Processors Join Product Face-Offs

We've been beavering away all weekend in our labs to bring you a new set of Product Face-Offs, allowing you to compare processors.

As Régis, our CPU tester writes, "the CPU is the brains of your computer, and the faster it goes, the faster you'll be able to get on with whatever it is you're doing."

To help you choose between the two big manufacturers, AMD and Intel, and dual- and quad-core processors, we've got a thorough series of test results for you to look at:


This particular graph shows performance editing multimedia files: including audio, video and image manipulation, but we also measure a series of other characteristics, including a processor's temperature and noise levels under different conditions.

There are 22 CPUs in this first batch, and their full tests will follow in the next few days ...

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