Enlarge / Intel’s HX-series laptop processors bring the company’s desktop CPUs into high-end, high-powered laptops. (credit: Intel) Earlier this year, Intel announced three iterations of its 12th-generation Alder Lake CPU architecture for laptops: the U-series, which covers thin-and-light Ultrabooks, the P-series for thin-and-light workstation laptops, and the H-series for beefier workstations and gaming laptops with […]
Enlarge / Intel’s 12th-gen Core i3 and i5 CPUs are good options if you want good performance but need to save money. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) It hasn’t been a great time to build a computer on a budget. Some of that is due to ongoing supply issues and a particularly nasty GPU shortage (albeit one […]
Enlarge (credit: Intel) Not to be outdone by the upcoming release of AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D , Intel is placing one more Alder Lake desktop CPU at the top of its 12th-generation Core desktop lineup. The Core i9-12900KS (the “S” is for “special edition”) is a 16-core, 24-thread chip (eight P-cores and eight E-cores) with […]
Enlarge / Intel’s 12th-generation Core chips are coming to laptops. (credit: Intel) We came away impressed when we tested Intel’s top-tier 12th-generation desktop chips. Though still power-hungry compared to competing AMD Ryzen processors, their combination of big performance cores (P-cores) and clusters of small efficiency cores (E-cores) helped them shine under all kinds of workloads, […]
Enlarge / Intel is giving its desktop processors their first top-to-bottom overhaul in years. (credit: Intel) Intel released its first 12th-generation Core desktop processors a little over two months ago , and we were pretty impressed with the results ; the chips still consume a lot of power, but they generally come with the performance […]
Enlarge / Burned out MOSFETs on an Asus Z690 motherboard. (credit: Reddit user Duhjahno ) Intel’s high-end 12th-generation Core processors use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat, but Asus’ ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard takes things to the next level. A “potential reversed memory capacitor” in some boards can cause them […]
Enlarge / Our test rig marries the Alder Lake i9-12900K (pictured) or an i5-12600K with 64G DDR5 SDRAM, an MSI Carbon motherboard, SK Hynix Gold NVMe SSD, and Apex Gaming 850M PSU. Cooling is provided by a Corsair fluid cooler and triple fan radiator. (credit: Jim Salter) After spending several days with Intel’s newest consumer […]
Enlarge / Intel’s first 12th-generation desktop processors are arriving soon. (credit: Intel) Intel’s 11th-generation desktop computer processors, codenamed Rocket Lake, didn’t impress us much . They were Intel’s sixth processor architecture based on some version of Intel’s 14nm manufacturing process and the first not to use an iteration of the venerable Skylake core from 2015 […]
Enlarge / It’s a bit too early for photos of Alder Lake-S CPUs, much less Raptor Lake-S—so here’s a gorgeous photo of an alder tree on the shore of Llyn Gwynant, in North Wales’ Snowdonia National Park. (credit: R A Kearton via Getty Images ) It looks like big. little CPU design—an architecture that includes […]
Some initial specs for the new Core i9-11900K. [credit: Intel ] The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would venture into extreme detail on major new 12th-generation CPUs, but nonetheless, the company hosted a press conference this morning that laid out a few new evolutions of the 11th-gen CPUs […]