Intel Haswell 4770K & 4670K 4th Generation Core Series CPU Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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usa.com welcome to my unboxing of Intel's fourth generation core series
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processor code name has well and the reason for that is if you were to ask me
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lonus can I has I would say well you
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better make sure you have a new motherboard because this is an allnew
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chip on an all new socket LGA 11 50 is
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now the socket for this and it's a new chipset so we're using the Z87 chipset
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as opposed to the z77 chipset that was
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the most current one on LGA 1155 so you're still going to have those
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same Enthusiast features overclocking is supported best on K series SKS of course
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you've also got support for uh smart response technology which is using SSD
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caching to accelerate your boot drive as long as everything's plugged into the
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chipset in fact the Z87 supports six
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SATA 3 ports natively as opposed to just
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two on z77 and of course things like uh
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Lucid logic virtue MVP so that you can use the onboard Graphics core on your
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CPU to do things like video transcoding and use the CPU for the things that it's
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best at so it's very similar to the previous generation platform but more
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newer and more better you know more USB 3 more SATA 3 all of that good kind of
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stuff now this is Intel's second
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processor that uses a 22 NM manufacturing process the first was Ivy
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Bridge which was a die shrunk version of sandyb bridge so Intel's Tick Tock
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strategy for releasing CPUs means they will change the architecture then
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they'll shrink it then they'll change the architecture then they'll shrink it
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so this is a new architecture that means that we should see the biggest
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performance improvements usually with an architecture change versus with a
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process shrink however this generation is going to be a little bit weird
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because the last one Ivy Bridge we got a 10% IPC performance Improvement versus
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Sandy bridge in spite of the fact that it was just a die shrink quote unquote
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So based on that we're getting about another 10% with Haswell that might not
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seem like a generational Gap because it's the first time that the
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architecture has changed since Sandy bridge in theory but because it's been
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more of a gradual progression of changes it's still pretty significant so it's
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about a 20% IPC improvement over the two
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generations now ago Sandy Bridge processors so which CP should you care
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about the answer is actually well it depends if you're an Enthusiast and you
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want to overclock you're going to want a K series CPU so the 2K series ones are
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the 4770k and the 4670k so the 4770k is clocked a little
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bit higher 3.5 GHz all the way turboing
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up to 3.9 versus 3.4 turboing to 3.8 for
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the 4670k which is an i5 also the 4770k
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features hyperthreading due to its i7 Heritage however there's more to Haswell
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than just overclockable unlocked processors that perform really well
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these are both quad course and that would be the lower power consumption
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part so Haswell has dramatically improved power consumption due to some
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more advanced SE states that allow the processor to turn itself way down to a
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very low power consumption state but still remain functional and with their
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beefed up onboard Graphics offering up to three times the performance of the
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last generation int HD graphics then these chips will be very interesting
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particularly for entrylevel gamers who aren't going to add a discret graphics
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card to their system but still want to be able to play some Modern games which
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I think is very very cool particularly think about this as well with that lower
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power consumption and that better graphics performance we're looking at a
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whole new world for things like Ultrabooks and
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tablets hasell unboxing shot 3 take
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three we've got that same support for dual Channel DDR3 memory but we're also
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getting some new instruction sets which over time as software becomes optimized
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for them could start to become a real advantage and the way overclocking is
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changed is kind of interesting as well so number one is that it now supports
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base clock straps which means that you can actually change the base clock so
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remember the clock speed of your processor is determined by your
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multiplier and your base clock so you can now change your base clock as
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opposed to just your multiplier using straps on your board so you could go
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okay I want to have um you know a nominal base clock of 125 now and then I
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can make adjustments from there to my multiplier or even tweak it up and down
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a little bit that's cool that wasn't supported on ivybridge because as soon
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as you started to change the base clock more than a little bit it would throw
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other clocks on the motherboard such as your PCI Express clock completely out of
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whack and cause a no post situation so that's neat another thing is they've
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integrated voltage regulation right on
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the CPU so what that means in theory is
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that pretty much all the way from you know an ASUS Channel level Z87 a board
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all the way up to something like uh a Maximus 6 Extreme you're going to have a
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pretty similar overclocking experience until you start to get into very exotic
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cooling methods and very very high voltages which is exciting because it
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means that from an affordability standpoint it's going to be more than
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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
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able to get away with squeezing more performance out of a less expensive
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board which personally I find exciting well thank you for checking out my
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unboxing and first look at Haswell I'm going to probably call this a 4770k and
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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
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you go got a heat sink looks exactly
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like the ivy Bridge one it's got some thermal compound on the bottom for pin
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PW fan you're going to have a manual and a 3-year warranty documentation in yours
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and you're going to have a CPU itself yours won't look quite like this though
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cuz mine says Intel confidential and yours will say 4670k in this case or
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4770k on the top don't forget to subscribe