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To Un-Socket or not to Un-Socket? That’s a Question for INTEL and AMD!

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One of the amazing things about the DIY PC market is the level of control and customizability you have to create whatever your heart desires. You can build something very inexpensively, or build something with the same top notch components that the best system builders use. Everyone has access to the same parts, but the combinations are endless. This of …

AMD’s Virgo Platform and Trinity A8-5600K / A10-5800K APUs Reviewed

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AMD finally moves forward with implementing a completely new module architecture across its processors. This move has been met with a lot of controversy thanks to high expectations from the first all new design in over a decade. While the rest of the Internet has already released their findings, we decided to spend some extra time to get to know the new …

Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge LGA1155 Processor Review

Intel 3rd Generation Ivy Bridge Processor

It’s for another processor launch from Intel. The new Ivy Bridge is a 22nm architecture based on the same LGA1155 socket as Sandy Bridge. It’s basically a shrunken die from Sandy Bridge (32nm) supporting many of the same features, but on the supporting Z77 chipset side (code named “Panther Point”), adds native USB 3.0, PCI Express 3.0, Lucid MVP and …

GIGABYTE G1 Killer Assassin 2 LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E ATX Motherboard Review

GIGABYTE G1 Killer Assassin 2 Sandy Bridge-E Motherboard 2

It’s been called the best looking gamer motherboard series since modding a PC became an in thing. GIGABYTE G1.Killer series has a tight hold on this market segment and doesn’t show any signs of loosening up on the rope. There are plenty of gamers thoroughly enamoured by the fine gaming features of the series such as Super Sight, Super Hearing and Super …

Intel’s NEW X79 LGA2011 Socket Platform and Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E Processor Reviewed

Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E Processor and X79 Motherboard Preview 1

It’s the “Year of the Tock” when Intel launches a revision of their latest processor architecture which is named Sandy Bridge. Instead of an all new name, it’s simply being called Sandy Bridge-E. The most obvious changes visible to the consumer eye is the addition of a fourth integrated memory channel, new supporting X79 Chipset and higher pin count LGA2011 …

Intel Next Generation Core i5-2500K and i7-2600K “Sandy Bridge” Processors Reviewed

Sandy Bridge is Intel’s next generation 32nm architecture processor adding to their already illustrious CPU genealogy. While Sandy Bridge is architecturally similar to the Core i3, i5, and i7 processors featuring an integrated memory controller and on-die integrated graphics, it is indeed a new beast.  The new on-die graphics core promises to change our perception of what integrated graphics can offer and …