WEBVTT 00:00:00.143 --> 00:00:04.560 - I've already seen what's in here. Intel's a bit of an underdog lately 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:09.130 and it feels great to be able to say that because they've been on top for so long 00:00:09.130 --> 00:00:12.980 and honestly were (energetic rock music) more or less responsible 00:00:12.980 --> 00:00:16.130 for stagnation in the CPU industry for so long 00:00:16.130 --> 00:00:20.290 that it feels really fitting. Today, maybe that changes a little bit 00:00:20.290 --> 00:00:23.810 because Alder Lake is unlike anything that has come before 00:00:24.830 --> 00:00:28.740 from anyone. at least in terms of desktop processors. 00:00:28.740 --> 00:00:32.320 I mean, Apple Silicon is technically similar, 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:35.440 but that's not x86 and it's not something you can go out 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:41.433 and buy for yourself unless you buy a Mac. So these CPU's are really special. 00:00:42.530 --> 00:00:47.370 And as a result, Intel decided to send over this here press kit 00:00:47.370 --> 00:00:51.970 to us in order to kind of drive home that specialness 00:00:51.970 --> 00:00:55.250 that makes it special. So there's a little magnetic flap here 00:00:55.250 --> 00:00:58.763 I mean, nobody's gonna have an unboxing experience like this outside of the press 00:00:58.763 --> 00:01:03.073 so I'm not gonna talk too much about it. And, 00:01:04.150 --> 00:01:07.560 that's real neat. That says here on the top, 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:13.940 built for the next generation of gaming in nice bronzeish coloring and copper. 00:01:13.940 --> 00:01:17.010 And yeah, we've got this here, 00:01:17.010 --> 00:01:20.350 CPU. So I guess these are the performance cores, 00:01:20.350 --> 00:01:23.870 these eights cores around the middle here. 00:01:23.870 --> 00:01:28.770 (playful music) These look like clusters of efficiency cores, 00:01:28.770 --> 00:01:33.780 and I'll get into what those are, momentarily. That's really nice, what's on the back? 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:37.570 Oh, it's Alder Lake. That's cool. 00:01:37.570 --> 00:01:39.933 So yeah, the big thing about Alder Lake, 00:01:41.100 --> 00:01:44.980 it has two different kinds of cores. The performance cores, 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:48.960 these big boys here in the middle, and the efficiency cores, 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:52.020 these small guys that are in clusters of four 00:01:52.020 --> 00:01:56.900 on the side here. What that means is that these performance cores 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:02.040 can handle your foreground tasks like your games or your 3D renders, that kind of thing. 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:08.890 While the efficiency cores can handle your background tasks, things like Windows update or a virus scan or even, 00:02:08.890 --> 00:02:14.040 in some cases maybe like a code compile or something, if you don't really care that much about it. 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:19.990 So, that makes it very different from any other x86 processor 00:02:19.990 --> 00:02:24.400 that has ever existed and very different from hyper-threading too, 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:30.950 which is something that we've had for a while. Hyper-threading is supported on these, performance cores, 00:02:30.950 --> 00:02:35.820 but not on the small boys. It's got a little stand, I think. 00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:39.303 Yeah. - [Jono] That's cool. - Yeah. See - [Jono] There's a reckon 00:02:39.303 --> 00:02:45.350 to that. - You can show off Alder Lake or you can show off Alder lake. 00:02:45.350 --> 00:02:48.860 But it's just us who can show off Alder Lake because nobody else is getting one of these. 00:02:48.860 --> 00:02:52.040 This is actually like printed on metal. (metal clings) 00:02:52.040 --> 00:02:55.190 It's quite nice. - [Jono] Can I have it? - Um, 00:02:55.190 --> 00:03:00.170 no. No, that plank is cool, but there's more under here as well. 00:03:00.170 --> 00:03:03.700 So, these, 00:03:03.700 --> 00:03:08.740 are our new CPUs. Core i5-12600K. 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:12.333 And the core i9-12900K. Yeah. 00:03:12.333 --> 00:03:15.340 So full disclosure. 00:03:15.340 --> 00:03:18.593 There's nothing in this. It is, 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:25.320 in here. And the reason it's in here is because I'm already benchmarking it. 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:27.283 It's like, what is today? 22nd. 00:03:28.330 --> 00:03:30.593 Right. And yup. 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:34.870 I'm on that, I'm already on it. Yeah, so let's take a look (small box falls) 00:03:34.870 --> 00:03:38.450 at the core i5 and see what that looks like. It's a really different form factor. 00:03:38.450 --> 00:03:42.263 Actually um, can you get me a Intel CPU? 00:03:42.263 --> 00:03:48.080 - [Jono] Yeah. - That makes a lot of sense because the dye is just rectangular shaped, 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:52.840 and it's actually a lot longer than it normally is because of those extra cores on the end. 