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.

The Pentium-D 900 series is the next evolution in Intel's Dual-Core plans. The Pentium-D 900 offers a total of 2MB of L2 cache per core while also adding support for Virtualization. Thanks to an ...

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 ...

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 ...

New dual-core blades with updated software and virtualisation support will cut the cost of deploying a blade farm, ClearCube says Written by Colin Barker, Contributor June 26, 2006, 2:10 a.m. PT ...

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.

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.

Core i3 These CPUs are still dual-core but add Hyperthreading, which presents two logical processor cores to the operating system for every physical core. This can definitely help performance in ...

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.