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HDXPRT 2009
For all the advances the PC industry continues to make, buying the right PC is still just too hard.

DHCAT 3.0 is Here!
‘Media PC Capabilities Made Simple’ are the new watch-words.

DHCAT 3.0 Preview

It’s coming soon to a PC near you. A new and greatly improved Intel® Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool will be here soon. Get the early info now, and pre-order your free copy of this powerful new platform capabilities assessment tool.


Energy-Efficient Performance 2.0

EEP 2.0 updates this energy-efficiency methodology to include SYSmark* 2007 Preview Edition and Windows* Vista*. It also strikes a better balance between the three key system states. Click here to learn more.


MythMash: Frontside Bus - Bottleneck or Room to Grow?

Multicore has arrived. And more cores are coming. As the numbers of cores grows, is the rest of the platform ready to grow with it? Come find out.


DHCAT 2.0.2 Patch Released
Today we release a new patch for Intel® DHCAT. Come and get it!

Introducing Intel® DHCAT 2.0
A good thing just got better. Here’s the skinny on the latest version of this groundbreaking PC capabilities assessment tool.

Introducing Software Evaluation Guides
Now you can test your PC at home just like we test ours in the lab. Here are the recipes to show you how to do it.

Best Practices for Benchmarking on Windows* Vista* - Update!
New OS. New Features. New Benchmarking Issues. Here's a practical guide for getting consistent results running tests on Windows* Vista. We have just updated this story with new information about Windows* Prefetch* and getting your system to settle down before testing.

Eight Cores, No Waiting
Thinking about the move to quad-core? Hold on, there’s more! Four more to be exact. For the extremest of the extreme, you can build a blazingly fast eight-core system...TODAY. Here’s the recipe.

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The Code Tamers
Want to crawl inside DHCAT and see what makes it tick? The tool's two lead developers get their blog on. Together, they are...The Code Tamers.

Perceptual Matters
How something looks depends on how we perceive it. Studying how we perceive things is this focus of our newest blog, Perceptual Matters, featuring Intel Researcher Philip Corriveau.

Beyond Measure - Shervin Kheradpir
Benchmarks: equal parts science and art? Shervin wonders aloud about how to keep PC benchmarks relevant to consumers as demands on the platform increasingly focus on experience.