Rated: 92% (5 votes)
Loading ...Is Intel being too aggresive for, er, your own good?
Clive Webster
The pricing has just come out for the new 1,333MHz FSB Intel processors. And while I might have said in a previous blog that I’d give them a miss and wait for Penryn, the super-low prices have made me think again.
Let’s take the new 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo E6750. In testing this performed identically to the E6700 but could overclcok further. And it cost 40% less (at time of writing). Read more
Rated: 80% (2 votes)
Loading ...Is Intel being too aggressive for its own good?
Clive Webster
The next few months will see Intel release an avalanche of products, but there are so many that even the notorious Intel marketing machine can’t keep up. We were less than impressed with the lack of information flowing from Intel about the P35 chipset while reviewing the Asus P5K Deluxe and even more surprised when a new Pentium CPU turned up on Aria with absolutely no fanfare (or comment as to why the brand had been re-introduced, at time of writing) from Intel at all. This from a company which had the marketing power to foist NetBurst Pentium 4s and Pentium Ds on the world for years in surprisingly large quantities. Read more