i'm thinking of getting a laptop on a low budget and there are 2 i'm looking at. both have pretty much the same specs except one has a p233mmx and the other a p2 233. is one faster than the other? how ...

If the Am286 represents AMD's first punch thrown in the x86 bout, the AM386 was the uppercut that followed. Released in 1991, the AM386 was another carbon-copy of Intel's 386 CPU, and once again it ...

The Pentium Pro is around now for several years and still it never made it to a best seller as its siblings Pentium, Pentium w/MMX and Pentium II. The main reason for that is and was its weakness with ...

The Brother Professor PII uses the new Intel Pentium II processors and a combination of P6 architecture, previously used in the Pentium Pro processor, and Intel's MMX technology. All expansion slots ...

Last night, I was sitting around thinking about Intel's forthcoming discrete GPU, codenamed "Larrabee." Specifically, I was thinking about how Larrabee will have lots of simple, in-order cores with a ...

Enthusiasts have been pushing the limits of silicon for as long as microprocessors have existed. Early overclocking endeavors involved soldering and replacing crystal clock oscillators, but that ...

Back in the dark ages (1995) Intel introduced P6 architecture for the very high-end market in the form of the Pentium pro processor. P6 has stayed its ground and has only just been superseded with the ...