This time we'd like to offer you the summarized test results of as many as 71 processors. This generally marks the end of the year, not the end of another test method's life cycle (like the last time). We believe this summary contains all important pro...

If you have between USD 115 and USD 120 to spend on a CPU, you have two choices, the Athlon II X4 640 (which is a quad-core CPU running at 3 GHz) or the Core i3 530 (which is a dual-core CPU running at 2.93 GHz). Which one should you buy? That is what ...

While a comparable AMD system is a tad cheaper, AMD does not cripple it's chipset and CPUs as much as Intel does. By cost per performance the performance as you have seen is on par, even hyperthreading on the i3 does work well. What is surprising, AMD can cope with Intel even in idle power consumption. As you can see, Intel and AMD are pretty close, but wit..

At the conclusion of my first Clarkdale article I stated this:The exception to this?  Extreme low cost requirements.  You can get aCore i3 processor for $113 that will give you similar levels of CPUperformance but without the Turbo Mode features.  You sti...

Intel made significant waves last month when it released its Clarkdale and Arrandale lines of desktop and notebook processors. The chips, the latest mainstream revision of Intel's Nehalem architecture (which was introduced in 2008), were the first to i...

The Core i3-530 can't keep up with AMD's similarly priced, quad-core Athlon II X4 635, but it does offer good performance and an opportunity to upgrade to Intel's faster chips down the road. ...

Intel continues the tradition of releasing of weaker models of their current CPU generation right after a serie of the most representative models, so now we finally have Core i3, the weakest but the most attractive CPU of the Nehalem architecture. As b...

Intel's Core i3 530 is an interesting, low to mid-range processor. Intel's Clarkdale family was just introduced earlier this month, but it will work with recent Linux distributions and should work particularly well with the distributions coming around...

When we reviewed the Core i5 600 series processors we felt that they are really great dual-core processors. However we had a bit of a weird underbelly feeling due to its price level (which is a tad high we feel). That actually might be hindering the C...

I like the Core i3 530. It's the first real alternative Intel offers to AMD's Phenom II X2 and Athlon II X4 processors. And dare I say that it's perfectly competitive? With Clarkdale I get the feeling that Intel is actually trying to compete with AMD, ins...

The Clarkdale Core i5 and Core i3 CPUs are worthy successors to the Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo and if you're looking to buy a new Intel system, there's really no way you ought to be looking at Core 2 chips any more, especially as the i3-530 expect...