Reviewers Liked
- Overclocking
- Power consumption
- GPU performance greatly improved compared to last generation
- Support for DirectX 11
- Driver maturity improved
- 22 nm production process
- Turbo Boost to dynamically adjust graphics clocks
- Completely noiseless
- HDMI Audio bitstreaming supported
- Intel HD4000 iGPU significantly faster than HD3000, can be used in Z68series motherboards
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Limited GPU performance
- No dedicated GPU memory
- Still only 16 PCIE lanes
- Early production stepping doesn't overclock as well as current Sandy Bridge
- Not a huge step up from Sandy Bridge, Average overclocking potential on air
- Offers only minor performance improvements on highest-end last-generation CPU, Graphics still not comparable to what you get with a discrete video card