New Stock Cooler for Intel Gulftown CPU

Intel retail boxed processors always come packed with a heatsink and fan. While these heatsinks are normally adequate for normal use they are normally no use if you want to overclcock your system or run it as silent as possible. Those serious about keeping their hot chips cool will opt for aftermarket solutions. For the…

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Intel “Light Peak” Super Cables

The processor giant Intel have recently shown a development in high speed optical cables to transfer data from your favourite computer or gadget appliances. “Light Peak” as it’s known works better than your standard copper wired cables due to the fact it uses fibre optic cables instead which can deliver 10Gb/s of bandwith with the…

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BMW and Mercedes to use Intel Atom Infotainment Systems

While cars have use computer systems for quite a while it looks like the plan to integrate Intel’s consumer chip, the Atom, into cars such as the BMW and Mercedes is a sign of truly ubiquitous computing. BMW and Mercedes-Benz expect to get the units in cars sometime in 2012. Mercedes-Benz will make the systems…

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Intel 1.73GHz Core i7-820 QM mobile CPU

Intel’s Core i7 has been a huge hit with the enthusiast market, it is unquestionably the best range of CPUs out for desktop computing today. Intel are now hoping to bring some of that success to the laptop market with the mid-range quad-core 1.73GHz i7-820QM. This quad core CPU is built on the 45nm fabrication…

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Intel 32-nm Westmere CPU Wafer

It has only been a few days since Intel launched the new Lynnfield line of CPUs and now they are showing off the new Westmere CPU wafer. One of the main talking points about the Westmere chips is that they use the 32nm fabrication process which is an industry first, and Intel have had to…

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