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processor code name has well and the reason for that is if you were to ask me
lonus can I has I would say well you
better make sure you have a new motherboard because this is an allnew
chip on an all new socket LGA 11 50 is
now the socket for this and it's a new chipset so we're using the Z87 chipset
as opposed to the z77 chipset that was
the most current one on LGA 1155 so you're still going to have those
same Enthusiast features overclocking is supported best on K series SKS of course
you've also got support for uh smart response technology which is using SSD
caching to accelerate your boot drive as long as everything's plugged into the
chipset in fact the Z87 supports six
SATA 3 ports natively as opposed to just
two on z77 and of course things like uh
Lucid logic virtue MVP so that you can use the onboard Graphics core on your
CPU to do things like video transcoding and use the CPU for the things that it's
best at so it's very similar to the previous generation platform but more
newer and more better you know more USB 3 more SATA 3 all of that good kind of
stuff now this is Intel's second
processor that uses a 22 NM manufacturing process the first was Ivy
Bridge which was a die shrunk version of sandyb bridge so Intel's Tick Tock
strategy for releasing CPUs means they will change the architecture then
they'll shrink it then they'll change the architecture then they'll shrink it
so this is a new architecture that means that we should see the biggest
performance improvements usually with an architecture change versus with a
process shrink however this generation is going to be a little bit weird
because the last one Ivy Bridge we got a 10% IPC performance Improvement versus
Sandy bridge in spite of the fact that it was just a die shrink quote unquote
So based on that we're getting about another 10% with Haswell that might not
seem like a generational Gap because it's the first time that the
architecture has changed since Sandy bridge in theory but because it's been
more of a gradual progression of changes it's still pretty significant so it's
about a 20% IPC improvement over the two
generations now ago Sandy Bridge processors so which CP should you care
about the answer is actually well it depends if you're an Enthusiast and you
want to overclock you're going to want a K series CPU so the 2K series ones are
the 4770k and the 4670k so the 4770k is clocked a little
bit higher 3.5 GHz all the way turboing
up to 3.9 versus 3.4 turboing to 3.8 for
the 4670k which is an i5 also the 4770k
features hyperthreading due to its i7 Heritage however there's more to Haswell
than just overclockable unlocked processors that perform really well
these are both quad course and that would be the lower power consumption
part so Haswell has dramatically improved power consumption due to some
more advanced SE states that allow the processor to turn itself way down to a
very low power consumption state but still remain functional and with their
beefed up onboard Graphics offering up to three times the performance of the
last generation int HD graphics then these chips will be very interesting
particularly for entrylevel gamers who aren't going to add a discret graphics
card to their system but still want to be able to play some Modern games which
I think is very very cool particularly think about this as well with that lower
power consumption and that better graphics performance we're looking at a
whole new world for things like Ultrabooks and
tablets hasell unboxing shot 3 take
three we've got that same support for dual Channel DDR3 memory but we're also
getting some new instruction sets which over time as software becomes optimized
for them could start to become a real advantage and the way overclocking is
changed is kind of interesting as well so number one is that it now supports
base clock straps which means that you can actually change the base clock so
remember the clock speed of your processor is determined by your
multiplier and your base clock so you can now change your base clock as
opposed to just your multiplier using straps on your board so you could go
okay I want to have um you know a nominal base clock of 125 now and then I
can make adjustments from there to my multiplier or even tweak it up and down
a little bit that's cool that wasn't supported on ivybridge because as soon
as you started to change the base clock more than a little bit it would throw
other clocks on the motherboard such as your PCI Express clock completely out of
whack and cause a no post situation so that's neat another thing is they've
integrated voltage regulation right on
the CPU so what that means in theory is
that pretty much all the way from you know an ASUS Channel level Z87 a board
all the way up to something like uh a Maximus 6 Extreme you're going to have a
pretty similar overclocking experience until you start to get into very exotic
cooling methods and very very high voltages which is exciting because it
means that from an affordability standpoint it's going to be more than
it's it's about more than just how much the CPU costs which is going to be similar to last gen but you might be
able to get away with squeezing more performance out of a less expensive
board which personally I find exciting well thank you for checking out my
unboxing and first look at Haswell I'm going to probably call this a 4770k and
4670k unboxing because those are the ones I focus on um don't forget to
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guess I should open the box at some point right why don't we do that here
you go got a heat sink looks exactly
like the ivy Bridge one it's got some thermal compound on the bottom for pin
PW fan you're going to have a manual and a 3-year warranty documentation in yours
and you're going to have a CPU itself yours won't look quite like this though
cuz mine says Intel confidential and yours will say 4670k in this case or
4770k on the top don't forget to subscribe