CRUCIAL 16GB DDR4

If you’re trying to save some cash on your X99 build, Crucial has you covered        So, here it is. This is DDR4. Side-loaded into the new high-performance Intel X99 platform comes the next generation of system memory – and it’s a bit underwhelming on our desktop PCs. In the server space though it’s a different matter, because that’s where DDR4 gestated.       The main benefi of DDR4 over...

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INTEL CORE i7 5960X

More threads than a David lynch mini-series and just as powerful There sure is a lot of silicon given over to the graphical components of most of today’s processors. Intel’s standard Haswell architecture throws millions of transistors at its HD graphics component, and AMD’s latest Kaveri chips are only a couple of percentage points from being a complete half-and-half split between processor and graphics.       For us enthusiast-type...

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SCAN 3XS X99 CARBON

      The X99 Carbon has tipped up with an overclocked Intel Core i7 5820K, running at a decent 4.25GHz. This is the bottom rung of the Haswell-E ladder, but it’s arguably the most exciting and intriguing of the lot. Traditionally this position was held by an uninspiring quad-core chip, offering depressingly little over the non-enthusiast class Core i7s below it. The Core i7 5820K though is the cheapest six-core processor...

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