An anonymous source has told X-bit Labs that the launch of AMD’s FX Series CPUs has been delayed once again, this time to October. According to the article, AMD is planning to delay the release of their FX Series CPUs to mid-October according to the source. Although there wasn’t a specific reason pointed for the [...]

“Leaks” regarding AMD’s Bulldozer CPUs aren’t anything new but when the “leak” comes from a major company, Gigabyte in this case, then it is worth mentioning. On Gigabyte’s website, in a page regarding their motherboards CPU support list, the new AM3+ CPUs from AMD appear as support by their GA-990FXA-UD7 motherboard. The page features information [...]

Our friends over at GELID have just released their new “Gamer” series CPU Cooler, the GX-7. The GX-7 features 7 special positioned heat pipes, V-shaped aluminium fins, strategically positioned openings inside the heat sink and near the heat pipes, an unique design and support for dual fans. All this for better heat dissipation, more efficient [...]

According to this article at VR-Zone, the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge-E CPUs will be shipped without the stock cooler everyone is familiar, in fact there will be no cooler at all. Being the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors (3820/3930K/3960X) aimed for the enthusiast market this move actually makes sense since no enthusiast will maintain the [...]

According to this article on X-bit Labs AMD is considering to bundle some of their upcoming top of the line FX-Series CPUs with a Liquid Cooling solution. This “announcement” does not only benefit AMD’s projection on the market but also has a few advantages for the user. On the AMD side this move seems to [...]

Last month, there reports of Intel pushing its Sandy Bridge-E enthusiast desktop platform to 2011. It was originally scheduled for 2011, but was reportedly delayed to 2012 because of issues Intel was facing with its flagship desktop chipset, codenamed Patsburg-D. Intel will be launching Sandy Bridge-E this year, but the first wave of motherboards will [...]

Here are details of the first three models of Intel’s “Sandy Bridge-E” Core i7 processors in the LGA2011 package. Some of these details were made public as early as mid-April. It was then analyzed that Intel was driving two distinct lines of LGA2011 client processors: Enthusiast and Performance, and within Performance, there were BClk multiplier-unlocked [...]