Ivy Bridge is all about transitioning towards a new, smaller fabrication process. Whereas Clarkdale (Core i5 661 etc.) processors had a 45nm GPU and a 32nm CPU core placed onto one chip package, Sandy ...

I built my current gaming rig in late 2012 with an Asrock z77 Extreme4, the 3570k which I have overclocked to 4.4ghz (CM 212+ HSF. I ordered the Cryorig h7 since it was on sale in hopes of getting up ...

Editor Note: Intel or GIGABYTE did not sanction this preview in any way. We are posting this well ahead of launch since some other well-known tech sites have already covered Ivy Bridge performance and ...

Intel Ivy Bridge content hasn't just been leaking for weeks, but we've been seeing results come for the past few months including content coming from us. Last month we looked at both the Intel Core i5 ...

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 ...

Performance Summary: Intel made summarizing the Core i7-3770K’s performance nice and easy—it is the fastest quad-core processor the company has released to date. The small IPC improvements, in ...

The improvements to the i7-3770K’s IPC (instructions per clock) are immediately apparent in Cinebench, where its score of 7.91 at its stock frequency of 3.5GHz (boosting to 3.9GHz) sees it achieve a ...