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Renders of AMD AM5 Socket (Zen 4) Leak Online
It’s been well speculated for several months now that with the launch of the new AMD Ryzen Zen 4 processors (expected late next year), Team Red, for the first time under the Ryzen consumer name, will be transitioning itself to a brand new socket design. Known (or at least speculated)…
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List of AMD Threadripper TR4 Socket Compatible CPU Coolers
AMD‘s Threadripper CPUs are now officially on their way. However, due to its massive CPU size, many are wondering what CPU cooler options are available for it. Unlike the Ryzen AM4 which uses a pin-grid array, the new TR4 socket uses land grid array and mounts by sliding into the…
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Intel May Increase Mainstream Core Count for Cannonlake
Intel has long limited the mainstream platform to 4 physical cores, with 8 threads due only to Hyper-Threading. This has held true for the longest time, with power users who wanted more cores making the jump to LGA 1366 and 2011. According to an Intel CPU engineer profile, Intel will start…
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Intel Prepping 5×5 Mini PC with LGA Socket
Users have long been chiming for a smaller form factor smaller than the current mini-ITX. Intel does have the NUC (Next Unit of Computing) and other vendors have their solutions. Most of these are quite limited in upgradeability and tend to have few if any expansion slots, limiting functionality. In response…
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Intel Launches Broadwell Desktop At Last
Delayed so long that rumors were spreading that there would never be a desktop launch, Intel has at last launched Broadwell for the desktop. The meant to follow the Haswell Tock, Broadwell was aimed at improving efficiency, quite minor tweaks and a move to the 14nm process. The complexity of 14nm…
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Intel’s New Serverboard Supports Dual CPU and 2TB RAM
If a lot isn’t enough for you, then Intel might have what you’re looking for. Their latest server motherboard, the S2600CW2, has been spotted for sale in Japan and not only has 2 Intel LGA2011-v3 sockets, but also supports up to 2TB RAM. The motherboard supports CPUs up to a…
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More Details On Intel Skylake Revealed: 14nm, DDR4, Low TDPs
Intel is supposed to be launching their Skylake platform at some stage in 2015. Skylake will succeed Broadwell and it will be a “tock” in the Intel Tick-Tock model as it maintains the same 14nm process node but opts for a new microarchitecture. Skylake will bring DDR4 memory support and…
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6 New Boards On The Horizon From MSI for Intel’s 5th Gen Chipset
Over the last few weeks we have been hearing some interesting information come to light regarding Intel’s 5th Generation chipset and its Haswell Refresh processors and with a launch date of 11th May only a matter of weeks away now, we are starting to see snippets of information come through…
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Intel Roadmap Reveals More BGA Package CPUs
Intel’s BGA processors are definitely going to become a bigger part of Intel’s portfolio in the future and by the looks of things these BGA packages are mainly designed to transform the bottom segment of the market – that is Pentium, Celeron and Atom processor segmentations. The latest roadmap has…
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Intel’s Haswell To Ship In Three BGA Packages
There has been much speculation in the industry about whether Intel will stop making LGA package processors in favour of BGA package processors. Well, this speculation may have some traction in the long term but in the short term we can see that Intel are doing very little with Haswell…
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Intel Decided To Stick With LGA Platform With Skylake Chips
Intel has updated its longterm roadmap, the roadmap indicated that Intel isn’t pushing the BGA platform into the desktop market and therefore eliminating the upgradability factor in PC Desktop platforms. It also showed that the upgradeable LGA socket mounting will be used at least till 2015. Intel would stick with…
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