Custom PC UK Magazine September 2017 Edizione posteriore

INTEL CORE i9
When Intel’s Broadwell-E CPUs were released a year ago, they didn’t offer anything particularly new, aside from the ten core Core i7-6950X, along with its ridiculously expensive price that broke the £1,500 barrier. Charging that much money for a ten core desktop CPU isn’t wise now though. This year, March saw the introduction of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, which were not only just as quick clock-for-clock as their Intel counterparts in many tests, but also offered more cores for the same or less money. Now it’s Intel’s turn to hit back, with its brand-new Skylake-X range of chips, starting with the sub £1,000, ten core Core i9-7900X.