Posts Tagged Under: CPU






Intel Releases Skylake CPUs

Intel’s latest CPU family, Skylake, has just launched with two new CPUs (the i5-6600K and i7-6700K), a new socket (1151), and a new chipset family for motherboard (Z170). These CPUs are on the 14nm manufacturing process, which is not strictly new (their previous generation, Broadwell, was on 14nm dies), but new when it comes to […]

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Haswell-E CPUs Added to the Guide

Greetings! Intel’s latest enthusiast platform, the Haswell-E CPU family, has just been launched. There are three CPUs available: two 6-cores and one 8-core. We will not be getting into the details, as you can read more about Haswell-E over at Anand’s or Tom’s. One thing that you do need to note is that you will need to buy an X99 […]

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Intel’s i7-3770K vs. the i7-3820

i7-3770K vs i7-3820 Multi-channel RAM PCIe Lanes Performance Price Conclusion Comments Bigger numbers are always better, right? The 7970 is bigger than the 7870, and it is better. 8GB of RAM is bigger than 1GB, and it is better. Naturally, one would expect the i7-3820 to perform better than the i7-3770K, since it is also […]

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