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In Pictures: Top 10 performance desktop PCs

Intel's Sandy Bridge processors are still the popular kids on the block, but the new Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition has arrived, taking top honours on our performance PC benchmarks.

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MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics

A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing

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News about processors

Article | 24/05/2012 Smartphones with quad-core chips and 4G LTE coming soon
Quad-core processors have not yet been combined with 4G LTE in smartphones, but that could change soon.
Article | 22/05/2012 AMD aims for better graphics in casinos, hospitals with new chips
Advanced Micro Devices aims to improve the quality of high-definition video and 3D graphics on equipment in casinos and hospitals with its new R-serie...
Article | 15/05/2012 AMD undercutting Intel's ultrabook on price with new Trinity chips
Advanced Micro Devices hopes to provide thin-and-light laptops that are less expensive but equally speedy to Intel's ultrabooks with its new A-series ...
Article | 15/05/2012 Lenovo working with Intel on ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet
Lenovo is working with chip maker Intel on a future ThinkPad tablet based on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, a Lenovo executive said.
Article | 15/05/2012 Dell, IBM announce servers with new Intel Xeon chips
Dell and IBM announced servers with Intel's latest Xeon server chips, which will bring faster throughput and memory allowing servers to take on more c...

Tutorials about processors

Article | 13/08/2010 How to get more from a quad-core PC
QUESTION: My Windows 7 Home Premium computer has a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've not found any advantage to using four cores. How can I use...
Article | 1/07/2010 Part Three: Building a PC -- installing the CPU
This article is the third in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part three, click here.
Article | 28/06/2010 How to: Overclocking for newbies
Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: B...
Article | 23/06/2010 Chip Showdown: A guide to the best CPUs on the market
When you're shopping for a new PC, don't meekly settle for the default processor recommended by the configurator. Picking the right CPU is a personal ...

Features about processors

Article | 12/01/2011 ARM CEO: PC market not our target
Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS wo...
Article | 8/01/2011 Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?
Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forwar...
Article | 16/08/2010 Ways to share spare CPU cycles
A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worth...
Article | 7/07/2010 Intel breaks mold, poised to fill 'compute continuum' gaps
Chip manufacturer Intel is defying conventions and moving out of its established space in personal computing systems, and spreading their territory to...
Article | 18/02/2009 MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics
A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing