Intel's release of its second-generation Core (aka "Sandy Bridge") processing platform went off without a hitch—and we really liked the new line's flagship processor, the Core i7-2600K—until late ...

Today’s pre-launch of Intel’s Sandy Bridge-based processors should come as no surprise to anyone who even remotely follows the PC tech scene. We, along with Intel and numerous other companies and ...

The most expensive part we’ll see from this launch is the Core i7-2600K, at $317. It’s a quad-core offering that features eight threads and is clocked at 3.40GHz. Like the Clarkdale models released ...

Today we test and review Sandy Bridge, the Intel Core i7-2600K and Intel Core i5-2500K processors. We will pair the 2600K processor with the Intel Desktop Motherboard DP67BG and also run a test with ...

Intel looks to have an impressive value for money processor based on its new Kaby Lake architecture available, with the new Pentium G4560 costing just $64 - and it competes against processors worth 3x ...

PCMag Editors did not test the Intel Core i5-2500. We did, however, test and review the Intel Core i5-2500K (4.5 stars, Editor's Choice). A quad-core processor with a 3.7GHz max speed, the Intel Core ...

Back in the days of the Conroe CPUs, I compared Intel to a charging rhino. They are a big company that has a lot of weight and momentum behind them. Often there are times it can be hard for them to ...

Performance Summary: There are a number of performance related aspects to summarize here, including CPU, graphics, and motherboard / chipset performance. First let’s focus on CPU performance relative ...

Sandy Bridge really is a completely new architecture. The overall processor performance, really, is going to stagger you. And inside the die, merged deeply in there, we spot an integrated GPU (I ...

First a quick précis of our review chips. The Intel Core i5-2500K is a quad-core, quad-thread chip with 6MB of L3 cache memory and clocks in at 3.3GHz standard and 3.7GHz maximum Turbo frequency. It's ...

The idle power consumption of the 32nm Intel Core i7 2600K and Core i5 2500K processors is extremely low, especially considering that the above results are for the entire system, which includes a ...

In terms of basic layout, the Sandy Bridge architecture that underpins the new Intel Core i5-2500K and Intel Core i7-2600K desktop processors is not a revolutionary redesign. For launch, Intel has ...