This standard Zen 4 chip is no gap filler. Read our AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Review. At first glance, the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X is the safest option of AMD’s new Zen 4 lineup. It’s an 8-core CPU with 16 threads, coming in at just under $ and, specs-wise, nothing out of the ordinary. Compared … Read more
Intel is keeping up the Raptor Lake momentum at the cheaper end of the scale, as the new Core i5-13600K isn’t just a boring incremental bump over the excellent Core i5-12600K, which retails for around £ these days. As with the Core i9-13900K, the Core i5-13600K doesn’t just have higher clock speeds than its predecessor … Read more
We’re not sure we can remember a period of CPU launches landing quite so close together, intermixed with graphics cards too, but as Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs have finally landed, this is the real comparison everyone wants to see. The Core i9-13900K is retailing for a lot more than we initially expected, but that’s still … Read more
A lot has changed in the month or two since we first started looking at AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series CPUs, and that change has come specifically from Intel with its 13th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs. Read our AMD RYZEN 9 7900X Review. SOCKET AM5 PROCESSORANTONY LEATHER AMD’s new chips are certainly efficient, drawing less power than Intel’s … Read more
This autumn is going to represent an interesting battle for the CPU performance crown, with AMD’s new 5nm Zen 4 microarchitecture vying for pole position against the expected Core i9-13900K from Intel. However, while AMD has made huge performance gains from shrinking the manufacturing process and introducing a new microarchitecture, it hasn’t increased the core … Read more
After the Core i7-11700K proved almost as potent as the Core i9-11900K, but for much less cash, Alder Lake sees Intel’s mainstream Core i7 chip go back to basics. INTEL LGA1700 CPU It has a lower core count than the 12900K, but also a much lower price, retailing for £ less than the Core i9-12900K. … Read more
Apart from the odd surprise such as the Haswell-based, multiplier-unlocked Pentium G3258, Intel’s CPU offerings have been consistent in terms of overclocking abilities for a number of years. We usually get two K-series models per quad-core generation that are multiplier-unlocked – a Core i5 and Core i7, with a raft of non-K-series CPUs ranging from … Read more
SUPPLIER www.overclockers.co.uk Rumors of a multiplier- unlocked Core i3 processor generated a lot of excitement with enthusiasts at the end of 2016, and it turns out that the Core i3-7350K was indeed a part of Intel’s 14nm Kaby Lake plans, but is it all we anticipated? Sadly, the current exchange rate and rising costs have … Read more
The slow comparatively cheap Ryzen 7 17000 has slower stock frequencies than the Ryzen 7 1700X and 1800X, and the lack of an ‘X’ in its name signifies that it’s been less favorably binned in terms of overclocking too. Thankfully, it not only costs less than the Ryzen 7 1800X, but it also sports a super-low TDP … Read more
When Intel’s Broadwell-E CPUs were released a year ago, they didn’t offer anything particularly new, aside from the 10-core Core i7-6950X, along with its ridiculously expensive price that broke the £1,500 barrier. Charging that much money for a 10-core desktop CPU isn’t wise now though. This year, March saw the introduction of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, … Read more
A lot has changed with the introduction of Intel’s new X299 platform and Skylake-X chips. There are more CPUs than in the Broadwell-E line-up for starters, and potential owners have even trickier choices to make than with the X99 platform. Table of ContentsFrom Core i5 to Core i9Inside the chips From Core i5 to Core … Read more
INTEL LGA2066 PROCESSOR We’ll probably never know whether Intel’s extensive X299 CPU line-up is clue to AMD’s return to form, or If Intel was just trying to extend its high-end desktop platform’s reach, but there are some strange decisions in there nonetheless. Half the range is still missing a couple of months after launch, with … Read more