Since then, Intel brought to market their 14 nm Broadwell CPU architecture, on their mainstream platform, through their “tick-tock” cycle. That “extreme” CPU shook up the landscape then by providing the consumer with a high clocked, octo-core CPU with a total of 16 threads. The king of the consumer hill used to be the mighty i7-5960X our friend Dino reviewed back in August of 2014. Today we are going to get a chance to review Intel”s next processor in their High-End Desktop (HEDT) platform.
