welcome to a belated unboxing this is the Intel Sandy Bridge did I say Sandy
Bridge cuz what I meant to say was Ivy Bridge lineup so I don't have the whole
lineup here today but let's go over the general information about all of them
first so at launch these are all 77 watt
tdb processors what that means is that they actually produce less heat in terms
of their spec at stock speeds than the last generation Sandy Bridge processors
which were all 95 wat TDP processors what is also cool about these guys is
the fact that they are all using Intel's new 22 nanometer manufacturing process
that means more transistors in less space which basically means two things
either cost savings for Intel which isn't of much concern to Consumers what
do we care what Intel saves their cost on um but number two but wait there's
more is in on the flip side of cost savings is that they can also not save
the cost but Jam in more performance so this is a small upgrade to the
architecture so they haven't jammed in too much more CPU performance although
they've jammed in a heck of a lot more integrated graphics performance um where
was I going with that but they have put in a little bit more performance and
they're not charging any more for it and they do run cooler and yeah pretty much
it's Ivy Bridge so let's go over the general lineup before we unbox one so
these are apparently in some kind of an order ah they are in order okay but I
would put them like this way to go slick okay and let's start over here so this
is an i5 that means it is still quad
core okay so back in the uh back in the Linfield days I5 pretty much meant dual
core if I recall correctly no it didn't I'm wrong never mind I nbed out there
okay so this is the I5 which means it does not have hyperthreading so it is
four cores and four cores only it's a 3450 so the 34 indicates like lower
General frequency performance and the 50
means that it has Intel HD graphics 2500 from my testing HD graphics 2500 are
approximately equivalent to the last generation Sandy Bridge HD 3000 so that
is the higher end Graphics from the last generation is now equivalent to the
lower end Graphics okay we have turbo boost technology 2.0 which basically
means that if you're using fewer threads that is your running a game that's only
single or dual threaded and you got four cores in here it will go ahead and ramp
up the frequency as long as you're Cooling and uh and your power
limitations think it's basically it's okay it'll do it um supports dual
Channel DDR3 memory threeyear warranty integrated memory controller and smart
cash technology okay most of those are not that relevant Beyond just it goes
like really fast that's what all of that means okay next we've got the I5 3570k
so a 35 means it's like better than a 34
and then an i5 means it like also doesn't have hyperthreading and the K
that's where oh no hold on the 70 means it has HD 4000 Graphics which are
significantly faster than 32500 Graphics but still not as fast as
AMD's Apu so something like a 3870k when
it comes to direct X11 games although it is direct X11 ready and there is a
benefit right right benefit okay so hd4000 Graphics the benefit it has over
2500 and basically anything else is that it just destroys every other method of
quickly transcoding videos so if you want to take like a folder full of
videos that you ripped off of your DVD that you bought of some show that you
like like you know gry's Anatomy for example um what you do is you just ceue
up all don't give me that look you ceue up all the videos to to uh convert them
to a format that is more acceptable for your given device so for example if you
have an iPhone all you do is you use arsoft media converter 7 you say output
to iPhone and then you give it a folder to Output to and you click go and then
you tell it to use Intel's
smart response technology no that's the U sorry that's the other one the ssds
quicksync use Intel quicksync and what it does is it does it in like half of
the time of any other solution so using all four dedicated CPU cores is still
slower than using that integrated
Graphics okay so AMD's Apu does not do
that but it uh it does sort of Beat It in direct X11 gaming but uh this to me
anyway is sort of more useful because I don't really use onboard Graphics anywh
who right so this is uh oh everything's
all out of order now this was over here right we were over here okay so the K ah
the K means it's unlocked unlocked and Unleashed that means you basically
overclock it as much as you want most IV
Bridge processors from their stock frequencies of around 3. and change are
good up to in excess of 4.5 gigz however
when you overclock an IV Bridge processor what you will notice is that
it gets pretty hot so you're going to want a pretty beefy cooler to go with
your Ivy Bridge processor let's go ahead and move along so this is an i7 3770
which means it has beefy Graphics it's like more better than this one cuz it's
37 instead of 35 and it is an i7 that means it has hyperthreading so that
means it has four physical cores and eight virtual overall cores including
four virtual cores so four physical four virtual for eight total threads on this
particular processor this is not a k which means you basically can't
overclock it which means I mean in my personal opinion as an overclocker
pretty much don't waste your money spend an extra couple bucks and go with this
guy so this is the king of the castle
when it comes to Ivy Bridge it's an i7 hyperthreading it's a 37 which means
like more of the better rest than everything else it is a 70 which means
you have fast video encoding and it is a k which means you can overclock it quite
easily to an excess of 4.6 gigz which is what I'm running on my test bench it
also has oh look at that has eight Megs of cash cool I didn't even realize the
i5s only have six Megs of cash you learn something every day don't you look at
that see it says right on the box eight Megs of cash six Megs of cash
cool so why don't we do for our unboxing the 3770k since that is the hot skew
that everyone in their dog is like super interested in hopefully it doesn't come
with a plaster of Paris heat sink in the box and no CPU at all wink wink if you
guys know what I'm uh what I'm referring to I'm sure it won't because this one
came from NCIX where most of the CPUs that they sell are real CPUs and not
made of yeah plaster okay inside we find
a CPU this has 1,155 pads on the back which correspond
to 1,155 pins in your z77 z68 or even
p67 motherboard assuming your motherboard manufacturer goes ahead and
updates the BIOS for you it comes with a sticker o it's
shiny as well as a three-year Limited warranty in logo and installation
instructions guide book which we're not going to open it's basically pretty dry
and it comes with a stock cooler which I would pretty much recommend that you
hold on do we have a garbage can that I can like totally go for like an epic
jump shot into uh okay whatever especially if
you're overclocking I would definitely recommend something more along these
lines or like these lines wo there's
like bolts and stuff okay these lines so
this is Intel's cooler which is pretty beastly and pretty
cool and yeah because Ivy Bridge does
get pretty toasty and does does draw more power once you've overclocked it so
I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my Ivy Bridge unboxing however late it may have been
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