Despite its 40 per cent higher price than the AMD machine, the Core-i5 2500K rig commands a clear advantage in terms of bangs for your buck. What's more, In just two CPU generations, Intel has ...

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The new Core i7 chips, which are part of Intel's new Sandy Bridge architecture, also include integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB of DDR3SDRAM shared with the main memory. Apple uses its own ...

Intel has today taken the wraps off of its eagerly-anticipated range of 2011 Sandy Bridge processors. The line up, consisting of a mammoth 29 launch models across desktop and mobile platforms, has ...

Intel claims Sandy Bridge processors are up to 42% faster for content creation and 50% faster in games compared to Westmere-based chips. This is perhaps the single largest performance improvement you ...

I actually experienced the exact same issue with my Windows 8 install on an ASRock CoreHT 252B Mini PC, which acts as my HTPC. Probably the same or similar as you, I'm outputting both video and audio ...

In order to test the impact of the L3 cache size, we got our hands on an MSI FR620 laptop equipped with an Intel Core i7-2620M CPU: a dual-core Sandy Bridge processor with 4MB of L3 cache - half that ...