After spending the last several generations playing it safe and letting AMD enjoy the CPU spotlight, Intel finally decided to provide a more robust competition with their recent 12th-generation Alder Lake chips. New DDR5 RAM support, much smaller lithography, and lots more cores await to provide plenty of gaming and multitasking performance this holiday season. […]
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Building a Quiet Gaming PC with the Intel i7-12700K
With Intel releasing their new 12th-generation chips into a market still saturated with scalpers peddling $2000 GPUs, it’s fair to say that most people interested in this new hardware are looking to upgrade just their CPU (and motherboard) rather than putting together an entirely new build. But it’s a lot easier to conceptualize what […]
Best Newegg Black Friday Week Deals 2021
- The Falcon
- 22nd Nov 2021
- Hardware Sales
Newegg Black Friday 2021 Week sales! These are Logical Increments’ picks for the best Newegg Black Friday Week 2021 deals. Black Friday is the day where a large number of retailers all around the world have the biggest sales of the year. Some outlets (like Newegg) will also have pre-Black Friday sales, so we have […]
Intel’s Alder Lake: The Phoenix Emerges
- The Falcon
- 9th Nov 2021
- Logical Increments Updates
Ever since Intel won every race in the universe with the launch of Sandy Bridge back in 2011, they have been slacking. AMD’s tortoise needed six long years, but it overtook the sleeping Intel hare in 2017, leaving behind a lot of room for jokes at Intel’s expense. But Intel, like all other large tech […]
Best Beginner’s Guide to CPU Specifications
When buying and picking your CPU, you want to get the best you can get for your money, as well as the CPU that best fits your needs. When sifting through the available CPUs to satisfy those goals, you are bombarded with numerous technical terms and specifications. In this article, I aim to clear up […]
The Slow Return to Sanity Update
- The Falcon
- 11th Aug 2021
- Logical Increments Updates
How have you been? Better, I hope. Things have not been well for the last 1.5 years, due to… the circumstances being what they are. But at long last, we can see a ray of hope!
PC Hardware Supply vs. Demand in 2021 and Beyond
- Chris Cunningham
- 8th Jun 2021
- PC Hardware
Let’s be fair: it would be more than a little presumptuous if we expected or even demanded improvements to the current hardware shortages. Even after a monumental vaccine rollout procedure in many countries, the pandemic is still having a huge global effect, and we as builders need to have patience. At this point, we are […]
Building a Workstation PC with the i9-11900K
The i9-11900K is a somewhat confusing component. On the one hand, it compares unfavorably with its own predecessor, the i9-10900K: it has 8 cores (down from its older sibling’s 10), yet has the same top speed. And indeed, benchmarks by Gamers Nexus show that performance is very similar, with the i9-11900K sometimes slightly behind its […]
Building a Gaming PC with the i7-11700K
Intel recently launched a new lineup of chips, and one of them was the i7-11700K, an 8 core/16 threaded powerhouse with a boost clock of 5 GHz. With such specifications, this processor runs any game smoothly. As a result of the high core count, it would also be fit for workstation purposes such as video […]
AMD 5nm vs. Intel 7nm: Whose CPUs Will Win?
- Chris Cunningham
- 5th May 2021
- PC Hardware
Time traveling is always a risk. When you go to the past, there’s the usual dangers like making sure you don’t talk to your past self, not stepping on any bugs so you don’t trigger the butterfly effect, etc… and when you go to the future, there is the danger that your expectations could […]