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Silicon Valley Nation: Processor speed kings crowned
Brian Fuller
12/20/2012 3:30 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO -- If you ever want to know who's at the hairy edge of
speed in processor world, ask gamers.
These wide-eyed, caffeinated techno-freaks are always on the hunt for faster performance, more throughput, more sizzling graphics engines. It's in their world where you can get a sense for what design teams are doing right by them.
This year, the community at gamer-heavy Overclock.net, has spoken, voting with their mice: 35,000 votes for nearly 40 categories during the two-week November voting period.
Who strikes their speed-freak fancy? Perhaps no surprise: AMD, Intel and NVidia.
Nabbing gold medals for best performance were AMD's FX 8-Core Black Edition FX-8150 and Intel's 3930K which screams at 3.90 GHz. Best-value honors went to the AMD FX-6100 Zambezi (3.3GHz) (+/-$119) and Intel's Core™ i7-3770K (+/- $319).
On the graphics-processing front, NVidia's MSI GTX680 Lightning and AMD's MSI R7970 Lightning took top honors.
On the motherboard front, ASUS pretty much swept categories with its Maximus V Formula, Rampage IV Extreme and Crosshair V Formula-Z boards.
Hey, it's the holidays. Time to build a new system. What else were you going to do? Spend time with family?
Related stories:
--Novel Microprocessor-based Physical Unclonable Function Demonstrated
--Virginia Tech unveils HokieSpeed; supercomputer for the masses
--Intel vindicated by TSMC/ARM announcement
These wide-eyed, caffeinated techno-freaks are always on the hunt for faster performance, more throughput, more sizzling graphics engines. It's in their world where you can get a sense for what design teams are doing right by them.
This year, the community at gamer-heavy Overclock.net, has spoken, voting with their mice: 35,000 votes for nearly 40 categories during the two-week November voting period.
Who strikes their speed-freak fancy? Perhaps no surprise: AMD, Intel and NVidia.
Nabbing gold medals for best performance were AMD's FX 8-Core Black Edition FX-8150 and Intel's 3930K which screams at 3.90 GHz. Best-value honors went to the AMD FX-6100 Zambezi (3.3GHz) (+/-$119) and Intel's Core™ i7-3770K (+/- $319).
On the graphics-processing front, NVidia's MSI GTX680 Lightning and AMD's MSI R7970 Lightning took top honors.
On the motherboard front, ASUS pretty much swept categories with its Maximus V Formula, Rampage IV Extreme and Crosshair V Formula-Z boards.
Hey, it's the holidays. Time to build a new system. What else were you going to do? Spend time with family?
Related stories:
--Novel Microprocessor-based Physical Unclonable Function Demonstrated
--Virginia Tech unveils HokieSpeed; supercomputer for the masses
--Intel vindicated by TSMC/ARM announcement
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