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The 2009 AV Trials

Free Microsoft Office?

 

Our 23 Favorite Free Porgrams

Antivirus 2008

Vista Downgrade Rights

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Tour Windows 7 with the Village Geek

Take the Virtual Tour of our Zionsville Shop

ADVICE:

Have You Lost That Lovin' Feeling?

Repairing Your Computer


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Computers are Computers and They Cost What They Cost

Dealing with Tech Support

Tuned By The Village Geek

Is Your Computer Running Slow?

10 Commandments for Your Computer Sanity

REMARKS:


The Case of Tcase

Sumthin 4 Nuthin?

Why Buy From the Village Geek

Three Reasons to Buy Your New Computer from The Village Geek

 

The Total Cost of Ownership

 

Steve's Rant on Tech Suport

Steve's Rant on Vista


GEEK'S CORNER-tech how to:

Make Vista Look and Act Like Windows 7


Smart Solutions for
Printer Problems


Understanding EXE error messages


Guidelines For Dealing With Windows PC Errors

How to install Cobian 9

Cobian 9 Backup Detailed Instructions

Backup Instructions

Building Your Own PVR?

Slipstreaming Windows

Building a Do-It-Yourself NAS Server Revisited

RF Interference on CAT5 cabling

Distributed Computing

GPU, PPU, GRAM and your system part 1

GPU, PPU, GRAM and your system part 2

Building Redundancy With a SATA RAID Array

Protecting Your Audio Investment

Do it yourself DVR

Build a NAS server at home

RAID, What is it and Why Do You Care?

Firewalls and Internet Security

Data Storage, Data Backup, Data Security

WHAT'S NEW:

Intel Announces New Processors
Jan 2010

i7 and i5 Released September 2009

New System Specs Feb 2009

Solid State Drives Jan 2008

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Intel to Announce New Processors

On January 7th Intel will announce their new "Core" i3, i5 and i7 series processors. While they are reserving the details of the new chips model numbers and speed, they have confirmed the release of these new chips.

This is significant because the i3 is an entirely new chip, and until now the i5 has only had one chip available.

According to Intel, the Core 2 Duo (C2D) and Core 2 Quad (C2Q) series will fade away, while Pentium, Celeron and Atom processor will remain.

When you look at brand name computers the array of processor names can make you dizzy. Buying the right product for your needs can be a real challange. For those confused shoppers, I offer this quick breakdown of the different series processors.

Pentium is the old stand by name, but the new chips have very little to do with the familiar Pentium 4 we all think of. The current Pentium chips are for "basic computing" according to Intel, while the Celeron remains as a value chip (read 'slow'), and the Atom is the low voltage, low heat, low power chip used in netbooks and very low end computers.

The Pentium and Celeron chips are indeed dual core these days; however they use the older cores that underperform the current processors. Confusing the situation even more, Intel has intermingled Pentium chip model names with C2D model names. For example Intel currently shows a E6300 as a Pentium, while it shows the E6320 as a C2D. You can look up the status of each model number here. Even the lowly Atom is offered in Dual Core these days, and actually provides performance that is satisfactory for many applications.

For the purpose of shopping remember that a Pentium, Celeron or Atom chip will provide only basic computing performance. The term "Dual Core", does not indicate a faster series anymore. These chips should not be selected unless your needs are indeed limited to internet email, surfing and basic homework type projects.

Next I will try to lay down a roadmap of the new "Core Series" processors and how they relate to your computing needs.

These new processors included the i3, i5, and i7 series processors, which are built on two different platforms. The typical user could care less about platforms, but there is a significant difference in performance between the two platforms. The i7 processor is built for both platforms, which again makes the processor market harder to understand. You can read a lot more detail on the two new platforms here.

The short answer is the i3, i5 processors use the slower platform, while the i7 900 series processors (and up) will use the faster platform. The i7 800 series (and below) will use the same platform as the i3 and i5. Take these remarks with a grain of salt, because the so called slower platform I mentioned is lightyears faster than any of the current platforms used by Pentium, C2D or C2Q.

So using the bigger is better theory you can now select your computer by model number, if you want a rocket ship, choose any "Core series" processor which has a model name starting with an "i". From there, the i5 is faster than the i3, the i7 is faster than the i5, and a i7-900 series is way faster than an i7-800 series.

Clear as mud?

~Steve