Ever since the blue monopoly took over the market, AMD's Athlon series has seen dramatic price drops - and the worst could be yet to come with AMD supposedly preparing another round of price cuts.

Intel's naming scheme is set to lose some weight. Effective in Q1 08, all Core 2 Duo, Quad and Solo names will be simplified to 'Core 2'. The Pentium name will also be reborn with the old 'D' and 'Dual-Core' suffixes being cut off the end.

HKEPC have gotten hold of a 45nm Wolfdale CPU running at 2.33Ghz and put it head to head against the comparable Core 2 Duo E6550, which is also clocked at 2.33GHz. While some applications only offer slight improvements, the rest will shock you.

After Kinc's 3Dmark 06 record was stolen a few weeks ago, you'd think that he'd be trying to reclaim the glory. Instead, he's turned his efforts to 3Dmark 05 and has busted his own record.