AMD FX-4170 4.2GHz Socket AM3 Plus
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Our series of gaming performance articles where we take one CPU and put it up against another one and run a series of game benchmarks, is very well known...
By Ocaholic onEspecially gamer see themselves confronted with the question which is the best CPU for their system from a performance as well as a price perspective. For the upcoming weeks we planed a series of articles, where we compare the gaming performance of two...
By Ocaholic onOn June 4 Intel is launching its next generation Core processors, also called Haswell. That means it's the perfect opportunity for us to retest all current processors and a number of older ones with a completely new test configuration. It will not only...
By uk.hardware.info onWe've already reviewed the top processor of AMD's Vishera family, FX-8350. That was just the beginning of the big refresh for the Socket AM3+ platform. AMD has also rolled out a number of more affordable CPUs. Today we're going to cover them in...
By iXBT Labs onNow that Piledriver-based CPUs and APUs are widely available (and the FX-8350 is selling for less than $200), it's a great time to compare value-oriented chips in our favorite titles. We're also breaking out a test that conveys the latency between...
By Tom's Hardware onBenchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside! 86...
By Tom's Hardware onAMD has the clock rate on its side. But Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture boasts superior IPC throughput. We pit the 4.2 GHz FX-4170 against Intel's new 3.3 GHz Core i3-3220 in an effort to determine which CPU is the better buy for £95. Intel's Ivy...
By Tom's Hardware UK onAs you may know, a while back, we came to some difficult realizations about the validity of our methods for testing PC gaming performance. In my article Inside the second: A new look at game benchmarking, we explained why the widely used...
By The Tech Report onThat is the question, Intel's Core2Duo was very popular back in the days and still is. Furthermore according to Steam's survey half of steam gamers are still using a machine powered by a dual core processor. Fair enough, let's see how the Core2Duo E8400...
By Ocaholic onLet's have a good old school AMD vs Intel test featuring the performance in games. What we do is we take an AMD FX-4170 and test it against a Core i7-3770K with the most recent games at FullHD and max details as well as max Anti Aliasing. So let's see if...
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