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:56.500 And presumably also because of the Intel Xe graphics 00:03:56.500 --> 00:04:01.700 that's baked into it as well. Okay, this is a core i7-11700K. 00:04:01.700 --> 00:04:06.530 (cheerful music) And, oh boy, that's actually quite a bit smaller. 00:04:07.770 --> 00:04:10.603 Is it smaller width wise? No. 00:04:11.620 --> 00:04:15.214 Just in terms of length. - [Jono] You're making everyone at home really uncomfortable 00:04:15.214 --> 00:04:20.807 with you sliding the chip like that. - Why? This is not a (sighs). 00:04:21.997 --> 00:04:26.417 (man laughing) (chips rubbing) - [Group Member] Anthony (man laughing) 00:04:26.417 --> 00:04:31.250 (Anthony chuckles) - Okay, so the IHS doesn't look 00:04:31.250 --> 00:04:35.530 significantly thicker, but it is a different shape 00:04:35.530 --> 00:04:40.590 that makes it look kind of thicker. So like it's pretty much the same height, I think. 00:04:40.590 --> 00:04:45.430 I think the fact that the IHS has so be so much bigger because it's a bigger chip. 00:04:45.430 --> 00:04:50.500 It just looks kind of more imposing. So normally on an Intel processor, 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:54.100 you'd have these little notches on the left and right 00:04:54.100 --> 00:04:57.223 when you put it down to kind of lock it into position. 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:03.530 Alder Lake, doesn't have that on the left and right, it has it on the top and bottom. 00:05:03.530 --> 00:05:08.767 So as you're sliding it into the socket, the top and bottom is whats kind of aligns it. 00:05:08.767 --> 00:05:13.590 Rocket Lake and Comet Lake only had them on the front 00:05:13.590 --> 00:05:17.410 and on the left and right. That's interesting. 00:05:17.410 --> 00:05:22.480 I was wondering why it was a little bit easier for me to kind of home this into the socket 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:25.600 when I built up this bench here. 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:31.980 I guess I'll have to show the socket soon too, huh? Well, let's get this cooler off and take a look. 00:05:31.980 --> 00:05:36.760 Yeah, that socket looks weird, doesn't it? Okay, let's take these nuts off. 00:05:36.760 --> 00:05:40.450 What we've got here there are actually two holes on each of these sides. 00:05:40.450 --> 00:05:45.520 That is because ASUS decided to support the previous arrangement. 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:50.094 However, the official spacing is 00:05:50.094 --> 00:05:54.670 (playful music) quite a bit wider. It is that outer bit. 00:05:54.670 --> 00:05:59.050 Also you'll note on the back, the shape of this is actually different 00:05:59.050 --> 00:06:02.650 from the shape of a previous LGA socket, obviously, 00:06:02.650 --> 00:06:05.710 but there's no like little knock down here. 00:06:05.710 --> 00:06:08.463 It's actually very similar to, 00:06:10.210 --> 00:06:14.253 what is it similar to? I don't know. Unlike previous LGA is the socket itself. 00:06:15.190 --> 00:06:18.270 Yes, it's like that. Like the ARM has to be so long, 00:06:19.340 --> 00:06:22.520 um, but it doesn't pop up automatically. 00:06:22.520 --> 00:06:27.790 It's locking it down this way. So the lever here 00:06:27.790 --> 00:06:32.300 comes out towards the bottom of the motherboard rather than coming up from the top with the ARM. 00:06:32.300 --> 00:06:38.240 The ARM just locks that down in the position. Okay, this is a much bigger box. 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.740 Um, as you can imagine, I've already been into it, 00:06:41.740 --> 00:06:44.713 but I haven't opened it properly. So let me open it properly. 00:06:45.735 --> 00:06:47.783 (kit tearing) Oh. 00:06:50.100 --> 00:06:54.550 Really? - [Brandon] Go from the other side. 00:06:54.550 --> 00:06:57.630 - Yeah, the other side kind of already ripped 00:06:57.630 --> 00:07:02.087 so I can just like stick my finger in there and, (kit tearing) 00:07:05.200 --> 00:07:08.780 This is an imposing box. 00:07:08.780 --> 00:07:10.193 and what's under? 00:07:12.404 --> 00:07:16.380 Ah, it's not a maximus number anymore. 00:07:16.380 --> 00:07:21.570 It's now a Maximus Z690, which honestly that's a lot easier to keep track of, 00:07:21.570 --> 00:07:26.023 thank you, ASUS. (grunting) Let's put this outta here. 00:07:26.870 --> 00:07:30.981 Oh, but wait, there's more, look inside. 00:07:30.981 --> 00:07:34.023 (kit rubbing) Um. 00:07:34.900 --> 00:07:38.010 Full disclosure, I'm not sure if this hasn't been modified, 00:07:38.010 --> 00:07:42.750 but as far as I know, this is standard 00:07:42.750 --> 00:07:49.380 and there's a little card in here. I don't think there's anything else in this section box, 00:07:49.380 --> 00:07:55.440 but there's another section of the box, which contains (grunts) 00:07:55.440 --> 00:08:00.440 an ROG Ryujin II 360 with LGA 1700 compatibility. 