Intel Core i9-9980XE – 18-Cores With Higher Clocks Last month, Intel announced the “Basin Falls Refresh” for their Core X-Series HEDT processors. Seven new parts were announced with the flagship of the series being the Continue reading “Intel Core i9-9980XE Extreme Edition Processor Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 13, 2018 at 2:50pm
Ice Lake is Intel’s codename for the 10nm CPU microarchitecture that is expected to arrive in 2020 to replace the Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake, Amber Lake and Cannon Lake microarchitectures. That is still some time Continue reading “Geekbench Results for 10nm Intel Ice Lake CPU Shows Larger Cache Sizes”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 23, 2018 at 6:51pm
9th Gen Intel Core i9 9900K The Intel Core i9-9900K 8-Core, 16-Thread LGA1151 95W desktop processor that was announced earlier this month is finally something you can walk into a store today and purchase! It’s Continue reading “Intel Core i9-9900K CPU Review – 9th Gen 8-Core, 16-Thread Benchmarks”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 19, 2018 at 10:03pm
There has been a lot of drama going on when it comes to benchmarking the Intel Core i9 9900k processor against rival AMD parts. AMD and its own Robert Hallock, Senior Technical Marketing Manager at Continue reading “AMD Tosses Best Benchmarking Practices Slides Out the Same Day Intel 9900K Launches”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Oct. 19, 2018 at 1:15pm
Principled Technologies (PT) has just published more testing data and a statement. It feels a little out that this is being released at 9:45pm ET on a Friday night and heading into the weekend, but Continue reading “Principled Technologies Apologizes For Test Settings in 9900K Report”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 13, 2018 at 2:17am
The Intel Core i9-9900K processor has arrived for benchmarking and our review will be posted on October 19th. We aren’t allowed to post any benchmark numbers until then, so we’ll just share you the ‘reviewer Continue reading “Intel Core i9-9900K Arrives For Benchmarking”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 10, 2018 at 12:21pm
The 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K is now available to pre-order on Amazon for $499.00 with a release date of October 19th, 2018! The Amazon listing shows that is the 8-core, 16-thread monster that we’ve Continue reading “Pre-Order The 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K CPU On Amazon For $499.99”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 8, 2018 at 10:33am
It is widely expected that Intel will launch the new Core i9-9900K processor this month and it appears a listing has appeared on Amazon for the CPU. Twitter user @momomo_us posted a screenshot of the Continue reading “Intel Core i9-9900K Processor Listed on Amazon”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Oct. 1, 2018 at 4:53pm
Legit Reviews was recently able to get a Lisa Pearce, Intel Vice President, Platform Engineering Group Director, Visual and Parallel Computing Group Software Engineering, to sit down and talk about iGPU and dGPU graphics drivers. Continue reading “Legit Reviews Exclusive: Lisa Pearce Interview on Intel Graphics Software”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Sep. 13, 2018 at 3:41pm
The Intel graphics team is keeping busy at Siggraph and launched an official Twitter account for the group. They posted their first Tweet and it is a ‘teaser’ that touts Intel’s past graphics achievements and Continue reading “Intel Will Join Discrete Graphics Card Market in 2020”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 16, 2018 at 4:50pm
Intel SSD 660p – 1st PCIe QLC SSDs for Mainstream PCs Today we will be looking at the world’s first consumer SSD to feature QLC (Quad Level Cell) NAND Flash. QLC NAND Flash once seemed Continue reading “Intel SSD 660p 1TB SSD Review With QLC NAND Flash”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 7, 2018 at 3:08pm
Intel Optane SSD 905P – Fast Storage For Enthusiasts When Intel released the Optane SSD 900P series in Q4 2017 they really upped the ante in the enthusiast storage market with a high-end 3D Xpoint-based Continue reading “Intel Optane SSD 905P 960GB Drive Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Aug. 2, 2018 at 5:36pm
Have you been waiting for Intel to release an 8-core, 16-thread mainstream processor for the Z370 or Z390 platforms? Our friends over at Coolaler has posted information about three unlocked Intel Core 9th gen series Continue reading “Intel Core i9-9900K Details Emerge on 8-Core Mainstream CPU”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 24, 2018 at 2:52pm
Amazon recently slashed prices on the AMD Threadripper series processors and you can now pickup the flagship AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X for $699.99 shipped (review). That is the lowest price it has ever been and Continue reading “AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs Get Prices Slashed Ahead of 2nd Gen Threadripper”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 18, 2018 at 1:21pm
Intel recently celebrated 40 years of the x86 instruction set by releasing the 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8086K processor and it can be picked up for $389.00 shipped. Intel introduced the first x86 series processor Continue reading “Intel Core i7-8086K Processor Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jul. 17, 2018 at 4:07pm