Today I explain what Intel Turbo Boost technology does for you, but mostly I’m just showing the cool little gadget that they’ve created which monitors how much your CPU is overclocking itself at any given time.

I know I’m a little late to the party, but I got an opportunity to get my hands on a Core i7 Extreme 975 and I thought I’d unbox it just for fun :p

Wow. I can’t believe they’re here already. I was expecting these to take quite a bit longer!

Unlike all of the other test floating around on the web, I actually paid for these. That’s right, more than $2500 in hard drives for 320GB of storage. That’s a cost of $7.6/GB! Evidently I’ve completely lost my mind, but I’m confident that the performance and overall speediness of my machine will justify the upgrade. Let’s hope I’m right *gulp*. RAID 0 performance on ICH10R and a 3Ware 9690SA-4I PCIe 8x hardware RAID card to follow!

I’m very excited!

Well the new NCIX Tech Tips is here. We didn’t have any samples to work with until only a few days before the retail launch, so we’ve spent a lot of time playing with these chips, researching online, and putting together this overclocking guide for the Core i7.

It’s not as in-depth as I would necessarily like, but at 8 minutes long it’s already a bit of a heavyweight. The white board I had in front of me looked like some of my calculus lectures!