00:08:01.610 --> 00:08:04.900 Unfortunately we're not gonna be using that, we're gonna be using our NH-D15 00:08:04.900 --> 00:08:08.290 because we have more of those and they're the same, 00:08:08.290 --> 00:08:11.410 but this is really nice to have. Yeah, this is an update 00:08:11.410 --> 00:08:14.940 there are kind of three and a half inch full color LCD on this thing. 00:08:14.940 --> 00:08:18.970 With a 7th gen ASUS tech pump, interesting. I'm not sure what that means. 00:08:18.970 --> 00:08:23.938 Noctua industrial PPC fan. Okay, I'm starting to regret not using this. 00:08:23.938 --> 00:08:27.540 - [Jono] Oh! - Well, it's not too late, 00:08:27.540 --> 00:08:31.730 but the thing is I would need more Ryujin II 360s for the rest of our testing platforms 00:08:31.730 --> 00:08:35.610 so I'm not going to be using it, sorry ASUS. But, this is gonna make for 00:08:35.610 --> 00:08:42.350 some pretty sick builds later on. But it's a 360 millimeter radiator with 120 millimeter fans, 00:08:42.350 --> 00:08:45.600 and it's got a six year warranty, which is a half of what our sponsor 00:08:45.600 --> 00:08:48.770 Seasonic can offer you. 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One of the cool things with Alder Lake is the ability for to use a DDR5 memory. 00:09:25.990 --> 00:09:29.060 And that happens to be what I have right here. 00:09:29.060 --> 00:09:34.630 This Corsair Vengeance. We also have G.SKILL and this HyperX Fury RAM as well. 00:09:34.630 --> 00:09:38.470 This stuff here is rated for 5,200 megahertz 00:09:38.470 --> 00:09:42.900 or mega transfers per second, it says megahertz. So, sorry Dr. Katress 00:09:42.900 --> 00:09:47.600 with 38, 38, 38, 84 timings, 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.810 which, that's a very different from DDR4, 00:09:50.810 --> 00:09:55.830 like very different. DDR4 is like in the teens for the first three of those 00:09:55.830 --> 00:09:59.970 and then in the 30s, maybe for the last one. But there's a lot of interesting things 00:09:59.970 --> 00:10:04.340 that DDR5 can do. First of all, it takes the power management interface 00:10:04.340 --> 00:10:07.900 from the motherboard and puts it on each of these modules. 00:10:07.900 --> 00:10:10.940 What that lets you do is each of these modules 00:10:10.940 --> 00:10:15.640 can control its own voltage and that can be baked into the XMP profile. 00:10:15.640 --> 00:10:20.000 So you can get that overclock dialed in with more voltage on this dim 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.560 and not so much on this one because it doesn't need it. 00:10:23.560 --> 00:10:27.053 Let's see, what else do we have here? Right, PCI express 5. 00:10:28.330 --> 00:10:32.810 Not a thing we can test right now. There's no such thing as a PCI express 5 video card 00:10:32.810 --> 00:10:36.040 or really any card that I'm aware of, but the slot is there. 00:10:36.040 --> 00:10:39.920 And the CPU has a bunch of PCI express Gen 4 lanes 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:44.140 as well to the chip set and to the storage. 00:10:44.140 --> 00:10:47.760 So overall IO is going to be a big thing 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:55.200 for Alder Lake here. So Alder Lake already exists for sale, apparently. 00:10:56.046 --> 00:10:59.130 It was listed on Micro Center briefly, 00:10:59.130 --> 00:11:05.810 and apparently it was sold at a German retailer. So there are actual 12900Ks in people's hands right now. 00:11:05.810 --> 00:11:09.180 In fact, I wish I had the retail packaging because it looks pretty cool, 00:11:09.180 --> 00:11:11.063 even as cool as this looks. 00:11:12.220 --> 00:11:15.483 I would like to have it, but we're gonna have to buy it for that. In order to buy it, 00:11:15.483 --> 00:11:18.700 we're gonna have to shell out $619 00:11:18.700 --> 00:11:21.760 or 669, depending on where you look. - [Jono] Nice. 00:11:21.760 --> 00:11:26.603 - Nice, which is dangerously close to the 5950X. 00:11:27.570 --> 00:11:31.153 The 12900K is gonna have a total of 16 cores, eight and eight. 00:11:31.153 --> 00:11:35.600 So eight performance, eight efficiency along with hyper-threading cores for the eight performance cores. 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.660 It's gonna be an interesting time. I think AMD is gonna be coming out 00:11:38.660 --> 00:11:43.640 with something similar in terms of, well, not necessarily IO, 00:11:43.640 --> 00:11:48.100 but a kind of a lateral thinking kind of thing with their V-Cache 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:52.440 their vertically stacked cash on top of their cores in the next little while. 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:57.250 For now, we'll just have to wait for the review to see if any of this makes any sense. 00:11:57.250 --> 00:12:01.500 And you can wait around here for a little bit. Maybe watch some more unboxings 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:05.970 that may or may not be more technical. Get subscribed, so you don't miss any in the future. 00:12:05.970 --> 00:12:09.033 - [Jono] Watch the retro tech stuff. - Retro time! 00:12:10.294 --> 00:12:13.700 I can't do it, it's retro time because it's not retro time right now, 00:12:13.700 --> 00:12:15.970 but when it's retro time you'll know.