


Its socket could not have been picked out in a parade of predecessors, just one additional pin to separate it from the Haswell’s design whilst the clan of CPUs destined to inhabit it totalled an impressive ten, with wattages ranging from 91 to 35, though only two headline acts surfaced on the date of launch, an i7 captain backed up by his i5 lieutenant, binned from their bunkers at 4 and 3.5 ghz with official maximums of 3.9 and 4.2 and each armed with an unlocked multiplier.