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2008 was an interesting year the Large Hadron Collider was fired up for the first time there was an histórico lection in the US we were all treated to that incredible Olympic ceremony in Beijing and M night Shyamalan olan olan made another horrible movie wait this is a tech channel oh right yeah it also marked intel's adoption of a brand new naming scheme for its cpus with the high end of its processor range becoming Core i7 for the first time although curiously these chips contained four cores and eight threads which anyway nine years later Intel is expanding this scheme again with the I 9 and I'm not talking about an extensive Bavarian concept our Intel is now calling its highest end consumer processors core I 9 so once again there won't be a nine core model in the mix the first core ions are part of the skylake X family continuing with Intel theme of releasing enthusiast level CPUs with a one generation older microarchitecture than the mainstream processor family however unlike mainstream parts core I nine SKUs feature 10 cores on the lowest end with models with 12 14 16 and even 18 cores forthcoming as well and they all feature hyper threading meaning you'll get anywhere between twenty and thirty six threads so it's not surprising then that Intel is pushing these new chips as solutions for what it calls mega tasking a term defined by the Intel marketing department as simultaneously running multi-threaded hard hitting workloads like gaming streaming and recording on multiple monitors at once content creation like video audio and image editing for the same project at once or you know what to hell with it we've got 18 processors why not do both at once Intel is also boasting of performance improvement - in lightly threaded workloads in addition to the usual claims of slightly boosted raw IPC over the previous generation they've also updated turbo boost 3.0 now all core I nines and the core i7 78 20x will feature two preferred strongest cores for turbo frequencies and overclocking that is better than the others instead of just one strongest core which could benefit applications like CPU bound games that might use more than one core but won't take significant advantage of more than two but whether you're getting a core i9 and updated core i7 or even for some reason a KB Lake X Core i5 or Core i7 these new chips will all use the new LGA 2066 socket so they won't be backwards compatible with any older boards the good news go is that thanks to the shiny new X 299 chipset you'll get support for up to three PCI Express 3.0 x4 SSDs with a total of up to 44 PCIe lanes directly off the CPU so then depending on which CPU you choose that can mean tons of bandwidth for more graphics cards more nvme storage and other expansion cards that need lots of throughput - like Thunderbolt 3 for example of course all of this is going to come at a price with core I nine CPUs starting at a cool one thousand US dollars all the way up to two grand for the top-end 18 core model yikes and even though KB Lake X processors will start at the mid 200s they lacked quad channel memory support and have fewer PCIe lanes so folks will effectively be paying extra for features on pricey high-end motherboards that they won't even be able to use unless they upgrade their CPU down the line but whatever you choose to buy or not buy all of this is definitely good news in that competition is finally ramping up in the CPU industry for the first time in over half a decade so you know what I say go red team and also go blue team I just want faster computers in general I don't care who wins speaking of who wins you can win by installing tunnel there VPN tunnel bear lets you tunnel through one of 20 different countries allowing you to browse the internet and use online services as though you are in a different country they've got easy-to-use apps for iOS Android PC and Mac also a Chrome extension and all you got to do there's like no configuration whatsoever you just choose a country press the button and watch as your bear tunnels your internet connection to your new location your connection gets encrypted and your public IP address gets switched so you show up as some anonymous person from some friggin country somewhere they also have a top rated privacy policy and don't log user activity so try out for free with 500 Meg's of free data at the link in the video description and when you sign up for an unlimited plan make sure you go to tunnel bear comm / Linus so you can save 10% so thanks for watching guys dislike or like check out our other channels and subscribe so you don't miss any videos here on tech looky-loos great Channel