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Intel 'Ivy Bridge' Core i7-3770K CPU Launched!

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2012-04-23 23:00:00.0


Intel have just launched their highly anticipated mainstream 22nm 'Ivy Bridge' LGA1155 processors. The flagship of this new line-up is the Core i7-3770K, which is a quad-core/eight-thread chip with fully unlocked multipliers. It has a 3.5Ghz default clock, can Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz, has 8MB of L3 cache, a dual-channel DDR3-1600 memory interface, 16 PCI-E lanes, native support for PCI-Express 3.0 and USB 3.0, a low 77W TDP, and the much more powerful HD Graphics 4000 IGP.

Let's see what they had to say:


As we all knew before hand, Ivy Bridge doesn't really perform all that much better on the CPU front. However, it does offer slightly better performance than Sandy Bridge while using a fair bit less power. What the IGP on the other hand is significantly improved over Intel's previous attempts, although it still doesn't quite match the graphical prowess of AMD's Llano A8-series APUs. When it comes to overclocking Ivy Bridge is a little worrisome. Although you can reach about 4.5GHz with much less voltage than on Sandy Bridge, above that the temperatures skyrocket and it actually overclocks worse than the previous generation processors. Overall then it is a bit of a mixed bag, but if you're building a brand new system, this is definitely the processor to buy.

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