Intel’s two new Core i7 CPUs (860 and 870) are mid-range counterparts to its top-of-the-line Core i7 900-series chips, and initial tests (using Intel’s new DP55KG motherboard) indicate their ...
I am currently running on an i7-860 system with 8GB of RAM that I built in early 2010. System runs fine and I have no issues with either speed or anything but I am looking towards putting together a ...
Is Hyper-Threading worth it? Although Hyper-Threading has been available in various Intel CPUs since the Xeon MP in 2002, Intel deems it so important that it's Hyper-Threading support (and not ...
Surprisingly MaxxMem² reports very little difference in memory bandwidth between the Core i7 920 and the new Core i7 860 processor. Despite utilizing a triple-channel memory controller, the Core i7 ...
Lynnfield CPUs overclock in a very similar way to LGA1366 Core i7s. The only significant difference is overclocking the Base Clock with Lynnfield compared with the QPI of LGA1366 Bloomfield CPUs. As ...