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Haswell is Back as Intel Reverses 22nm CPU End-of-Life
With the launch of the Haswell line of processors back in 2013, a significant portion of them represented Intel’s more ‘budget-friendly’ line of CPUs. These models were essentially designed to give a solid, if unremarkable, level of performance. For the sake of some of you already feverously typing in the…
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Intel Ready To Rollout Spectre Fix For Haswell and Broadwell
Intel Continues to Rollout Fixed Spectre Microcode Last November, Intel learned about the new Spectre and Meltdown bugs. Since then, the company has been scrambling to issue bug fixes to mitigate the flaws. After stumbling a lot out of the gate, Intel has managed to find their footing. Following on…
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Intel Haswell and Broadwell Reboot Issue Cause Identified
Several days ago, Intel disclosed issues surrounding the update for fixing the recent Meltdown and Spectre flaws are actually causing problems on some systems. This update works perfectly fine on Skylake, Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake systems. However, it appears to be problematic for those on Broadwell or Haswell. Specifically,…
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Intel Security Fix Causing Reboot Issues on Haswell/Broadwell
Intel processors are the most hard hit with the the recent Meltdown and Spectre flaw revelations. Now it appears that the security firmware update designed to address the flaw is causing some issues for others. Specifically, those with Broadwell or Haswell CPUs experiencing reboot problems. This affects not just those…
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Intel Releases Final Haswell iGPU Windows 7 and 8 Drivers
After nearly 4 years on the market, it looks like Intel has had enough of Haswell. First launched in 2013, the Haswell architecture was the first major tock over the highly successful Sandy Bridge release. In addition to the new 4th generation Core architecture, Intel also dramatically improved the capabilities of the…
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AMD Zen SiSoftware Benchmarks Spotted
In a few months time, AMD will finally be releasing their new Zen CPUs. Based off of a whole new architecture, the new design has been touted to offer over 40% IPC over their current chips. Some reports have suggested that this means AMD will come in somewhere around Haswell/Broadwell levels…
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Flaw in Intel Haswell CPUs Bypasses Critical Security Protection
Every now and then, a major bug pops up in PC hardware. Sometimes, these bugs aren’t too serious but they can have a large impact like AMD’s Phenom TLB bug. This time around, it’s Intel’s turn to suffer a hardware CPU bug. According to researchers from the University of California, Intel’s…
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der8auer Delid Die Mate Coming Soon to Caseking
Today der8auer unveiled his newest device for overclocking, the Delid Die Guard. The device makes removing the lids of CPUs so easy that even my mother could do it. The preferred method of the past has been the vice method for removing lids and unfortunately with the new Skylake CPUs the PCB…
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Intel Withheld Haswell Shipments in order to Push Skylake Sales
While PC sales have been slower over the past few years, it looks like Intel had been planning for such an occurrence. According to market data, Intel withheld processor shipments for the first half of the year in order to prepare the channel for the Skylake chips that launched in…
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Intel Skylake μArch Analysis from IDF 2015
Despite launching the i7 6700K and i5 6600K based off the Skylake μArch earlier this month, Intel has kept the wraps on the μArch till IDF [Intel Developer Forum] 2015 today. We finally know what improvement and tweaks Intel has done to make Skylake a tad bit faster than Haswell. While Intel…
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Rumors Suggest AMD Zen Instruction Set Parity with Haswell/Broadwell
While AMD has released some details about Zen at their Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, details have still been a bit scant. What we already know is that Zen will have a 40% IPC increase compared to Excavator, bringing AMD’s IPC much closer to Intel’s in one jump. Zen…
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Leaked Skylake Slides Suggest Focus on iGPU
More Skylake details have leaked out ahead of its August launch and this time around, we’re being treated to what appears to be official Intel slides. Once again, it seems like Intel is emphasizing the iGPU side of things though we do see that Intel expects some decent IPC gains…
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Cannon Lake Goes Missing – Rumors Point to Ice Lake After Kaby Lake
The latest report on Intel’s roadmap shows an interesting turn of events. Intel is supposedly scrapping Cannon Lake, the 10nm chip series meant for 2017, in favour of Ice Lake. This chip will launch after Kaby Lake which itself, is set for 2016 as a replacement for the delayed 10nm…
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Intel Skylake i7-6700K Benchmarks Leaked
Another batch of Skylake benchmarks have leaked out a little under a month before the expected launch. This time we have the Intel i7-6700K on an ECS Z170-Claymore paired with 16GB of 2133Mhz DRR4, 128GB SSD and a GTX970. For comparison an i7-4790K on an MSI Z97A Gaming 6 with…
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Thecus Demonstrates Their Newest NAS’ at Computex 2015
Computex 2015 – Thecus makes some amazing NAS units and we’ve also stopped by their booth at Computex to check out what news they might have in the bags. On display is everything from high-end enterprise rack-servers such as the N16850, W16000, and N8880U-G units as well as the newest…
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