iT’s hard To believe, but after decades of
making CPUs, Intel has finally broken the 4GHz
barrier with its Devil’s Canyon—which isn’t really all that new, of course. It’s essentially an
Intel Core i7-4770K but made to overclock like
a mother. To do that, Intel beefed up the CPU’s
power delivery with additional capacitors and
used a “next-generation polythermal interface
material” that’s supposed to be far better than
current thermal paste or goo in 4770K parts.
This, loyal readers, adds up to a chip that starts
at 4GHz and has a turbo boost of 4.4GHz.
Other than that, it’s still the same Haswell
microarchitecture we’ve come to love. The 22nm
question, though, is how far could we overclock
this chip that was built explicitly for overclocking? A duplicate part in this month’s Build It
section hit 4.7GHz on a CLC. We’re expecting
more—but not much more—as few have taken
Devil’s Canyon’s parts above the best Haswell
chips. In many ways, the best way to think of
Devil’s Canyon is that every chip is “good,” while
it was a crap-shoot with the original Core i7-4770K parts.
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