Intel Joins The Dual-Core Wars

The battle for the dual-core crown continues. Back in May, both Intel and AMD announced their respective dual-core solutions within five days of each other. However, AMD's Athlon X2 actually shipped several weeks ahead of Intel's Pentium D. Is the last product to hit the shelves destined to be the loser of this particular race? Or is Intel's dual-core processor good enough to wipe out AMD's first-to-the-market advantage?

Back in the end of May, I reviewed one of the first systems available with the Athlon X2 4200+: Cyberpower’s Ultra Workstation 3000. In this review, I'll look at Hewlett-Packard's Compaq dc7600 midtower system, which comes equipped with the Intel Pentium D 820 dual-core processor.

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