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so we've done a number of videos here on Techquickie explaining the alphabet

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soup that you have to slurp down in order to understand exactly what it is

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you're buying when you go shopping for electronics and perhaps no company has

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been more guilty of throwing seemingly random letters at product names than

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Intel so while it might not be too hard to understand the difference between a

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core i3 and a core i5 you know bigger

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number is better as a general rule if

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you've ever looked at a product page or a spec sheet for a laptop or even some

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desktops you've probably noticed that sometimes there are letters attached to

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the end of the CPU model numbers too what are those for

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well as it turns out these letters aren't just random characters that Intel

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threw in they actually have real meanings that tell you something about

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the processor unfortunately there are so many of them

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that it can feel like you're trying to crack the da vinci code just to figure

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out what your CPU was designed to do but fear not Techquickie is here to

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demystify what they all mean starting with the one you're probably most

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familiar with already k

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k means that a chip's multiplier is

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unlocked meaning that it can be easily overclocked if you have a similarly

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enabled motherboard non-k chips have very limited

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overclocking functionality so make sure you look for that k if you want to tweak

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your system by the way Intel doesn't talk about it

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as much but the k in hk cpus that you

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occasionally see in high-end laptops also means the same thing

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speaking of which let's move on to h then which officially stands for high

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performance graphics and is used to designate Intel's higher end offerings

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in the mobile segment that consume more power and here's another mobile specific

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one many of those higher power chips also

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have a q on the end this is for quad

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core so that's why you'll often see hq

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on more expensive laptops it is not a

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subliminal message intended to make you think that Intel notebooks are high

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quality or is it

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anyway the other letters that you're likely to see on mobile chips are you

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and why with you standing for ultra low

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power and y meaning

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yeah um extremely low power

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why not e for extremely oh that's right

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because e was used to designate chips that support ecc memory so

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for better or for worse you and y chips

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are what you'll see in laptops and other mobile devices where the focus is more

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on saving battery life than on performance with some y series cpus

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having tdps of under 5 watts

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now it bears noting that Intel has an m

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suffix to make it clear that a chip is mobile but currently it's only being

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used on xeon chips for mobile workstations

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now let's kick things back over to desktop land we'll start with the letter

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t this feels like an episode of sesame street these processors still fit in a

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standard lga desktop socket but they are

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low power so you'll often see them in small form factor or all-in-one

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computers that are designed with smaller power supplies or less aggressive

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cooling other letters can indicate some interesting graphics options so if you

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see a chip with a p on the end this indicates a desktop processor without

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integrated graphics which can save you a few bucks if you're planning to use a

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discrete video card anyway while the newer g cpus feature Radeon rx vega

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graphics that are built in from none other than Intel's biggest rival AMD

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sorry excuse me i mean their total non-competitor Radeon technologies

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group which is a totally different company now of course we'd be remiss if

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we didn't give a quick shout out to r and c which we last saw on the now

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several generations old broadwell line to designate a soldered on CPU and then

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an unlocked desktop CPU respectively

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i don't know what the point of c instead of k was but you know what it doesn't

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matter it's over now let's finish this up then with the most

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dramatic letter of all x

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this indicates a very high end unlocked

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consumer CPU with the most cores and the

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highest prices and it's currently sitting atop the pile in the core i9

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7980xc for extreme

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edition not to be confused with e for ecc memory

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like i mentioned earlier so in summary then

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maybe Intel could do a better job of making these things simpler and more

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consistent for consumers but at least to their credit someone

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over there recognized the problem and spearheaded the creation of this lengthy

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website to help people decipher their ever shifting meanings we're going to

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have that linked below so you can find the latest updates

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