Under pressure from a resurgent AMD, and with Qualcomm intent on entering the PC processor market, Intel has announced its next generation processor architecture. Called Sunny Cove, it will replace Intel’s current Skylake architecture and its derivatives starting from the second half of next year. Sunny Cove: An Improved Architecture
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At the CES 2017 exhibition in Las Vegas, Asus announced its complete 2017 lineup of motherboards based on the latest Intel Z270 Express chipset, designed to maximize the potential of 7th Generation ‘Kaby Lake’ Intel Core processors. The lineup includes the next-gen Republic of Gamers (ROG) Maximus IX gaming motherboards
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Intel’s flagship Skylake-EP Xeon E5 processor has been leaked on the web courtesy of a Chinese retail website. According to the leak, the flagship Xeon E5-2699 V5 Skylake-EP processor is going to take AMD’s Naples server platform head-on with a whopping 32 physical cores and 64 virtual threads. That’s an
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Chinese website Benchlife.info has accessed two internal Intel slides that reveal some key information about Intel’s X-series “Basin Falls” platform, comprising of Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X HEDT processors, and a chipset largely based on the upcoming Intel 200-series. The “Basin Falls” platform will succeed the current Broadwell-E LGA2011v3 lineup. Both
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Intel will launch Kaby Lake desktop processors in January 2017, and ahead of the unveil, details of the Core i5-7600K have leaked. The CPU will succeed the Skylake-based Core i5-6600K, and based on early reviews, we'll be looking at a 10% increase in performance. Other details of the Core i5-7600K
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First benchmark results of the upcoming Kaby Lake flagship Intel Core i7-7700K processor have surfaced online, courtesy of Geekbench. The Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake processor scored 6131 points in the single-core test and 20243 on the multi-core test, which is a decent improvement over what the current Skylake Intel
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Asus Republic of Gamers has announced that it has updated its G11 gaming desktop with the latest GTX 10-series Pascal graphics cards from NVIDIA for the ultimate VR gaming experience. The G11 lineup was introduced late last year, so apart from graphics, they are up-to-date as far as the rest
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MSI today announced a new motherboard aimed at enthusiast gamers, the Z170A Gaming M6. As you can easily guess by the name, the board is based on the Intel Z170 chipset. With an aim to appeal to gamers, the motherboard comes with an evil gray color scheme, which makes it
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ASUS' Deluxe series has been the vendor's marquee offering for several generations now. The Taiwanese manufacturer branched out into several lines aimed at gamers, enthusiasts, and overclockers, but the Deluxe series continues to be the flagship offering, loaded to the gills with features. And ASUS isn't one to shy away from bold
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On expected lines, Apple has refreshed its 12-inch MacBook with updated processors, better battery life, faster storage, and a new Rose Gold color option. The thinnest and lightest Mac now comes with the 6th Gen Intel Skylake dual-core Core M processors up to 1.3GHz, with Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz.
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Intel has silently updated its Skylake-U lineup with the new Core i7-6660U processor. For now, the CPU has only been spotted in the company’s price list. The mobile processor features two physical CPU cores with hyperthreading, 4MB of L3 cache, and a TDP of 15W. The core frequency is listed
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Chinese website Benchlife has published a leaked roadmap that suggests Intel Kaby Lake processors will be launched in Q3 2016. The Kaby Lake processors will still be manufactured on a 14nm node, similar to Intel Skylake. And just like Skylake, the initial lineup expected to launch in Q3 will consist
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VAIO has announced two new additions to its notebook lineup, its second major announcement as an independent brand. The new Z and S series models are both targeted at business professionals who need long battery life and portability. The new Vaio Z flagship notebooks come in two different form-factors –
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Intel has confirmed that its latest 6th Generation Skylake Intel Core processors suffer from a bug that causes the processor to hang or exhibit “unpredictable behavior” when running “complex workloads”. The bug was first discovered by the members over at hardwareluxx.de forums, and later by Mersenne.org. Apparently, running the Prime95
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Intel today introduced eight new processors to its Broadwell and Skylake family. The new additions include both desktop and mobile CPUs. The new processors announced today include the Celeron 3855U, Celeron 3955U, Core i3-6098P, Core i5-6402P, Core i5-5200DU, Core i5-6198DU, Core i5-5500DU, and the Core i7-6498DU. Out of these, the
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ASRock has released a new feature dubbed “SKY OC” that lets users easily achieve high overclocks on locked non-K Skylake processors. The feature is now available for the company’s Z170 based motherboards and can be enabled after downloading the latest BIOS update available on the support website. Once you have
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Popular mini PC maker ZOTAC expanded its ZBOX lineup with the introduction of the MI551 compact desktop. The new ZBOX MI551 is powered by an Intel Core i5-6400T quad-core processor, delivering desktop level performance while maintaining a low near-mobile level TDP. Other highlights of the new compact desktop include USB
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ASUS today announced the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Maximus VIII Hero Alpha motherboard, the world’s first motherboard to come with integrated RGB LED headers. The LGA1151 socket motherboard is based on the latest Intel Z170 Express chipset and supports the 6th Generation Intel Core processors. With the ROG Aura 4-pin
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Intel is working on a high-end NUC, which will be officially announced sometime in Q1 2016. Codenamed Skull Canyon, the system will be powered by a Skylake CPU and offer a Gen9 Iris Pro iGPU. While the chip vendor is yet to announce any concrete details over the platform, a leak out of
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ASRock today unveiled an affordable Intel Z170 chipset based motherboard with USB 3.1 support, the Z170X1/3.1. The ATX motherboard supports the latest 6th Generation Intel Core processors and up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR4 memory. As you’d expect from a Z170 based board, the ASRock Z170X/3.1 does support memory overclocking
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