Intel seems to have struck gold once again with their new Sandy Bridge architecture, which they introduced in early 2011. Intel seems to have struck gold once again with their new Sandy Bridge ...

Intel takes a giant step forward with the Core i7-2600K, one of its inaugural Sandy Bridge CPUs, in terms of both value and media processing. Its much-touted onboard graphics won't displace what you ...

Hey all and welcome to the new year! We've mentioned in some other reviews that 2011 is going to be a very significant year in the processor industry as we'll be faced with two changes. The first ...

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Today we test and review Sandy Bridge, the Intel Core i7-2600K and Intel Core i5-2500K processors. We will pair the 2600K processor with the Intel Desktop Motherboard DP67BG and also run a test with ...

Back in the days of the Conroe CPUs, I compared Intel to a charging rhino. They are a big company that has a lot of weight and momentum behind them. Often there are times it can be hard for them to ...

Intel's October 2017 update to the Core i5 (see on Amazon(Opens in a new window)) and Core i7 (see on Amazon(Opens in a new window)) were the first major shift in core counts since Sandy Bridge in ...

Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors–and the best that AMD had to offer–with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today ...

It feels as though Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPU launch has been death by 1000 delays. Following the huge success of its Sandy Bridge architecture last January, and the uncompetitive response from AMD in the ...

To evaluate the Ivy Bridge processors, we used the Asus Maximus V Gene, one of several Z77 motherboards we are putting through their paces in the bit-tech lab right now. To test the AMD FX-8150 we ...