand synonymous with high performance processing. In these days of the Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Core 2 Extreme, it’s pretty easy to find a ...

Dual core processors work best when software can run in parallel on them. So-called 'multithreaded applications' benefit from an additional CPU core because subroutines can be allocated to different ...

Another month passes and another couple of processors are released by either Intel or AMD. The last two months have been rather busy on the CPU front. Both rivals launched their own dual-core, ...

Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was ...

Intel has updated its price lists with a total of eight new low-end and mainstream Haswell processors. The new processors include four Core i3 and four Pentium branded chips. Two of the Core i3 and ...

What would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows PCs with Intel Pentium processors (and soon will likely be doing the same with Macs), but we've seen ...

We've already covered the worst CPUs ever built, so it seemed time to flip around and talk about the best ones. The question, of course, is how do we define "best?" In order to qualify for this ...

Intel ships the Pentium E2140 with a standard Socket-775 heatsink/fan cooling unit which looks identical to the Core 2 Duo cooling units we’ve seen in the past. However, since these processors don’t ...