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Intel’s New Top Dogs

INTEL HAS some new high-end processors: 12 chips aimed at the HEDT and workstation market. No, they don’t sport a new core architecture or a die shrink. They are all iterations of existing designs, but they are faster. And much cheaper.

Of most interest to us are the four new Cascade Lake X-series chips, aimed at the high-end desktop market. The top model is the Core i9-10980XE, with

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