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November 2011
(83%)
228 Reviews
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Three years later, we are finally able to put the X58/LGA1366 platform to rest, in what's virtually been Intel's flagship platform for the entire duration. Sandy Bridge gave the platform a run for its money earlier this year, but in the remainder the ...
Uber-Expensive, High Power Consumption when Overclocked, No Included Cooler, Another New Socket
Intel Core i7 and Core i7 Extreme Processor Packaging Intel will initially be releasing two Sandy Bridge-E based desktop processors, the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition we featured here and the slightly lower-clocked Core i7-3930K. Both of the processors ar...
Up to 12 threads on six cores, Massive 15MB Intel Smart Cache, Unlocked Multiplier, Turbo Boost 2.0, Improved CPU socket loading mechanism, AES instructions and Disable Security Bit functions, AVX Vector Extensions, 40 lanes of PCI Express 3.0, Robust Software Ecosystem, Intel Enhanced Speedstep Technology, Intel Extreme Memory Profile 1.3 (XMP), Quadchannel DDR3 support,
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Extreme edition processors are aptly named since they are known to deliver unparalleled performance in their segment with an equally unparalleled price. Though the Intel Core i7-3960X may not win the hearts of budget-minded users, the pure bone-crushin...
The new Core i7-3960X does live up to its expectation of being the fastest desktop processor released to date. Costing the same as the previous top-of-the-line desktop CPU, the Core i7-990X, it provides a performance improvement of up to 30%, but you s...
There are two aspects of today's launch that bother me: the lack of Quick Sync and the chipset. The former is easy to understand. Sandy Bridge E is supposed to be a no-compromise, ultra high-end desktop solution. The lack of an on-die GPU with Quick Sync...
The new Core i7-3960X is undoubtedly the world's fastest desktop processor today. Its quad channel memory controller didn't provide much of an advantage but it still outpaced the king of Intel's first Sandy Bridge launch, the Core i7-2600K, by about 1...
We first got our hands on the Sandy Bridge-E processor just a few weeks ago and in that time we were able to examine the chip from all angles. Our findings actually didn't come out too far off from what we were initially expecting. This is to say that ...
The Intel Core i7-3960X 6-core processor is menacing and it's a shame that AMD's Bulldozer 8-core processor couldn't compete at the same in many of the benchmarks!...
Only a month later than AMD's new flagship FX CPU, Intel is back with their latest creation and launches it's brand new high end hexacore CPU for the masses. Not that it had a real competitor with the AMD FX lineup for the performance crown. But it wa...
We have longed for a new series of processors from Intel that would replace the aging X58 chipset and Nehalem combination and the Sandy Bridge-E delivers well on that wish. Even though the architecture is something we are very familiar with- having been...
