Intel Core i5 750 2.67 GHz Socket 1156

Intel continue their dominance in the CPU industry with two new CPU's, the Intel Core i5 570 and Intel Core i7 870. Moving away from just raw GHz power, Intel continue to maximise their CPU's and unlike their previous Core releases, these two...

Late last summer, Intel rolled out the Core i5 750 based on Lynnfield, its mainstream Nehalem-class CPU. It became an instant favourite. Sure, it was short of a feature or three compared to Intel's finest, including HyperThreading. But for the...

The Core i5 750 offers superlative performance, is eager to overclock and at US $192, is temptingly priced as well....

Intel's Range The Core i5 700 series was introduced in September 2009, and is made up exclusively of quad-core CPUs without hyper-threading. To compensate, they all have a Turbo mode, which increases their basic frequency by 133 or 533 MHz depending...

Intel's i5 series of processors are their budget offerings for consumers who cannot afford the steeply priced i7 processors. The Core i5 750, which we reviewed is another Quad Core CPU based on 45nm technology from the Intel family and lives up...

With loads of power at a reasonable price, this is the best current chip for inexpensive gaming or video editing...

Lynnfield has one more surprise in store: Windows 7 is tweaked to work with its multiple cores and threads. Core Parking is a new technique to not only help applications make better use of available threads, but also prevent apps from jumping between...

While Intel did separate the Core i5 and i7 CPUs in the new socket with the inclusion of HyperThreading - the vaunted simultaneous multithreading - for the i7 chips, as well as higher clock multipliers, there are no other differences save obviously...