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 ...

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 ...

Both Dell machines shipped with an Intel Pentium D 840 dual-core CPU running at 3.2GHz with a 2MB onboard cache. Both also had 1GB of RAM installed for testing, although the 830 can handle 4GB ...

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.

A sample configuration running a dual-core 2.8-GHz Pentium D model 821 with 2 MB of Level 2 cache, a 945G chipset and 512 MB of DDR2, dual-channel, 533-MHz SDRAM costs $1,059.

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 ...

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 ...

Intel will not be able to ship more than 500,000 Pentium D dual-core processors this year, as demand will not pick up until 2006, sources with motherboard makers in Taiwan said yesterday. Save my ...