jimmysmitty
Champion
Grandmastersexsay :
jimmysmitty :
speaker1234 :
After checking the specs according to the source website there are a few differences, including:
Thermal Monitoring Technology
Anti-Theft Technology
Trusted Execution Technology
vPro Technology
What do these actually do? Your guess is as good as mine.
Thermal Monitoring Technology
Anti-Theft Technology
Trusted Execution Technology
vPro Technology
What do these actually do? Your guess is as good as mine.
Thermal Monitoring Technology does just what it says. It monitors the thermals of the CPU. It basically keeps the CPU at or below its maximum TDP. Not sure if this is truly a separate feature than what's already in other Intel CPUs (such as SpeedStep or the C states).
The Anti-Theft is pretty neat. It allows you to send a code that you have created to kill the system if it is stolen. Keeps sensitive data from the bad peoples hands.
TXT (Trusted Execution Technology) is pretty much another level of security much like Secure Boot. It allows the system to only boot in trusted mode with a trusted OS.
And as for vPro, its been around for a while and some of Intels desktop models have it (normally DT Xeons or higher end models). Its a hardware level security and management system. It has the ability to allow for a admin to remote into the system on a hardware level instead of a software level. Its pretty neat stuff and I have always wanted to try it.
This CPU is pretty much best in a business environment more than a home desktop PC.
Is this the NSA version of the 4770k?
I don't trust anything marketed as trusted. Sounds like it might not run some, if not any version of Linux. To be a trusted OS it probably has to have a government approved back door.
No this is stuff Intel has been implementing a while ago, well before the NSA stuff. The NSA stuff is because of Windows 8, and most of this is hardware level not software level.
striker2237 :
Grandmastersexsay :
dontknownotsure :
but im still happy with my 2600k
No one would care if you were still happy with your abacus, let alone an older chip set. Your statement is completely vacuous and without substance. You don't think the 10% or more clock for clock performance increase is worth the couple hundred dollars it would cost to upgrade. Fine. The same argument could be made no matter what era chip set you owned. No one cares about your completely subjective opinion based solely on how much a dollar is worth to you. That is except for the rest of the people like you who are bothered by not having the best. They love it. The rest of us though, we could do without your need for self validation.
10% more clock for clock......but what happens when the 2600k is running at 4.8ghz and the 4770k at only 4.2? Its a factor you know............
Overclocking is honestly a bit overkill these days. Before it used to be nice to be able to get better performance. But now the CPUs are so damn fast that overclocking brings diminishing results at the cost of more power usage and higher temps. Plus it degrades the CPU faster and since the process is getting smaller it will degrade even faster on smaller process nodes.
Intel is even finding a way to add extra cores that can be activated when a core goes bad.
Still the 2600K is a good CPU and will be for a while longer.