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- I've already seen what's in here. Intel's a bit of an underdog lately

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and it feels great to be able to say that because they've been on top for so long

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and honestly were (energetic rock music) more or less responsible

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for stagnation in the CPU industry for so long

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that it feels really fitting. Today, maybe that changes a little bit

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because Alder Lake is unlike anything that has come before

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from anyone. at least in terms of desktop processors.

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I mean, Apple Silicon is technically similar,

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but that's not x86 and it's not something you can go out

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and buy for yourself unless you buy a Mac. So these CPU's are really special.

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And as a result, Intel decided to send over this here press kit

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to us in order to kind of drive home that specialness

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that makes it special. So there's a little magnetic flap here

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I mean, nobody's gonna have an unboxing experience like this outside of the press

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so I'm not gonna talk too much about it. And,

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that's real neat. That says here on the top,

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built for the next generation of gaming in nice bronzeish coloring and copper.

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And yeah, we've got this here,

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CPU. So I guess these are the performance cores,

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these eights cores around the middle here.

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(playful music) These look like clusters of efficiency cores,

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and I'll get into what those are, momentarily. That's really nice, what's on the back?

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Oh, it's Alder Lake. That's cool.

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So yeah, the big thing about Alder Lake,

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it has two different kinds of cores. The performance cores,

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these big boys here in the middle, and the efficiency cores,

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these small guys that are in clusters of four

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on the side here. What that means is that these performance cores

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can handle your foreground tasks like your games or your 3D renders, that kind of thing.

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While the efficiency cores can handle your background tasks, things like Windows update or a virus scan or even,

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in some cases maybe like a code compile or something, if you don't really care that much about it.

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So, that makes it very different from any other x86 processor

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that has ever existed and very different from hyper-threading too,

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which is something that we've had for a while. Hyper-threading is supported on these, performance cores,

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but not on the small boys. It's got a little stand, I think.

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Yeah. - [Jono] That's cool. - Yeah. See - [Jono] There's a reckon

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to that. - You can show off Alder Lake or you can show off Alder lake.

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But it's just us who can show off Alder Lake because nobody else is getting one of these.

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This is actually like printed on metal. (metal clings)

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It's quite nice. - [Jono] Can I have it? - Um,

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no. No, that plank is cool, but there's more under here as well.

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So, these,

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are our new CPUs. Core i5-12600K.

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And the core i9-12900K. Yeah.

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So full disclosure.

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There's nothing in this. It is,

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in here. And the reason it's in here is because I'm already benchmarking it.

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It's like, what is today? 22nd.

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Right. And yup.

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I'm on that, I'm already on it. Yeah, so let's take a look (small box falls)

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at the core i5 and see what that looks like. It's a really different form factor.

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Actually um, can you get me a Intel CPU?

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- [Jono] Yeah. - That makes a lot of sense because the dye is just rectangular shaped,

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and it's actually a lot longer than it normally is because of those extra cores on the end.

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And presumably also because of the Intel Xe graphics

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that's baked into it as well. Okay, this is a core i7-11700K.

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(cheerful music) And, oh boy, that's actually quite a bit smaller.

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Is it smaller width wise? No.

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Just in terms of length. - [Jono] You're making everyone at home really uncomfortable

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with you sliding the chip like that. - Why? This is not a (sighs).

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(man laughing) (chips rubbing) - [Group Member] Anthony (man laughing)

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(Anthony chuckles) - Okay, so the IHS doesn't look

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significantly thicker, but it is a different shape

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that makes it look kind of thicker. So like it's pretty much the same height, I think.

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I think the fact that the IHS has so be so much bigger because it's a bigger chip.

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It just looks kind of more imposing. So normally on an Intel processor,

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you'd have these little notches on the left and right

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when you put it down to kind of lock it into position.

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Alder Lake, doesn't have that on the left and right, it has it on the top and bottom.

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So as you're sliding it into the socket, the top and bottom is whats kind of aligns it.

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Rocket Lake and Comet Lake only had them on the front

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and on the left and right. That's interesting.

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I was wondering why it was a little bit easier for me to kind of home this into the socket

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when I built up this bench here.

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I guess I'll have to show the socket soon too, huh? Well, let's get this cooler off and take a look.

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Yeah, that socket looks weird, doesn't it? Okay, let's take these nuts off.

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What we've got here there are actually two holes on each of these sides.

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That is because ASUS decided to support the previous arrangement.

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However, the official spacing is

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(playful music) quite a bit wider. It is that outer bit.

