There are now several quad-core mobile workstations for work, but Asus is laying claim to the first quad-core laptop designed purely for play. This week it announced that the G71 "Republic of Gamers," ...

Intel will ship quad-core processors in November for servers and gaming PCs, accelerating its effort to regain momentum in sales of power-efficient chips. Thirteen vendors have already announced plans ...

Intel Corp. has launched a family of quad-core processors, hoping to take back its crumbling share of the server market and win users in the trendy gaming PC segment. The Xeon 5300 and Core 2 Extreme ...

As our benchmark results and power consumption tests have shown, Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q9300 represents a solid upgrade over the Core 2 Quad Q6600, which we’ve come to know and love. Even though the ...

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It was not too long ago that the web was buzzing with dual-core versus quad-core debates. Sides were taken and lines were drawn. At that time, one of the main arguments against quad-core processors ...

The line between Ultrabooks and powerful laptops may be disappearing. Intel is evidently readying a quad-core i5 processor that even a new Surface could use. When you purchase through links on our ...

Games have barely adapted to dual-core processors, needless to say quad-core does very little for a performance boost in this respect. The Q6600 performed much the same as the X6800 and E6700. If you ...

Need a portable gaming rig? Take a look at this 15.6-inch Alienware 15 R2 from Dell. It can handle high-res gaming while you're away from home, and when you get back, you can get the full experience ...

Intel has unwrapped its latest eighth-gen Intel Core desktop processors, led by the $359 Core i7-8700K, an unlocked processor aimed at overclockers. Intel boasts that the six-core 3.7GHz Core i7-8700K ...

Need a portable gaming rig? Take a look at this 15.6-inch Alienware 15 R2 from Dell. It can handle high-res gaming while you're away from home, and when you get back, you can get the full experience ...