[dba-Tech] Chip terminology

Hello All,

When I buy i5's, I only but the K models as they are the best to overclock.

With a mild overclock on a machine last week, I recorded a CPU Win
Experience Index of 8.3.  I had an SSD also, and that was 8.2.

The processor was the new i5 Haswell 4670K.  This was the fastest PC I have
ever built.  Makes me wonder what the haswell i7 4770K is like.

I have recently build a few PCs with these very fast I5 K processors
overclocked to 4.4, 4.6 GHz and with only an SSD disk.  The users have big
smiles on their faces.

FYI to Overclock I do the following

1) go into bios
2) change the multiplier from Auto 4.2 or 4.4 or 4.6 or 4.8 depending on
what I want.
3) Save and exit

I do nothing else, no messing around with voltages etc.

The processor I had last week was hovering around 25 - 30 degrees Celsius
with that overclock.


I am thrilled with it,

Mark









On 19 October 2013 13:26, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not necessarily. I5's have either 2 or 4 cores according to all the spec
> lists including Intel sites. Look it up yourself.
>
> All have 4 theads but some do it with two cores with two threads per core.
>
> GK
>
> On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > An i5 intel should have 4 cores.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 5:51:31 AM
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] Chip terminology
> >
> > Belarc Advisor tells me my laptop contains a 2.5 Gz Intel Core i5-3210M
> > CPU. Beneath that it says Multi-core (2 total)
> > Hyper-threaded (4 total)
> >
> > Which I take to mean that it's a dual-core chip, but I don't understand
> > what the Hyper-threaded number means. Can someone clue me in?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
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