Reviewers Liked
- Intel's latest architecture adds new features. Improved performance
- Better performance and graphics for the same price as Ivy Bridge
- Better Quick Sync
- BCLK Straps
- Fastest quad-core consumer chip in the world
- IGP up to 50 per cent faster
- Class-leading power consumption
- Better temperatures than Ivy Bridge series
- Very low power consumption under both idle and load
- More memory overclocking options
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Draws slightly more power than previous designs
- Less headroom for overclocking
- New motherboard required for LGA1150
- Early chips show limited overclocking potential
- Only incremental CPU performance improvements over Ivy Bridge
- Still only 16 PCI-E lanes