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Intel Pentium G6950 2.8Ghz Socket 1156

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By Bit-tech.net on June 24, 2010

At stock speeds, the Pentium G6950 has a genuine rival in the Athlon II X3 445 – both produce the same overall score, but the X3 445 will reduce the time you have to wait for lengthy video or audio encodes and is more adept at heavy multi-tasking....

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By DigitalVersus on May 26, 2010

The Intel range The Pentium G6000 range arrived in January 2010, and is made up of dual-core processors with a built-in graphics chipset.Based on the Clarkdale architecture, they have 3 MB of L3 cache and use an 1156 socket. Engineered at 32 nm,...

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By Tom's Hardware on May 21, 2010

At the end of the day, both of these CPUs offer solid value. The Pentium G6950 is a decent starter CPU with tremendous overclocking potential and a platform that has a lot of room to grow with the user. The downside? Poor...

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By Fudzilla on May 10, 2010

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,...

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By AnandTech on March 24, 2010

Two months ago AMD released a bunch of new CPUs priced between $70 - $120. For the past couple of years AMD has been enjoying the fact that Intel's newest architectures start out at the higher price points, and take their sweet time to trickle down...

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By Tom's Hardware on January 25, 2010

Writing this article covering AMD's Phenom II X2 555 introduction and including Intel's Pentium G6950 (we knew that this would be a hot comparison, pardon the pun) was a humbling experience. This is the first time I've committed...

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By Legion Hardware on January 24, 2010

Still, there is very little difference between the Pentium G6950/H55 and Phenom II X2 550/785G configurations that we used for this article, and both will cost you less than $200 US. Either option is powerful enough for typical day to day tasks, while...

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By X-bit Labs on January 03, 2010

Summing up everything we have just said, we can only state that the launch of new LGA1156 processors has significantly expanded the application field for this platform. It became a truly mainstream and universal platform, because now there are almost...

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By ExtraHardware on July 23, 2010

Jde-li vám o koupi samotného procesoru, pak Pentium G6950 není výhodný jak oproti předchůdci (Pentium Dual-Core E6300 a E6500 s 45nm jádrem Wolfdale), tak proti konkurenci. Je sice výkonnější...

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By Présence PC on July 06, 2010

Après avoir réuni sept des processeurs les plus attractifs à moins de 150 euros, nous avons donc voulu voir quel modèle offrait le meilleur rapport performances/prix, mais aussi l’écart de performances entre les premiers prix de notre sélection (80...

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