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    Intel Broadwell-E CPUs Officially Discontinued

    Intel Broadwell-E CPUs Officially Discontinued

    With the introduction of Intel‘s Core X-series a few months ago, it is inevitable that the Broadwell-E is put to pasture out early. The Core X-series flagship processors include Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs on the new LGA2066 aka Socket R4. Intel also introduced a new X299 chipset, upgrading from…

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    Microsoft Issues 30 Day Warning for Windows Vista EOL

    In just under a month, Microsoft will finally end one of their turbulent and controversial chapters in their Windows releases. On April 11th, Redmond will finally end support for their Windows Vista operating system. This comes just about a decade after the operating system was released to much criticism and…

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    Intel To Retire Z77, H77, Z75 and Q75 Chipsets In 2015

    Last month Intel made it known that it was to be discontinuing and retiring a whole stack of Ivy Bridge CPUs. The following CPUs are to have their shipments stopped after June 5th 2015, with the last order date being December 24th 2014: the Core i5-3330, i5-3330S, i5-3340, i5-3340S, i5-3470, i5-3475S, i5-3470S,…

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    Microsoft Will Let Windows 7 Die Quicker Than XP

    WindowsITPro report that Microsoft is planning to avoid the same “problems” encountered with Windows XP with Windows 7. Those problems are essentially that Microsoft failed to get its Windows XP user-base to upgrade to a newer OS. Windows XP had been Microsoft’s longest supported OS after Microsoft continually extended the…

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    Intel To Retire Five CPUs In 2014

    CPU World reports that Intel is planning to discontinue five CPUs in 2014. The information was provided with Intel’s latest Product Change Notification (PCN). Of the CPUs that are being axed two are LGA 1155 Core i3 processors and three are socket G2 Core i7 mobile processors. The Core i3…

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    Microsoft To Provide XP Patches Beyond Retirement If Custom Support Is Purchased

    ZDNet reports that Microsoft will provide XP Patches beyond its retirement in April 2014, but only to a narrow group of high-paying business customers. The statement made by a Microsoft spokesperson was as follows: “After April 8, 2014, Windows XP users will no longer receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes,…

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    Nvidia’s GTX 660Ti, GTX 670 And GTX 680 Now EOL

    According to a report by Sweclockers the GTX 680, GTX 670 and GTX 660Ti have now all been given EOL (End Of Life) status by Nvidia. That said stocks of Nvidia’s top three single GPU GTX 600 series graphics cards will gradually start evaporating from the shelves of retailers all…

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    Intel Phasing Out Various Old Desktop CPUs In Q3 2013

    With a new fourth generation of Core series CPUs from Intel, aka Haswell, we have to start saying adios to older CPUs in Intel’s portfolio. Most of the Sandy Bridge portfolio was already given EOL (end-of-life) status in Q1 earlier this year with a single Ivy Bridge CPU given EOL…

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