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According to the folks over at DigiTimes, Intel is set to launch their Ivy Bridge CPUs on April 8th of this year (see our post on Ivy Bridge pricing). There will be a good selection of Core i7 and Core i5 CPUs at launch and accompanying them will be Intel’s 7-series chipsets – notably Z77, [...]

Intel’s upcoming 22nm die-shrink of the Sandy Bridge platform, known as Ivy Bridge, is coming in Q2 2012 and today we have some more details to share! As we have been expecting, the prices are not that far off of current Sandy Bridge prices and while early benchmarks (keep in mind that these are rumours) [...]

Intel’s Sandy Bridge platform has been turning heads since it was released in January of this year and while the enthusiast-grade Sandy Bridge-E platform hasn’t turned quite as many heads since it was launched last month, it does take the performance crown. Well, today we have news regarding interesting new processors for both of these [...]

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Intel’s CPU Pipeline Gets Detailed

by Cole on December 4, 2011 · 1 comment

in CPUs,Rumours

It has been a long time since we have taken a look at the CPU architectures in Intel’s pipeline, but thanks to a recent post at Bright Side of News, we have some likely-true rumours to share! Due out in Q2 of 2012 we, of course, have Intel’s 22nm die shrink Ivy Bridge CPUs, which [...]

Intel may have just launched their latest enthusiast product line with their X79 chipset and Sandy Bridge-E chipset, but that won’t stop the rumour/leak mill from churning out information regarding Intel’s next batch of enthusiast processors - Ivy Bridge-E! Not to be confused with the to-be-launched-in-early-2012 Ivy Bridge CPUs, Ivy Bridge-E processors will essentially be the [...]

The folks over at Semi Accurate have posted that the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on Intel’s upcoming enthusiast-grade Sandy Bridge-E processors is set to lift on November 14 at 12:01 AM PST. Typically NDA’s expire the same day as components ship and this release date fits the rumours perfectly. On launch day are are expecting the [...]

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Intel Launches Core i7-2700K

by Cole on October 24, 2011 · 0 comments

in CPUs,News

We have known for a while that it was coming, but today, Intel officially launched their flagship Sandy Bridge CPU, the Core i7-2700K. Taking the performance crown from the Core i7-2600K, the 2700K brings a 100 MHz higher clock speed as well as some features common to the 2600K such as Intel HD 3000 integrated [...]

We have known for a while that the production method used in creating Intel’s upcoming enthusiast-grade Sandy Bridge-E CPUs involves the inclusion of 8 CPU cores on a single die, whilst only offering up to 6 usable cores to users. Now, according to a post by the folks over at VR-Zone, we may know why. [...]

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More Intel Ivy Bridge Details Emerge

by Cole on October 20, 2011 · 0 comments

in CPUs,Rumours

A handful of details on Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs, due out in 2012, have been leaked by the folks over at the Chinese website, Chiphell. Not only do we find out the names of the upcoming CPUs (Core i7-3700 and Core i5-3500 on the higher end), we also find out that these CPUs are [...]

It’s not too often that shots like this on such a high-profile motherboard get leaked, but just a few hours ago the folks over at Bright Side of News published a few images of an upcoming EVGA X79 Classified motherboard that looks absolutely fantastic! The shots were taken at the the GeForce LAN 6 party in [...]