This 4.0 GHz chip, based on the 65 nm Presler architecture, was identified by an enthusiast who shared detailed photos and a CPU-Z screenshot confirming its specifications. However, the software ...

Intel Corp. is planning to introduce a faster front-side bus on an upcoming version of its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor that will help the company increase the performance of its chips by ...

for certain: with a price tag of more than $900, uptake will be considerably limited. The same is true, of course, for the Athlon 64 FX-51. In both cases, server class CPUs have been modified and ...

The Cinebench 2003 benchmark is an OpenGL 3D rendering performance test, based on the commercially available Cinema 4D application. This is a multi-threaded, multi-processor aware benchmark that ...

TL;DR: An ultra-rare Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 engineering sample, clocked at 4.0GHz, surfaced on Reddit, sparking interest as a possible employee loaner chip. This unreleased NetBurst ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Intel announced a new version of the Pentium 4 processor on Tuesday with an extra dose of cache, a ...

For this next batch of tests, we ran Kribibench v1.1, a 3D rendering benchmark produced by the folks at Adept Development. Kribibench is an SSE aware software renderer. A 3D model is rendered and ...

More multi-threaded goodness is to be found in Microsoft's Movie Maker 2.1, which ships with Windows XP SP2. The test here is to encode 417MB of DV footage into high-quality WMV. The resulting file is ...

Dual cores running at 3.73GHz and Hyper-Threading support are enough to give the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 top spot in our first media-encoding test. Note the 42-second performance benefit ...

Intel’s first dual-core processor will be available Monday from PC vendors such as Dell, Alienware and a few others, an Intel spokeswoman said Friday. The Pentium Extreme Edition 840 will become the ...