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Also you'll note on the back, the shape of this is actually different

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from the shape of a previous LGA socket, obviously,

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but there's no like little knock down here.

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It's actually very similar to,

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what is it similar to? I don't know. Unlike previous LGA is the socket itself.

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Yes, it's like that. Like the ARM has to be so long,

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um, but it doesn't pop up automatically.

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It's locking it down this way. So the lever here

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comes out towards the bottom of the motherboard rather than coming up from the top with the ARM.

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The ARM just locks that down in the position. Okay, this is a much bigger box.

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Um, as you can imagine, I've already been into it,

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but I haven't opened it properly. So let me open it properly.

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(kit tearing) Oh.

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Really? - [Brandon] Go from the other side.

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- Yeah, the other side kind of already ripped

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so I can just like stick my finger in there and, (kit tearing)

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This is an imposing box.

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and what's under?

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Ah, it's not a maximus number anymore.

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It's now a Maximus Z690, which honestly that's a lot easier to keep track of,

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thank you, ASUS. (grunting) Let's put this outta here.

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Oh, but wait, there's more, look inside.

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(kit rubbing) Um.

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Full disclosure, I'm not sure if this hasn't been modified,

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but as far as I know, this is standard

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and there's a little card in here. I don't think there's anything else in this section box,

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but there's another section of the box, which contains (grunts)

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an ROG Ryujin II 360 with LGA 1700 compatibility.

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Unfortunately we're not gonna be using that, we're gonna be using our NH-D15

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because we have more of those and they're the same,

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but this is really nice to have. Yeah, this is an update

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there are kind of three and a half inch full color LCD on this thing.

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With a 7th gen ASUS tech pump, interesting. I'm not sure what that means.

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Noctua industrial PPC fan. Okay, I'm starting to regret not using this.

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- [Jono] Oh! - Well, it's not too late,

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but the thing is I would need more Ryujin II 360s for the rest of our testing platforms

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so I'm not going to be using it, sorry ASUS. But, this is gonna make for

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some pretty sick builds later on. But it's a 360 millimeter radiator with 120 millimeter fans,

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(energetic music) How generic.

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It is handwritten and sharpie. - [Jono] Okay. - So, you know somebody actually took their time,

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the time out of their day to write that. One of the cool things with Alder Lake is the ability for to use a DDR5 memory.

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And that happens to be what I have right here.

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This Corsair Vengeance. We also have G.SKILL and this HyperX Fury RAM as well.

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This stuff here is rated for 5,200 megahertz

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or mega transfers per second, it says megahertz. So, sorry Dr. Katress

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with 38, 38, 38, 84 timings,

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which, that's a very different from DDR4,

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like very different. DDR4 is like in the teens for the first three of those

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and then in the 30s, maybe for the last one. But there's a lot of interesting things

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that DDR5 can do. First of all, it takes the power management interface

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from the motherboard and puts it on each of these modules.

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What that lets you do is each of these modules

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can control its own voltage and that can be baked into the XMP profile.

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So you can get that overclock dialed in with more voltage on this dim

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and not so much on this one because it doesn't need it.

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Let's see, what else do we have here? Right, PCI express 5.

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Not a thing we can test right now. There's no such thing as a PCI express 5 video card

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or really any card that I'm aware of, but the slot is there.

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And the CPU has a bunch of PCI express Gen 4 lanes

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as well to the chip set and to the storage.

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So overall IO is going to be a big thing

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for Alder Lake here. So Alder Lake already exists for sale, apparently.

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It was listed on Micro Center briefly,

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and apparently it was sold at a German retailer. So there are actual 12900Ks in people's hands right now.

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In fact, I wish I had the retail packaging because it looks pretty cool,

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even as cool as this looks.

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I would like to have it, but we're gonna have to buy it for that. In order to buy it,

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we're gonna have to shell out $619

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or 669, depending on where you look. - [Jono] Nice.

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- Nice, which is dangerously close to the 5950X.

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The 12900K is gonna have a total of 16 cores, eight and eight.

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So eight performance, eight efficiency along with hyper-threading cores for the eight performance cores.

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It's gonna be an interesting time. I think AMD is gonna be coming out

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with something similar in terms of, well, not necessarily IO,

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but a kind of a lateral thinking kind of thing with their V-Cache

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their vertically stacked cash on top of their cores in the next little while.

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For now, we'll just have to wait for the review to see if any of this makes any sense.

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- [Jono] Watch the retro tech stuff. - Retro time!

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I can't do it, it's retro time because it's not retro time right now,

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but when it's retro time you'll know.