 This video is brought to you by Cooler Master featuring the Sidon 240 millimeter all-in-one CPU water cooling system. Check it out at www.coolermaster-usa.com Welcome to my unboxing of Intel's fourth generation core series processor Codename has well and the reason for that is if you were to ask me Linus can I has I would say well You better make sure you have a new motherboard because this is an all-new chip on an all-new socket LGA 1150 is now the socket for this and it's a new chipset So we're using the Z87 chipset as opposed to the Z77 chipset that was the most current one on LGA 1155 so you're still going to have those same enthusiast features Overclocking is supported best on k-series skews. Of course. You've also got support for Smart response technology which is using SSD caching to accelerate your boot drive as long as everything's plugged into the chipset In fact, the Z87 supports six say to three ports natively as opposed to just two ones E77 and of course things like Lucid logic's virtue MVP so that you can use the onboard Graphics core on your CPU to do things like video transcoding and use the CPU for the things that it's best at so it's very similar To the previous generation platform, but more newer and more better, you know more USB 3 more SATA 3 all of that good kind of stuff Now this is Intel's second processor that uses a 22 nanometer manufacturing process The first was Ivy bridge which was a die-shrunk version of sandy bridge So Intel's tick-tock strategy for releasing CPUs means they will change the architecture then they'll shrink it then they'll change the architecture Then they'll shrink it so this is a new architecture that means that we should see the biggest performance improvements Usually with an architecture change versus with a process shrink However, this generation is going to be a little bit weird because the last one Ivy bridge we got a 10% IPC performance improvement versus sandy bridge in spite of the fact that it was just a die-shrink quote-unquote, so Based on that we're getting about another 10% with has well that might not seem like a generational gap Because it's the first time that the architectures changed since sandy bridge in theory But because it's been more of a gradual progression of changes. It's still pretty significant So it's about a 20% IPC improvement over the two generations now ago sandy bridge processors So which CPUs should you care about the answer is actually well It depends if you're an enthusiast and you want to overclock you're going to want a k-series CPU So the 2k series ones are the 4770 K and the 4670 K So the 4770 K is clocked a little bit higher 3.5 gigahertz all the way turboing up to 3.9 Versus 3.4 turbo into 3.8 for the 4670 K which is an i5 Also, the 4770 K features hyper threading due to its i7 heritage However, there's more to has well than just overclockable unlocked processors that perform really well These are both quad cores and that would be the lower power consumption part So has well has dramatically improved power consumption Due to some more advanced C states that allow the processor to turn itself way down to a very low power consumption state but still remain functional and With their beefed up onboard graphics offering up to three times the performance of the last generation Intel HD graphics then these chips will be very interesting particularly for entry-level gamers who aren't going to add a discrete graphics card to their system But still want to be able to play some modern games, which I think is very very cool Particularly think about this as well with that lower power consumption and that better graphics performance We're looking at a whole new world for things like ultrabooks and tablets Has well unboxing shot 3 take 3 We've got that same support for dual channel DDR3 memory But we're also getting some new instruction sets which over time as software becomes optimized for them could start to become a real advantage And the way overclocking is changed is kind of interesting as well So number one is that it now supports base clock straps, which means that you can actually change the base clock So remember the clock speed of your processor is determined by your multiplier and your base clock So you can now change your base clock as opposed to just your multiplier using straps on your board So you could go okay? I want to have you know a nominal base clock of 125 now And then I can make adjustments from there to my multiplier or even tweak it up and down a little bit That's cool That wasn't supported on Ivy bridge because as soon as you started to change the base clock more than a little bit It would throw other clocks on the motherboard such as your PCI Express clock completely out of whack and cause a no-post situation So that's neat another thing is they've integrated voltage regulation right on the CPU So what that means in theory is that pretty much all the way from you know an Asus channel level z87a board All the way up to something like a maximus 6 extreme you're going to have a pretty similar overclocking experience Until you start to get into very exotic cooling methods and very very high voltages Which is exciting because it means that from an affordability standpoint it's going to be more than It's about more than just how much the CPU costs which is going to be similar to last gen But you might be able to get away with squeezing more performance out of a less expensive board Which personally I find exciting Well thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at Haswell I'm going to probably call this a 4770k and 4670k unboxing because those are the ones I focus on Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for my unboxings reviews and other computer videos And I guess I should open the box at some point right? Why don't we do that? Here you go, got a heatsink, looks exactly like the Ivory Bridge one Got some thermal compound on the bottom for a pin PWM fan You're going to have a manual and a three-year warranty documentation in yours And you're going to have a CPU itself Yours won't look quite like this though because mine says Intel confidential And yours will say 4670k in this case or 4770k on the top Don't forget to subscribe