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I love Intel as much as anyone.

They make cool products, they engage in lots of community stuff, and I mean, heck, they're even a major sponsor of my other channel.

But man, when it comes to confusing product naming schemes, I think Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 takes the cake.

I mean, great question!

What is a Core i7 4790K?

What the heck does all of this even mean?

We'll get to that, but first a bit of background about why we need product names for processors.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just label them with how many gigahertz they run out and call it a day?

Simpler.. sort of, but at times actually even more confusing.

For example, when the Pentium 4 launched, an equivalently clocked Pentium 3 was actually faster because it could do more work with each cycle.

As a customer, I would expect the product with the higher number to be the better one.

And therein lies the problem.

Not all megahertz and gigahertz are created equal,

and rating products that way is about like rating the performance of a car based on what RPM the engine runs at.

It's not actually a real indication of how fast the processor is, but it happened.

Now, one of AMD's attempts to move away from this started in the early 2000s with their PR

or performance rating naming scheme, where their processors were given a four -digit model number

that enthusiasts believe was based on the performance AMD felt that they delivered compared to an Intel CPU of that clock speed.

But this fixed nothing.

They were still indirectly naming according to clock speed, and it wasn't until Intel introduced the core series,

a line of CPUs that dramatically outperformed their predecessors at much lower clocks,

that the megahertz war ended because Intel needed to shift their marketing away from frequency.

So here's what we have today.

Other than the very bare -bones Pentium skews, a core i3 will be your most basic option with two processing cores and hyper threading.

More about this feature here for better multitasking.

It will have a smaller cache, it'll consume less power, it'll generally perform worse than a Core i5, but it'll cost less.

Which leads us to the Core i5.

I wish I could say it was as simple as, well, Core i3s have two cores and Core i5s have four cores.

The number of cores equals n minus one where n is the number after the little i.

But it's not.

Mobile Core i5s have two cores and hyper threading, while desktop ones, mostly, have four cores and no hyper -threading.

But what they all have in common is improved onboard graphics and turbo boost, more about this feature here,

for temporary performance enhancements when your system needs a little bit more oomph.

And with oomph in mind, Core i7s.

Number one, all

Core i7s have hyper -threading for heavy workloads, and number two, that's the noise your brain is gonna make as I finish my explanation here.

A Core i7 can have anywhere from two processing cores in an Ultrabook all the way up to eight in a workstation.

It might support anywhere from two sticks of memory all the way to eight,

and it can have a TDP anywhere from around 10 watts all the way to 130 watts.

So there is a ton of variety here, and that's for a reason.

Core i7s tend to have more cache, faster turbo boost, and better onboard graphics than the lower tier processors, and I guess other than that,

the best summary I can give is this.

A Core i7 represents the best thing

Intel could build for a given use case, with the biggest drawback being the higher price tag.

So, when you boil it down, that's all the I -whatever numbers represent.

Good, better, best within a given segment.

Beyond that on their own, they're pretty much meaningless.

The numbers and letters afterwards sort of mean something if you use the guide from before.

But the safest way to shop is to dig around in ARC and look at the features, core counts,

and clock speeds of the CPUs You're comparing to figure out how they stack up with the good news being

that as long as you compare within one brand and within the same product

Generation those metrics will actually mean something

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and cooling products thank you i don't know who to be mad at at this point

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “What is a Core i3, Core i5, or Core i7 as Fast As Possible”. Las palabras que más se repiten: core, product, Intel, threading, hyper. Este vídeo tiene 47 frases y 868 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:31. El hablante habla rápido, unas 193 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. Solo el 76 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
clock sustantivo	/klɑk/	cuentakilómetros
thread sustantivo	/ˈθɹɛd/	hilo, bouclé (buclé)
processor sustantivo	/ˈpɹɑˌsɛsɚ/	procesador
compare verbo	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	comparar, parangonar
rat sustantivo	/ɹæt/	rata
boost verbo	/buːst/	aupar, upar
sponsor sustantivo	/ˈspɒn.səː/	patrocinador, patrocinadora
heck	/hɛk/	caray
watt sustantivo	/wɑt/	vatio, watt
confuse verbo	/kənˈfjuːz/	confundir, barahustar
cache sustantivo	/kæʃ/	memoria caché, caché
temporary adjetivo	/ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/	temporario, temporáneo
bone sustantivo	/boʊn/	hueso
explanation sustantivo	/ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/	explicación
label sustantivo	/ˈleɪ.bəl/	etiqueta, rótulo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
figure out verbo	averiguar, captar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 13 contracciones y formas reducidas, como they're, don't, it'll. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/, therein /ˈðɛəɹˈɪn/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: cache /kæʃ/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, workstation /ˈwɝkˌsteɪʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: temporary /ˈtɛmp(əˌɹ)ɛɹi/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, indication /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/, accordingly /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: sponsor /ˈspɒn.səː/, stack /stæk/, skew /skju/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, afterwards /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/, buzz /bʌz/, enthusiast /ɪnˈθuːziˌæst/
/dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, suggestion /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, digit /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como clock, thread, processor.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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