Intel's New X Series of Enthusiast CPUs, Explained

Did You Know? If it feels like the number of products offered in grocery stores has skyrocketed over the course of your life, you’re not wrong. Between 1975 and 2008, the number of products found in an average supermarket climbed from ~9,000 to ~47,000. Geek Trivia The Nintendo Character Kirby Is Named After A Real Life? Comic Artist → Politician → Dog → Lawyer → Advertisement Download The Essential Job Interview Handbook ($8.50 Value) FREE For a Limited Time The Essential Job Interview Handbook will help job seekers prepare effectively for interviews and become familiar with different types of interview questions and styles of interviews. A unique feature of this book is the multiple answers it provides for each question, rated good, better, and best; with this feature, you'll learn what makes a winning answer and understand the strategy behind it.Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Convert Between Fixed and Dynamic Disks in VirtualBox How to Troubleshoot Android Auto Problems How to Stop Twitter Videos From Autoplaying Intel’s New X Series of Enthusiast CPUs, Explained How to Create an “Abandoned” Shelf in Goodreads for the Books You’ve Quit How to Create Quick Actions for the Abode Home Security System What Is installd, and Why Is It Running on My Mac? How to Add Philips Hue Widgets to Your Android Home Screen How to Freeze and Unfreeze Rows and Columns in Excel What Is Intel’s New Core i9 CPU Series? How to Prioritize Your Preferred Wi-Fi Networks on a Chromebook How to Stop Facebook from Automatically Translating Posts What Is ReFS (the Resilient File System) on Windows? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term XviD XviD is a popular open source video codec based on MPEG-4 that was created to provide a free alternative to commercial video codecs. XviD is able to provide good quality compression while maintaining original image quality. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. The rover that will store rock samples on Mars Nasa's new rover is intended to store rock samples it plucks from the Martian surface. But what happens after that? [BBC] Back to the iPhone future: Lessons from a decade of Apple influence in medicine iPhones spurred big changes in learning and practicing medicine—and there may be more. [ArsTechnica] Extreme heat in California, Arizona, and Nevada has meteorologists running out of colors for their weather maps With temperatures reaching a near-record high of 119°F (48°C) in Arizona earlier this week, meteorologists ran out of colors to indicate extreme temperatures in southwestern regions of the US [Quartz] The Challenge of Fighting Mistrust in Science Emphasizing the way scientific findings play out in people's everyday lives could help. [The Atlantic] How to Convert Between Fixed and Dynamic Disks in VirtualBox VirtualBox allows you to choose either a dynamically allocated or fixed size disk when creating a new virtual hard disk file. Dynamically allocated disks are faster to create and can grow to larger sizes. Fixed size disks may be faster to use, but can’t grow any larger once they fill up. You can convert between the two formats and resize disks, if you like. Read This Article → How to Troubleshoot Android Auto Problems Android Auto is a game changer in the car. Regardless of whether you have a dedicated Auto head unit, your car came Auto-ready, or you’re just using your phone in Auto mode, it’s a killer piece of software. But it can also be frustrating when things don’t work like they should. Here are some suggestions on what you can do if Auto isn’t working. Read This Article → How to Stop Twitter Videos From Autoplaying As you scroll through your Twitter Timeline, by default, videos will start autoplaying. Thankfully, they do so without sound, but it can still be annoying, and if you're on mobile, it can burn through your data cap. Here's how to stop it from happening. Read This Article → Intel’s New X Series of Enthusiast CPUs, Explained In addition to a brand new tier of consumer-grade processors, the Core i9 family, Intel also recently introduced the “X-series.” Here’s where things get confusing, because Core X processors don’t fit into a single line, family, or even chip architecture—it’s purely a marketing term, similar to the previous “Extreme Edition” processors that Intel offered a few years ago. Read This Article → How to Create an “Abandoned” Shelf in Goodreads for the Books You’ve Quit If you’re one of the millions of people who uses Goodreads to track your reading habits you’ve surely noticed one thing: there’s no default way to mark a book that you’ve stopped reading partway through and have it removed from your reading list. With a simple little trick, however, you can create a final resting place for those books you don’t intend to finish. Read This Article → How to Create Quick Actions for the Abode Home Security System Abode’s Quick Actions are a lot like shortcuts, giving you quick access to certain tasks so that you don’t have to navigate through menus to do something. Here’s how to set them up. Read This Article → What Is installd, and Why Is It Running on My Mac? You hear your Mac’s fans running, so you check Activity Monitor. Turns out something called “installd” is taking up a bunch of CPU power. What’s going on? Read This Article → How to Add Philips Hue Widgets to Your Android Home Screen Philips Hue’s Android widgets are a robust way to control several of your lights at the touch of a button. You can turn lights on and off or apply multiple scenes at once. Here’s how to create an Android widget for Philips Hue and what you can do with them. Read This Article → How to Freeze and Unfreeze Rows and Columns in Excel If you are working on a large spreadsheet, it can be useful to “freeze” certain rows or columns so that they stay on screen while you scroll through the rest of the sheet. Read This Article → What Is Intel’s New Core i9 CPU Series? For years, Intel’s flagship Core processor series has had three performance tiers: i3, i5, and the top-of-the-line i7. But after several disappointingly small performance iterations and the looming specter of AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper processor, Intel announced a new king of the CPU hill: the Core i9. Read This Article → How to Prioritize Your Preferred Wi-Fi Networks on a Chromebook Your Chromebook automatically connects to Wi-Fi networks you’ve previously connected to. But, if multiple known Wi-Fi networks are in range, you might want to configure which one gets priority. For example, you can prioritize your home network over your neighbor’s network, which is nearby but faint. Read This Article → How to Stop Facebook from Automatically Translating Posts Facebook is an international social network. There are hundreds of millions of users who don't speak English as their first language. You might end up friends with some of them, whether it's because you meet travelling, or they're distant family, or for any of a million other reasons. To help make life easier for you, Facebook will, by default, translate their posts for you. Read This Article → What Is ReFS (the Resilient File System) on Windows? Microsoft’s new ReFS file system was originally introduced on Windows Server 2012. It’s included on Windows 10, where it can only be used as part of the drive-pooling Storage Spaces feature. ReFS will be improved in Windows Server 2016, and a leak from Microsoft indicates that it will be part of a new edition of Windows 10, named Windows 10 Pro for Advanced PCs. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Essential Job Interview Handbook ($8.50 Value) FREE For a Limited Time The Essential Job Interview Handbook will help job seekers prepare effectively for interviews and become familiar with different types of interview questions and styles of interviews. A unique feature of this book is the multiple answers it provides for each question, rated good, better, and best; with this feature, you'll learn what makes a winning answer and understand the strategy behind it.Click here to download