Testseek.com have collected 249 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition 3GHz Socket 2011-3 and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition 3GHz Socket 2011-3.
September 2014
(90%)
249 Reviews
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Most powerful consumer CPU available, as of late summer 2014, Massive performance with highly threaded workloads, Our review chip overclocked well
Pricey, as ever with Extreme Edition chips, Lower stock clock speed than previous-generation Extreme Edition chip, Not compatible with previous-gen Socket 2011 motherboards or DDR3 RAM, Lesser chips with higher clock speeds perform better on tasks that ar
With a bump up to eight cores (and 16 threads), Intel's top Extreme Edition processor for 2014 is stunningly speedy in multi-threaded workloads, making it a good choice for media-production professionals and well-heeled others for whom raw CPU power is k...
Abstract: With the Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E is an eight-core processor with Hyper Threading to yield sixteen logical threads, we're seeing how well this extreme Haswell processor really scales with modern open-source workloads as we benchmark the i7-5960X unde...
Abstract: With the X99 burned-up motherboard problem of last week appearing to be behind us with no further issues when using a completely different X99 motherboard, here's the first extensive look at the Core i7 5960X Haswell-E processor running on Ubuntu Linux.At...
You would be extremely hard pressed to say that you don't want this CPU. You could say that it's too expensive for you, you could say that it's just too expensive for what it is. You can say a lot of things, but saying you don't want this setup doesn't r...
Abstract: These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this 2D performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll ha...
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Published: 2018-05-06, Author: Peter , review by: eteknix.com
For the desktop PC gamer, the higher TDP X models are still the go-to for gaming and general performance though. They're a little faster, and a little more expensive, but you get what you pay for. However, if heat and power are a big concern to you, and t...
Published: 2018-05-06, Author: Peter , review by: eteknix.com
I can see the Ryzen 5 2600 and the 2600X fast becoming the most popular chips of the second generation Ryzen launch. They're fast, they're affordable, and they're easy to keep cool and overclock. I mean, if you're just doing a massive amount of rendering...
Which processor now offers the most bang of your buck varies per price segment. If you have a very small budget, in our opinion it is best to find an Intel Pentium G4560, which, given its higher availability, is less of a challenge than it was a few month...
Which processor now offers the most bang of your buck varies per price segment. If you have a very small budget, in our opinion it is best to find an Intel Pentium G4560, which, given its higher availability, is less of a challenge than it was a few month...
DefaultFirst of all we're going to have a closer look at performance differences with standard clock speeds From our overall performance rating we see that the Core i76900K is on average 796 % quicker than the Core i75960X If we start searching for the be...
