PCMag Editors did not test the Intel Core i5-2500. We did, however, test and review the Intel Core i5-2500K (4.5 stars, Editor's Choice). A quad-core processor with a 3.7GHz max speed, the Intel Core ...

Back in the days of the Conroe CPUs, I compared Intel to a charging rhino. They are a big company that has a lot of weight and momentum behind them. Often there are times it can be hard for them to ...

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Intel's release of its second-generation Core (aka "Sandy Bridge") processing platform went off without a hitch—and we really liked the new line's flagship processor, the Core i7-2600K—until late ...

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held at the turn of the year in Las Vegas, Nevada, is usually the place to be for important technology launches. 12 months ago, Intel used the pretext of CES ...

First a quick précis of our review chips. The Intel Core i5-2500K is a quad-core, quad-thread chip with 6MB of L3 cache memory and clocks in at 3.3GHz standard and 3.7GHz maximum Turbo frequency. It's ...

The most expensive part we’ll see from this launch is the Core i7-2600K, at $317. It’s a quad-core offering that features eight threads and is clocked at 3.40GHz. Like the Clarkdale models released ...

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In terms of basic layout, the Sandy Bridge architecture that underpins the new Intel Core i5-2500K and Intel Core i7-2600K desktop processors is not a revolutionary redesign. For launch, Intel has ...

Gigabyte is one of a few companies eschewing the new EFI route in favour of an old-style BIOS, but with hacked in 2.2TB hard disk support. Gigabyte's spin reasoning on this is that it can't make an ...

CPU Ratio: This is your main, and largely only, means of adding extra CPU frequency. Because the Base Clock is 100MHz by default, it's easy to calculate that a 45x multiplier will give you a 4.5GHz ...