If you have an overclocking-friendly board, well, that's a good idea for anyone intending to OC.<br><br>For whatever reason, overclocking Core 2's isn't nearly as consistent as, say, the old school ...

Summarising our thoughts on the Phenom 9600 first, AMD has seen Intel's desktop processor line-up transform from the ageing, slow Pentium to the Core-derived Duo and, a year ago, the Core 2 Quad.

The 9850 is a 2.5 GHz Quad Core built on 65 nanometer architecture, with 2 MB of L2 cache and a TDP of 125 watts. By comparison, the Q6600 has similar specs, running at 2.4 GHz with 8 MB of L2 and a ...

AMD and Intel currently have divergent views on how to architect a quad-core desktop processor. Intel's quad-core parts - for desktop systems as well as servers - are based on a pair of dual-core ...