Special editions of Sandy Bridge for overclockers

It has long been known that Intel has decided to significantly reduce the potential for overclocking processors Sandy Bridge, "tying" and other subsystems of the processor at the same clock. Fortunately, however, for overclockers, it seems to move around and modified models, which will have multiplier unlocked and available for experimentation.



The order K of Sandy Bridge will include models with identical "normal", the only difference being the unlocked multiplier (and the price, of course). Within the IDF carried out in San Francisco, Intel has made an initial demonstration of a Sandy Bridge K, who arrived in the frequency of 4.9GHz and with cooling by air. Those present said that the cooler used was very similar to the stock cooler of the Core i7 980X.



Not announced what exactly was the Sandy Bridge used on the show, but most are betting that this is the Core i7 2600K, with factory frequency 3.4GHz. If true, we are talking about overclocking the order of 45% air, which leaves many promises for the future.



So far, no information on an even Sandy Bridge K, beyond 2600, the Core i5 2500K. Rumors, in fact, indicate that prices will move in the range of $ 230 for a "small" processor and $ 350 for "great".

30 million dollars in investments by Intel

Intel Capital, Intel's investment company will invest more than $ 30,000,000 in four technology startups. Intel said that the money comes from the line of 200 million U.S. dollars which had been announced that will invest in February.



This investment plan is designed to support technology companies in the U.S., and recruit new graduates from colleges.



The four companies which are funded are, Adaptive Computing, based in Utah to design software for data centers and cloud computing, Ciranova from Santa Clara, the company deals with software design integrated, Jovent from San Francisco, which Intel Capital has invested in the past and deals with the infrastructure needed for cloud computing solutions, and Nexant, also from San Francisco which is the subject of clean energy and services on this track.

Processors Zacate from AMD are faster than the Core i5

AMD, presented a modern platform Zacate, argues that the new generation of APU's performance over a Core i5 and even used two demo to prove its allegations. These processors feature integrated GPU, and is the result of the Fusion architecture and core Llano, facing delays in the difficulty of lithography 32nm, as well as being its youngest members.


The claim that the newer chip is to perform better than the last generation of processors from Intel, based on two demos and a sample of Zacate, who had two cores Bobcat, but to provide more information . In the adversary system was a Core i5, with a core speed of 2,4 GHz. In the demo of Internet Explorer 9 called "Pyschedelic Browsing" The difference was really chaotic. The second presentation was based on the game City of Heroes, by simple movement of the character to take an average number of frames per second. The performance of the Core i5 was the order of 15-20 fps, while Zacate exceeded 30 fps.Although the most likely release date is in early 2011, so far there is no official announcement. More information and presentations are due in November.

Overclocked at 7.3GHz for Intel Core i5 655K

Overclocker Duck managed to overturn the record overclocking the Core i5 655K from Intel, launching its incidence in 7307.8MHz. As we know, such frequencies are high demands on the cooling and the duck used liquid nitrogen to keep the CPU temperature low enough to function normally.



The great leap from the factory frequency of 3.2GHz to 7.3GHz was achieved by increasing the bus 221.5MHz, while the coil reached 33. The voltaz went to 2.011V. The system that became the new record-110MHz more than the previous record of Core i5 655K-contained motherboard EVGA P55 3X SLI Classified, graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 to the factory frequencies and 2GB A-DATA DDR3 at 1328 MHz.



The world record in absolute terms regardless of the model still has a Celeron 347 in 65nm, who has reached unrealistic frequency of 8.2GHz. Processors to AMD, the crown keeps the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition with a frequency of 7127MHz.

IBM announced the fastest processor in the world

The quad-core desktop PC with an operating frequency above 3.0GHz considered for some time high-performance products, but the processor has just announced that IBM is giving new meaning to the word "speed." The innovative company has the technical specifications of the z196, with new quad-core processor (default) frequency of operation is set at unrealistic levels of 5.2GHz.



Thus, the z196 is automatically designated as the fastest processor in the world, taking the crown from the IBM Power6 4.7GHz. The z196 has no more, no less, 1.4 billion transistors, or about 300 million more than the exapyrinous processors from Intel. All this in an area of 512 square millimeters, made using the technology of 45 nanometers.



Each core has 1.5MB L2 cache and the shared L3 eDRAM cache has a capacity of 24MB. It is not, so the possibilities of the new processor that IBM has decided to add and L4 cache, which connects different processors in a multi-chip module (MCM). We are talking about a common L4 cache capacity 192MB, through liaison with speed 40GB per second.



Of course, this processor is not addressed in the mainstream market and will contribute the exclusive mainframes to IBM. The price has not been announced yet, but I will move the region of hundreds of thousands of euros less per item.