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The temperatures are fine and shouldnt be an area of concern. If you want to start looking into overclocking you are going to want to pick up a 3rd party HSF (heatsink/fan) to deal with the increased temperatures.

I would say no. At the best you are going to see around a 6% performance increase at the same clock speed and maybe a lower power bill (but not much).

I was in the generation before with an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6400 it was able to play most of the games I played at that time but I have since moved up to Intel Core i7-860 and just replaced that system with an Intel Core i7-3770K for my home system. Each move has given me improvements in...

The Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9400 is the better of the two processors.

I have mine Intel® Core™ i5-3570K running at 4.3GHz 24/7 on my work system.

I haven't heard or seen anything like this but you can give our technical support a call at 916-377-7000 they should be able to help you.

For the past couple years I have been building a new system with each new generation of our processors and replacing the system on my desk with a new one. I am really looking forward to what my next system has in store for me.

It all comes down to how the game is programmed. I have a friend who is a programmer and I asked him about this and he explained that it is very hard to add in additional support for threads on a game pasted about 3. They do one core or thread for video, one for sound and one for game...

The first computer I ever brought was a Packard Bell with a 75MHz Intel® Pentium® processor. I believe that it had a 520MB HDD that was just about full from the moment that I got it. After that I don't remember anything about this system.

Yes I know of at least a couple cases where people have damaged their processor by high voltage and static stocks. In these cases it is where the person has used such high voltages that there is no chance not to damage the processor. So let say you keep the temperatures under control and...

Go into the Bios and check to see if hyper-threading has been disabled,

I have an Intel® Core™ i5-3570K sitting on my desk here and I think it is one of the best gaming processors you can get your hands on. Matched up with a good board maybe something like the ASRock Z77 Extreme4 or the MSI Z77-GD65 and 8GB of DDR 3 1600 and you are going to have a good solid system.

There are really 3 differences between these two processors. The Intel® Core™ i7-3770K will have -ability to overclock by changing the multiplier -Intel HD 4000 Graphics. The Intel Core i7-3770 will have -support for VT-D (Virturalization with Directed I/O) also needs support...

The board that we have that could be used as a real gaming one is the Intel® Work Station Board W2600CR2.

The difference between the 2nd and 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors is come down to about 6% if you are not using the IGP (integrated graphic on processor). Now 6% performance improvement really isnt with the extra cost of upgrading at this time. In other year or two then maybe it...

For the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K you should expect to upgrade on a 3 year cycle in most cases. This of course is based on not overclocking. With overclocking you can get another year or two without pressing your system. So at least another year maybe two before you really might get some value...

I have never heard of a 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processor even coming close to that voltage. I would be shocked if you hadn't killed it or if you got lucky just damaged the board.

Three years ago the Intel® Core™ i7-920 was one of the better processors. Today it is still a good processor while it isnt as good as the Intel Core i5-3570K it will still allow you to game at a high level especially if you have it overclocked. So will the Intel Core i5-3570K still be...

It is stories like this that remind me of something we did in my college communications class. The teacher lined up the whole class and gave the person on the end a message that they were told to pass along to person next to us. By the time that message reached the end of the line it was so...

The simple fact is that we let let our engineers say what they need to connect with our new micro-architectures. This means that we at times we have said with a socket (like 775 for some time) or we change it every time we release a new micro-architecture (i.e. moving from 1156 to 1155). Eech of...

When the 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors were first being released a listed them at 95w in order to encourge the OEMs to make sure that they provide them with enough cooling. Once this got out we could drop back down to the 77w that was true for these processors.

While all processors are different I havent heard of an Intel® Core™ i5-3570K or Intel Core i7-3770K that is only hitting 3.9GHz at 1.25v. I was able to hit 4.6GHz with my Intel Core i5-3570K and was sitting at 1.25v but I didn't like the temperatures. So I would check to see if I could...

As the others have explained it is based on the how much you increase the voltage. In cases with a reasonable overclock of a processor that is keep cool the lifespan of a processor would most likely still be a lot longer than the amount of time you would keep the processor before upgrading.

In the end it really comes down to what you are going to be doing with the system. A system built around the Intel® Core™ i5-3570K, a board like the ASRock Z77 Extreme4, 8GB of DDR 3 1600, and a video card like the HD7770 or better will give you a good gaming system but it doesnt come...

I think I would get a Z77 board so that I could overclock in the future but I agree with the others this most likely isnt an issue of being bound by the processor.

The value of the Intel® Core™ i7-3770K vs. the Intel® Core™ i5-3570K comes down to what you are going to be doing with the system. If you are going to be doing some media creation type work than a lot of the applications can take advantage of the hyper-threading. However if you are...

I personally think that the Intel® Core™ i7-970 is still a viable processor for most applications. So based on what you are doing and going to be doing I believe that the Intel Core i7-970 can be a good processor for years to come.

Intel® ES processors are designed to be test beds to help us test for any issues. These processors are not designed to be sold and have no warranty with them. Here is some additional information on ES processors.

As the others have said it is all about the TDP. Heck a couple years ago I know of a major company that was working to buy a mass of our Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9550s for all their desktop systems since they would save over 30w per system.

Based on the old page for this board on Newegg.com it appears that the board is able to use the early Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors. So I would look to see if I could find one of these http://ark.intel.com/compare/27251,27250,29755,27249,29754,27248

+1 to m715 I would be willing to bet that most of the Intel® Core™ i5-3570K that we have sold will not be overclocked. While it does have that ability for a lot of us we simply won't need it. I think that the reason so many people promote the Intel Core i5-3570K is because it has so...

I am not going to say that it can't happen but I have not heard of anyone reaching 5GHz on an Intel® Core™ i5-2500K without upping the voltage a good bit.

If you could pick up some contact cleaner you might clean it off but unless you were having a problem I wouldn't worry about it,

Sounds like you are happy but I would warn you about buying ES processors http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-030747.htm

Like the outhers have said the Intel® Core™ i5-3570K for gaming and the Intel Core i7-3770K for media creation work.

I would simply pick up an Intel® Core™ i5-3570K (If you are gaming) or Intel Core i7-3770K (for media creation work) and a solid board like the ASRock Z77 Extreme4 and 8GB of DDR 3 1600. That should keep you under $550 even with the Intel Core i7-3770K.

The processors that are offered at Microcenter are not different than those that are being offered at Newegg or Amazon or even Mom and Pop’s computer shop down to the street. As far batch or any other numbers on a processor or any of our other products they are there for quality control. How...

If you pick up a new boxed processor it comes with a HSF that has the TIM pre installed on it so you dont need to worry about it. If you buy a OEM processor than you are going to need to get to pick up some TIM. As far as support for changing out the old Intel® Core™ i3 for a Intel...

As a general rule stepping up only a single generation in processors families doesnt make a lot of sense. However stepping up a couple can make a big difference in performance. So the question is how long are you willing to go before you make that step up on performance and how much is it going...

Here is the information on what the Intel® HD graphics are compable of.