Archive for July, 2012

How to Improve Slow Notebook Performance

Your shiny new notebook might perform like a dream straight out of the box, but before long, that lightning-fast speed can slow to a snail’s pace if you don’t put in that little effort required to keep your new purchase running smoothly. Slow performance can be caused by anything from spyware to hard drive errors, [...]

MSI CR41

Taiwanese company, MSI is now offering a new CR41 notebook that comes dressed in royal bronze suit. Company is calling it multimedia mobile and comes with 14 inch screen, ho-hum HD resolution display (1366 x 768), HM76 graphics chipset and Core I series Ivy Bridge processor. For storage you can choose between 500GB, 640GB or [...]

MSI GT 60, GT 70

MSI GT60 and GT70 are often touted as the ultimate gaming beasts with GT 70 already receiving the upgrade the Nvidia GTX 675M GPU. Now, both of these notebooks will now be offered with even more beefed up Nvidia GTX 680M GPU with 4GB dedicated RAM. Searched for: msi gt 70 reviews, MSI GT 70, [...]

Core i7-3920XM Benchmark

The Intel Core i7 2920XM was the fastest Sandy Bridge laptop processor till date. With the introduction of 22nm manufacturing technology in Ivy Bridge, Intel was able to raise the bar again and introduced Core i7-3920XM which is the fastest Ivy Bridge processor. The 3920XM runs at 2.9GHz (same as i7 3520m CPU) and overclocks [...]

Intel Celeron 867 Benchmark

Intel Celeron 867 is a ULV processor with two cores for the entry level notebooks. Based on the sandy bridge architecture, it runs at 1.3GHz clock speed. Even though its chipset supports turbo boost and hyperthreading, they are deactivated as it is a low end chip. Searched for: Celeron 847 passmark

Core i5 3360M Benchmark

The Core i5 3360M is a dual core processor from Intel based on Ivy Bridge architecture. Thanks to hyperthreading, it can manage upto 4 threads with its 2 cores. It runs at a base clock speed of 2.8GHz and overclocks to 3.5GHz under turbo boost mode. Since this is a full voltage CPU, it has [...]

Celeron 877 Benchmark

The Intel Celeron 877 is an ULV dual core processor for entry level notebooks that is based on Sandy Bridge architecture. However, like other Sandy Bridge based Celeron processors, it comes comes with Hyperthreading and Turbo boost deactivated. It runs at 1.4GHz clock speed and features 2MB of L3 cache. There are two cores that [...]

Intel Celeron 847 Benchmark

The Celeron 847 processor was launched few months ago and it first made its appearance on the Dell V131 notebook. Based on Sandy Bridge platform, this Intel processor runs at 1.1GHz clock speed. Like the new ultrabook CPUs (example: Core i3 2367m), it has a TDP of 17 watts. Like i3 processors, the Celeron 847 [...]

Intel Core i7 3520M Benchmark Review

The Intel Core i7 3520M processor is a very fast full voltage processor based on the Ivy Bridge architecture. The i7 3520M features hyperthreading technology that allows it to handle upto 4 threads with its two cores. The processor runs at 2.9GHz clock speed that automatically overclocks to 3.6GHz under turbo boost mode. Searched for: [...]

Toshiba Tecra R940

Toshiba has rolled out two new models in its Tecra 2012 lineup. One is Tecra R940 and another is R950. Currently, Toshiba is offering two pre-build models for R940 – Tecra R940-S9430 and Tecra R940-S9440. The R940-S9430 comes with Core i5 3320M processor, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard disk and ATi Radeon HD 7570M GPU with [...]