by Rob Williams on June 5, 2006 in Processors If you are looking to upgrade to a dual core rig, but want to do it cheaply, then Intels 8** series may be for you. We are taking a look at the 820 D, a 2 ...

AMD's Athlon 64 X2 3800+ is an affordable entry-level dual core processor. But how does it match up to Intel's equivalent Pentium D? We have the benchmarks.

Intel’s last Pentium-branded product launches happened mid last year, with the “Presler” core based Pentium-D processors hitting the market at speeds in excess of 3.0 GHz.

On April 4th, Intel delivered its first dual-core Pentium offering in the form of the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 840. AMD was soon to follow, on May 9th, releasing its dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4800+.

Intel was unable to design a new memory bus in time for the dual-core chip, so it kept the same bus structure used by older Pentium 4 chips, Douglas said at the conference at Stanford University ...

The least-expensive Quad-Core to purchase right now is $193, and that’s at lower frequencies than the Pentium we’re looking at here, but with the same cache. The FSB is higher, but our E5200 is ...

However, Intel's product change notice will still leave many of its older dual-core chips in place. When the 3.0-GHz Pentium D 830 and 3.2-GHz Pentium D 840 are discontinued, the 8XX line will ...

Intel announced the launch of its new Pentium D dual-core processor, as well as the accompanying 945 chipset, this past Thursday. During the launch, Intel failed to talk about the new digital rights ...

Both servers can run on three different Intel chips including a 2.54GHz Celeron, a Pentium 4 and the latest Pentium D dual-core processor.

Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955 Intel's new second-generation dual-core chip draws less power, leaving the door open for system builders to use it in new desktop designs.

Dell's PowerEdge SC430 will come in a variety of system configurations including those based on a 3-GHz or 3.2-GHz Intel Pentium D dual-core processor, Golden said.