I'm gathering components for my new build which will consist of an i7 2600K CPU and all the other crap necessary. I want to get everything but what is unavailable yet (CPU and motherboard) so that I ...

So, I just specced a system, and want to know if there's something horribly wrong with it. I'm shooting for upgradeability, specifically with memory and SLI. Now, from everything I've read there's no ...

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 there are times it can be hard for them to ...

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 ...

After gawping at the performance of the quad-core, non-Hyper-Threaded Intel Core i5-2500K for a while, we turned our attention to the Core i7-2600K. This 3.4GHz quad-core, eight-thread CPU dominated ...

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 ...

Intel takes a giant step forward with the Core i7-2600K, one of its inaugural Sandy Bridge CPUs, in terms of both value and media processing. Its much-touted onboard graphics won't displace what you ...

3DMark06's built-in CPU test is a multi-threaded DirectX gaming metric that's useful for comparing relative performance between similarly equipped systems. This test consists of two different 3D ...

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 ...

Last time we saw so much hype around an Intel processor was when the six-core performance powerhouse Gulftown- Intel Core i7-980X was launched. Gulftown is still the fastest desktop processor on the ...

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, ...

Intel Core i7-2600K : CPU The Intel Core i7-2600K is one of Intel's first Sandy Bridge processors. With four processing cores, eight threads, and a clock speed of 3.4 GHz, it's also a powerful ...