Kaby Lake continues its takeover our CPU recommendations.
Kaby Lake has now replaced all of the Skylake CPUs except for some low-end Skylake Celerons in our Minimum tier. (Since H210 motherboards are not out yet, we cannot find suitable motherboards for Kaby Lake Celerons.)
2017 is set to bring us some interesting new developments in PC hardware technology. Let’s talk about possibly the most interesting technologies on the horizon from AMD: The Ryzen CPUs and AM4 Motherboards.
Kaby Lake is the first CPU series under Intel’s new Tick-Tock-Tack strategy (a.k.a Process, Architecture, Optimization). Previously, Intel would shrink it’s last generation’s CPU (a Tick), and then introduce a new microarchitecture at that size in the next generation (a Tock). Now Intel shrinks a CPU (Tick), makes a new microarchitecture (Tock), then “optimizes” it. What does “optimize” mean? That is left up to the reader to decide, as “optimize” is not defined by Intel.
Ladies and gentlemen, it has begun! We’ve have been waiting a year for Black Friday sales, andNewegg’scurrent Black Friday deals are great!
These sale prices are guaranteed to be the best prices on these parts through Black Friday, which means you can safely buy them now without worrying about a better deal showing up on Black Friday.
We’ve gone throughNewegg’scurrent pre-Black Friday deals, and picked out the best deals on PC components.
These sale prices are guaranteed to be the best prices on these parts through Black Friday, which means you can safely buy them now without worrying about a better deal showing up on Black Friday.
OurMinimum,Entry, andModesttiers have been updated with Intel’s Skylake Celeron and Pentium CPUs. These are cheap, low-tier CPUs that are decent for a tight budget.
What is the best high-end CPU? The 3 best consumer-grade options are theBroadwell-Ei7-6900Kandi7-6950X, and the olderHaswell-Ei7-5960X. We previously recommended thei7-5960Xover the neweri7-6900Kin ourbuild guidefor NVIDIA’s GTX 1080, because of the older CPU’s superior overclocking potential. Here we will compare the pros and cons of these CPUs in more detail, so that you can make the best choice.
Intel has launched its latest set of high-end CPUs, the Broadwell-E series. This is a set of 4 CPUs, at $450, $650, $1100, and $1750 price points.
We have added the following CPUs to theLogical Increments parts list:
Prepare yourself for lots of AMD news this year.
We are finally getting some solid information about upcoming AMD releases this year, so let’s get straight to it:
Newegg.comtends to have some of the best sales on PC parts out of any online stores, and today (January 27), they are having a good one!
A lot of these prices are as low as I saw on Black Friday.