Intel Core i7 (3770) 3.4GHz Quad Core Processor 8MB L3 Cache 5GT/s Bus Speed (Boxed)

Title : Intel Core i7 (3770) 3.4GHz Quad Core Processor 8MB L3 Cache 5GT/s Bus Speed (Boxed)
ASIN : B007RMH1WY
Description : Intel Core i7 3770 34 GHz 4 cores 8 threads 8 MB cache LGA1155 Socket Box BX80637I73770 Components Processors CPU
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• Product Type:Processor

List Price : £244.99
Price : £226.99
Saved Price : £18.00

category: Products
brand: Intel
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Rating : 4.5
Review : Great CPU, great price.
I purchased this i7 3770 to make a new home ESXi 5.0 server to learn and test on. It's amazingly fast. I'm using it with 32GB of RAM and I can have 12 Windows 2008 R2 servers running various things from Exchange to SharePoint to SQL - all on this Core i7 at the same time. The only bottleneck with my setup is the hard-drives...

I've got Windows 7 x64 Ultimate running on the other hard drive in the computer, and it's absolutely lightning fast. All my games run smoothly - though lots of games use the graphics card more than the CPU, but if you don't have a good CPU then you will notice slowdowns. Editing large, 14 megapixel Canon RAW photos in Photoshop is amazingly smooth.

I have tried using the integrated graphics - and it's great for desktop applications on a 1920x1080 monitor, but don't expect it to work well for most modern computer games - you'll definitely want a dedicated graphics card for that.

I'd seriously recommend this CPU if you're...