Neowin News Feed for: Quad

Introducing the AMD Phenom™ quad core processor

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:55:43 +0000

Delivering a four-core foreshadowing of innovations to come for PC enthusiasts worldwide, AMD today unveiled the upcoming AMD Phenom™ processor family name and publicly demonstrated the first all-AMD enthusiast platform, codenamed "FASN8." The industry's only... Read more...

AMD Opteron 2200-series Works in Quad FX Motherboards

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:28:15 +0000

Dave Graham has posted images of an AMD Opteron 2218 processor running on an ASUS L1N64-SLI motherboard, which is designed for AMD's Quad FX platform. The motherboard BIOS detects the processor correctly and functions properly.... Read more...

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 review

Julio Franco — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:09:43 +0000

Hot on the heels of the Core 2 Duo launch, Intel came out and released the world's first quad-core processor last November. Given how powerful the Core 2 Duo had proven to be, we wondered... Read more...

AMD Quad FX Hits Retail

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:32:35 +0000

The Athlon 64 FX-70 series and ASUS L1N64-SLI WS may be available in retail but only two retailers carry the necessary Quad FX products: Newegg and ZipZoomFly. Neither retailer, however, has the required ASUS L1N64-SLI... Read more...

Intel to Launch Core 2 Quad Chip in January

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:18:24 +0000

Intel plans to launch the third model of its four-core processor in January, continuing its efforts to stay ahead of Advanced Micro Devices on the next-generation processor family. Intel will launch the Core 2 Quad... Read more...

AMD releases Quad FX platform

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:12:31 +0000

AMD today announced its dual-socket Quad FX platform featuring AMD Athlon 64 FX-70 series dual-core processors, the newest additions to the Athlon 64 FX processor family. The platform currently supports up to four CPU cores... Read more...

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review: Quad Core is here!

Julio Franco — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:29:50 +0000

Since the release of Intel's Conroe micro-architecture, the company has been making waves, massive waves. In terms of performance, Intel washed away main competitor AMD, and they have continued to do so during the past... Read more...

AMD shows off quad core roadmap

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:04:25 +0000

STABILITY WAS the attribute which AMD seemed most keen to project at its recent Dresden press conference. While simultaneously outlining its policy of sticking to the same core, AMD also promised to be only one... Read more...

Nvidia ForceWare Quad SLI 91.45 Driver

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:06:16 +0000

Theres a new driver available that is designed for 7950 GX2 & Quad SLI Technology chipsets. Adds support for Quad NVIDIA SLI™ Technology on GeForce 7950 GX2 GPUs. Includes the new NVIDIA Control Panel.... Read more...

Intel Quad Core ''Kentsfield'' Testing

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:33:34 +0000

It looks as if the unthinkable has happened. As if it wasn't enough that Intel's soon-to-be-released Core 2 Duo chips were breaking WRs back and forth among the elite overclocking community, Coolaler, the overclocker that... Read more...

Nvidia's Quad SLI Still Not Available – System Builders.

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:23:19 +0000

Despite of formal announcements and strong hype, Nvidia Corp.'s technology called quad SLI that allows four graphics cards to work together cannot be obtained by end-users. Furthermore, system builders anonymously claim that they are allowed... Read more...

Gigabyte 8N-SLI QUAD Royal – An exercise in possibilities

Steven Parker — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:03:39 +0000

TweakTown have put together a small review of Gigabyte's new 8N-SLI QUAD motherboard, it makes for interesting reading about expanding the use of PCI-Express slots to SLI modes. "For a little while... Read more...

Intel set to go quad core early too

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:01:04 +0000

SO, WHERE DO you get a competitor for the 4-core Opteron in a hurry if you are Intel? Well, you pull a Presler and put two Woodcrests on a slab of organic substrate. Now,... Read more...

Intel Possibly Added 1066MHz Quad Pumped Bus

Tue, 11 May 2004 22:06:53 +0000

A number of web-sites reported that Intel is going to accelerate its Pentium 4 processors later this year by incorporating more cache into the chips and boosting the speed of the processor system bus. ... Read more...

P4 with 200 MHz Quad FSB & i875P Dual DDR400 Review

Wed, 16 Apr 2003 17:00:12 +0000

It has been a long time since Intel has simultaneously launched a new processor and a new platform. The last time was the launch of the Pentium 4 in November 2000, to be exact. Today,... Read more...

Via strikes deal over quad band memory

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:54:30 +0000

Chip firm VIA said it has licensed QBM (quad band memory) technology from Kentron. The firm claimed that using QBM technology with its chipsets will effectively double the speed of double data rate (DDR) memories.... Read more...

SlikStik Quad

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:49:23 +0000

This is one of the best product I've seen in a while, its time to pull out that emu and get some 4-player SSF2 Turbo action going after a long night at the pub :D... Read more...

Quad Sledgehammers out by June 2003 - AMD

Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:48:33 +0000

Nailing down a release date for Hammer, AMD's upcoming x.86-compatible CPU, is harder than wrestling with jelly. In this week's Upside.com interview with Jerry Sanders (linked ad nauseum elsewhere), the AMD chairman... Read more...