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welcome to a belated unboxing this is the Intel Sandy Bridge did I say Sandy Bridge because what I meant to say was Ivy Bridge line up so I don't have the whole line up here today but let's go over the general information about all of them first so at launch these are all 77 watt TDB processors what that means is that they actually produce less heat in terms of their spec at stock speeds then the last generation Sandy Bridge processors which were all 95 watt TDP processors what is also cool about these guys is the fact that they are all using Intel's new 22 nanometer manufacturing process that means more transistors in less space which basically means two things either cost savings for Intel which isn't of much concern to consumers what do we care what Intel saves their cost on but number two but wait there's more is and on the flipside of cost savings is that they can also not save the cost but jamming more performance so this is a small upgrade to the architecture so they haven't jammed in too much more CPU performance although they've jammed in a heck of a lot more integrated graphics performance but they have put in a little bit more performance and they're not charging any more for it and they do run cooler and yeah pretty much it's Ivy Bridge so let's go over the general line up before we unbox one so these are apparently in some kind of an order are they already ok but I would put them like this way to go slick ok and let's start over here so this is an i-5 that means it is still quad-core ok so back in the back in the Linfield days i-5 pretty much meant dual-core if I recall correctly no it didn't I'm wrong nevermind I didn't go there ok so this is the i-5 which means it does not have hyper threading so it is 4 cores and four cores only it's a 34 50 so the 34 indicates like lower general frequency performance and the 50 means that it has Intel HD graphics 2500 from my testing HD graphics 2500 are approximately equivalent to the last generation Sandy Bridge HD 3000 so is the higher end graphics from the last generation is now equivalent to the lower end graphics okay we have turbo boost technology 2.0 which basically means that if you're using fewer threads that is you're running a game that's only single or dual threaded and you got four quarters in here it will go ahead and wrap up the frequency as long as you're cooling and and your power limitations think it's up basically it's okay it'll do it supports dual channel ddr3 memory through your warranty integrated memory controller and smart cache technology okay most of those are not that relevant beyond just it goes like really fast that's what all of that means okay next we've got the i-5 35 70 K so 35 means it's like better than a 34 and then an i-5 means it like also doesn't have hyper threading and the K that's where oh no hold on the seventy means it has HD 4000 graphics which are significantly faster than 3000 and 2500 graphics but still not as fast as AMD's apu so it's something like a 38 70 K when it comes to DirectX 11 games although it is DirectX 11 ready and there is a benefit benefit okay so HD 4000 graphics the benefit it has over 2500 and basically anything else is that it just destroys every other method of quickly transcoding videos so if you want to take like a folder full of videos that you ripped off of your DVD that you bought of some show that you like like you know Grey's Anatomy for example what you do is you just queue up oh don't give me that look you queue up all the videos to and to convert them to a format that is more acceptable for your given device so for example if you have an iPhone all you do is you use arcsoft media converter seven you say output to iPhone and then you give it a folder down put to and you click go and then you tell it to use Intel's Smart Response technology no that's the sorry that's the other one of the SSDs quick sync use Intel Quick Sync and what it does is it does it in like half of the time of any other solution so using all four dedicated CPU cores is still slower than using that integrated graphics okay so Indy's apu does not do that but it it does sort of beat it in DirectX 11 gaming but this to me anyway is sort of more useful because I don't really use onboard graphics anywho right so this is uh everything's all out of order now this was over here right over here okay so the cake ah the cake means it's unlocked unlocked and unleashed that means you basically overclock it as much as you want most accurate processors from their stock frequencies of around three point and change are good up to in excess of 4.5 gigahertz however when you overclock an Ivy Bridge processor what you will notice is that it gets pretty hot so you're gonna want a pretty beefy cooler to go with your Ivy Bridge processor let's go ahead and move along so this is nice seven thirty seven seventy which means it has beefy graphics it's like more better than this one cuz it's 37 is 235 and is nice seven that means it has hyper-threading so that means it has 4 physical cores and 8 virtual overall course including 4 virtual cores a for physical for virtual for eight total threads on this particular processor this is not a K which means you basically can overclock it which means I mean in my personal opinion as an overclocker pretty much don't waste your money spend an extra couple bucks and go with this guy so this is the king of the castle when it comes to Ivy Bridge it's an i7 hyper-threading it's a 37 which means like more of the better than everything else it is a 70 which means you have fast video encoding and it is a K which means you can overclock it quite easily to an excess of 4.6 gigahertz which is what I'm running on my test bench it also has that house 8 Meg's a cache cool I didn't even realize the I fives only have 6 makes of cache you learn something every day don't you look at that stuff right on the box each makes of cache 6 makes of cache cope so why don't we do for our unboxing the 3770k since that is the hot skew that everyone and their dog is like super interested in ok it doesn't come with a plaster of Paris heatsink in the box and no CPU at all wink wink if you guys know what I'm not but I'm referring to I'm sure it won't because this one came from NCIX where most of the CPUs that they sell our real CPUs and not native yeah plaster ok inside we find a CPU this has 1155 pads on the back which correspond to 1155 pins and your z77 z68 or even p67 motherboard assuming your motherboard manufacturer goes ahead and updates the bios for you it comes with a sticker with shiny as well as a three year limited warranty Intel logo and installation instructions guide booklet front opens basically pretty dry and it comes with a stock cooler which I would pretty much recommend that you hold on do we have a garbage can that I can like totally go for like an epic jump shot into okay whatever especially if you're overclocking I would definitely recommend something more along these lines or like these lines there's like bolts and stuff okay these lines this is intel's cooler which is pretty beastly and pretty cool and yeah because Ivy Bridge does get pretty toasty and does does draw more power once you've overclocked it so I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my Ivy Bridge unboxing however late it may have been and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews another computer video