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Report: Don't hold your breath for Intel chipsets with USB 3.0 in 2011 by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:47 PM on July 7, 2010 Last October, we learned via an unofficial report that Intel wouldn't add native USB 3.0 support to its chipsets until 2011. According to the... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	41
Could Intel's next chipsets drop PCI support? by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:51 AM on June 25, 2010 Intel has had no qualms about producing chipsets without ATA/100 support for the past four years or so, forcing motherboard makers to rely on third-party... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	83
Report: USB 3.0 not coming to Intel chipsets until 2012 by Geoff Gasior — 11:53 AM on June 4, 2010 TechEye has received word from Gigabyte that Intel's "USB 3.0 chipset" has been delayed until 2012. This presumably refers to core-logic chipsets with... Type: News story Tags: Chipsets	22
AMD chipsets said to be in short supply by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:54 AM on May 18, 2010 Last year's 40-nm graphics processor shortage is still having repercussions. DigiTimes reports that supply of AMD's 55-nm chipsets is now running tight as a... Type: News story Tags: Chipsets	25
Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI tackle AMD's 890FX chipset by Geoff Gasior — 1:39 PM on April 29, 2010 With 44 Gen2 PCIe lanes and six 6Gbps SATA ports, AMD's new 890FX may be the finest high-end chipset on the market. Join us... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	65
Report: 6-series Intel chipsets coming in early 2011 by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:59 AM on April 9, 2010 You know the saying: where there's smoke, there's fire. DigiTimes claims to have learned of Intel's schedule for upcoming 6-series chipsets. This schedule likely... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets	57
JooJoo tablet has silly name, Ion graphics by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on March 12, 2010 Engadget has been scouring filings with the FCC again, and the site has come across evidence that Fusion Garage's upcoming JooJoo tablet features... Type: News story Tags: Chipsets Personal tech	45
AMD's 890GX integrated graphics chipset by Geoff Gasior — 12:30 PM on March 2, 2010 AMD's 890GX chipset features a hopped-up Radeon HD 4290 graphics core and an all-new SB850 south bridge with a 6Gbps Serial ATA controller. We've Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	147
Report: AMD readies 890GX launch for next month by Cyril Kowaliski — 8:59 AM on February 24, 2010 We can still look forward to AMD 890GX motherboards in May, according to the latest report by DigiTimes. The story says AMD will officially... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	22
vPro spreads to Core i3, i5, i7 processors by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:03 PM on February 4, 2010 Good news, IT admins. Intel has announced a new vPro platform, this time bringing its suite of management and monitoring technologies to systems based... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets	19
Intel's Core i3 and i5 dual-core processors by Scott Wasson — 3:48 AM on January 4, 2010 Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture has gone entirely mainstream with the arrival of the dual-core processors code-named Clarkdale. This release also marks two major milestones: the... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Chipsets	148
Ion is too big, too expensive, Intel suggests by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:56 AM on December 23, 2009 Nvidia's Ion integrated graphics chipset has grabbed a healthy number of design wins this year. And according to the rumor mill, Nvidia will... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Chipsets	41
Intel's next-gen Atom arrives in Asus' Eee PC 1005PE netbook by Geoff Gasior — 11:01 PM on December 20, 2009 Intel didn't intend for its Atom CPU to revolutionize the ultraportable notebook market, but it happened anyway. Today, the next-gen "Pine Trail" Atom platform debuts... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Chipsets Mobile computing	122
Via's Nano gets a DirectX 10.1 chipset by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:48 PM on December 10, 2009 Ever since Via subsidiary S3 Graphics started rolling out DirectX 10.1-compliant Chrome graphics processors, we've been quietly wondering when the same technology would show... Type: News story Tags: Chipsets	30
GPU acceleration comes to Flash video by Scott Wasson — 11:08 PM on December 7, 2009 At long last, playback of Flash videos on YouTube, Hulu, and elsewhere can be GPU-accelerated. Join us as we take three different low-power... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Chipsets	62
Report: New AMD desktop platforms coming in May by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:03 AM on November 4, 2009 AMD may no longer have the high-end power-efficiency crown, but it's nevertheless cooking up a pair of new desktop platforms. So writes DigiTimes,... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Chipsets	21
Intel may not add USB 3.0 to chipsets until 2011 by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:10 PM on October 26, 2009 Today, adding USB 3.0 support to a motherboard involves buying a third-party controller. And things may stay that way for the next year and a... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	46
Intel graphics drivers employ questionable 3DMark Vantage optimizations by Geoff Gasior — 11:02 AM on October 12, 2009 Intel's latest graphics drivers for Windows 7 appear to violate Futuremark's optimization guidelines for 3DMark Vantage. We investigate, and make some interesting discoveries in... Type: Feature article Tags: Graphics Chipsets	121

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It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

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Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

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Good idea, and to expand on this point: A whole lot of people have already given... +24

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