Intel 3770K 3570K Ivy Bridge 3rd Generation Core CPU Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to a belated unboxing this is the Intel Sandy Bridge did I say Sandy
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Bridge cuz what I meant to say was Ivy Bridge lineup so I don't have the whole
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lineup here today but let's go over the general information about all of them
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first so at launch these are all 77 watt
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tdb processors what that means is that they actually produce less heat in terms
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of their spec at stock speeds than the last generation Sandy Bridge processors
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which were all 95 wat TDP processors what is also cool about these guys is
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the fact that they are all using Intel's new 22 nanometer manufacturing process
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that means more transistors in less space which basically means two things
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either cost savings for Intel which isn't of much concern to Consumers what
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do we care what Intel saves their cost on um but number two but wait there's
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more is in on the flip side of cost savings is that they can also not save
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the cost but Jam in more performance so this is a small upgrade to the
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architecture so they haven't jammed in too much more CPU performance although
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they've jammed in a heck of a lot more integrated graphics performance um where
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was I going with that but they have put in a little bit more performance and
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they're not charging any more for it and they do run cooler and yeah pretty much
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it's Ivy Bridge so let's go over the general lineup before we unbox one so
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these are apparently in some kind of an order ah they are in order okay but I
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would put them like this way to go slick okay and let's start over here so this
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is an i5 that means it is still quad
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core okay so back in the uh back in the Linfield days I5 pretty much meant dual
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core if I recall correctly no it didn't I'm wrong never mind I nbed out there
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okay so this is the I5 which means it does not have hyperthreading so it is
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four cores and four cores only it's a 3450 so the 34 indicates like lower
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General frequency performance and the 50
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means that it has Intel HD graphics 2500 from my testing HD graphics 2500 are
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approximately equivalent to the last generation Sandy Bridge HD 3000 so that
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is the higher end Graphics from the last generation is now equivalent to the
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lower end Graphics okay we have turbo boost technology 2.0 which basically
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means that if you're using fewer threads that is your running a game that's only
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single or dual threaded and you got four cores in here it will go ahead and ramp
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up the frequency as long as you're Cooling and uh and your power
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limitations think it's basically it's okay it'll do it um supports dual
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Channel DDR3 memory threeyear warranty integrated memory controller and smart
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cash technology okay most of those are not that relevant Beyond just it goes
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like really fast that's what all of that means okay next we've got the I5 3570k
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so a 35 means it's like better than a 34
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and then an i5 means it like also doesn't have hyperthreading and the K
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that's where oh no hold on the 70 means it has HD 4000 Graphics which are
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significantly faster than 32500 Graphics but still not as fast as
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AMD's Apu so something like a 3870k when
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it comes to direct X11 games although it is direct X11 ready and there is a
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benefit right right benefit okay so hd4000 Graphics the benefit it has over
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2500 and basically anything else is that it just destroys every other method of
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quickly transcoding videos so if you want to take like a folder full of
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videos that you ripped off of your DVD that you bought of some show that you
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like like you know gry's Anatomy for example um what you do is you just ceue
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up all don't give me that look you ceue up all the videos to to uh convert them
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to a format that is more acceptable for your given device so for example if you
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have an iPhone all you do is you use arsoft media converter 7 you say output
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to iPhone and then you give it a folder to Output to and you click go and then
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you tell it to use Intel's
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smart response technology no that's the U sorry that's the other one the ssds
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quicksync use Intel quicksync and what it does is it does it in like half of
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the time of any other solution so using all four dedicated CPU cores is still
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slower than using that integrated
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Graphics okay so AMD's Apu does not do
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that but it uh it does sort of Beat It in direct X11 gaming but uh this to me
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anyway is sort of more useful because I don't really use onboard Graphics anywh
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who right so this is uh oh everything's
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all out of order now this was over here right we were over here okay so the K ah
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the K means it's unlocked unlocked and Unleashed that means you basically
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overclock it as much as you want most IV
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Bridge processors from their stock frequencies of around 3. and change are
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good up to in excess of 4.5 gigz however
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when you overclock an IV Bridge processor what you will notice is that
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it gets pretty hot so you're going to want a pretty beefy cooler to go with
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your Ivy Bridge processor let's go ahead and move along so this is an i7 3770
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which means it has beefy Graphics it's like more better than this one cuz it's
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37 instead of 35 and it is an i7 that means it has hyperthreading so that
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means it has four physical cores and eight virtual overall cores including
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four virtual cores so four physical four virtual for eight total threads on this
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particular processor this is not a k which means you basically can't
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overclock it which means I mean in my personal opinion as an overclocker
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pretty much don't waste your money spend an extra couple bucks and go with this
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guy so this is the king of the castle
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when it comes to Ivy Bridge it's an i7 hyperthreading it's a 37 which means
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like more of the better rest than everything else it is a 70 which means
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you have fast video encoding and it is a k which means you can overclock it quite
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easily to an excess of 4.6 gigz which is what I'm running on my test bench it
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also has oh look at that has eight Megs of cash cool I didn't even realize the
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i5s only have six Megs of cash you learn something every day don't you look at
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that see it says right on the box eight Megs of cash six Megs of cash
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cool so why don't we do for our unboxing the 3770k since that is the hot skew
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that everyone in their dog is like super interested in hopefully it doesn't come
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with a plaster of Paris heat sink in the box and no CPU at all wink wink if you
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guys know what I'm uh what I'm referring to I'm sure it won't because this one
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came from NCIX where most of the CPUs that they sell are real CPUs and not
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made of yeah plaster okay inside we find
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a CPU this has 1,155 pads on the back which correspond
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to 1,155 pins in your z77 z68 or even
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p67 motherboard assuming your motherboard manufacturer goes ahead and
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updates the BIOS for you it comes with a sticker o it's
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shiny as well as a three-year Limited warranty in logo and installation
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instructions guide book which we're not going to open it's basically pretty dry
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and it comes with a stock cooler which I would pretty much recommend that you
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hold on do we have a garbage can that I can like totally go for like an epic
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jump shot into uh okay whatever especially if
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you're overclocking I would definitely recommend something more along these
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lines or like these lines wo there's
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like bolts and stuff okay these lines so
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this is Intel's cooler which is pretty beastly and pretty
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cool and yeah because Ivy Bridge does
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get pretty toasty and does does draw more power once you've overclocked it so
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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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