Hey all and welcome to the new year! We've mentioned in some other reviews that 2011 is going to be a very significant year in the processor industry as we'll be faced with two changes. The first ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Intel takes a giant step forward with the Core i7-2600K, ...

The Sandy Bridge lineup is comprised of several desktop and mobile Core i7, Core i5 and Core i3 processors that will effectively replace most of the current offerings under those series. An additional ...

Today’s pre-launch of Intel’s Sandy Bridge-based processors should come as no surprise to anyone who even remotely follows the PC tech scene. We, along with Intel and numerous other companies and ...

Intel’s quad-core, eight-thread Core i7-2600K came this close to cracking our Full Nerd podcast’s inaugural PC Hall of Fame and for damned good reason. The Sandy Bridge-era flagship delivered a ...

The name of the fastest Sandy Bridge is Core i7 2600K and we can give you an inside in the new naming scheme. First of all you will know that it’s a Sandy Bridge if you see a name with four digits ...

Sandy Bridge really is a completely new architecture. The overall processor performance, really, is going to stagger you. And inside the die, merged deeply in there, we spot an integrated GPU (I ...

According to SiSoftware Sandra 2011, the dual-channel memory bandwidth of the new Intel Core i5 2500K and Core i7 2600K processors is comparable to that of the Core i5 750. As you can see the Core i5 ...

The new Sandy Bridge-based Core i5-2500K and Core i7-2600K processors performed right about where we expected them too in the various SiSoft SANDRA tests. In the Processor Arithmetic and Multimedia ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Back in the days of the Conroe CPUs, I compared Intel to a charging rhino. They are a big company that has a lot of weight and momentum behind them. Often ...