Testseek.co.uk have collected 228 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition 3.3Ghz Socket 2011 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition 3.3Ghz Socket 2011.
November 2011
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228 Reviews
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292 Reviews
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Breathtaking Performance
Ultra High Overclocking
Cool Running
High Efficiency
Bragging Rights
Fastest consumer chip in the world
Sandy Bridge architecture's potential extended
The fastest processor you can buy
Hefty overclocking headroom
Colossal memory bandwidth
Huge performance
Performance in applications
Performance in games
HyperThreading
Turbo mode
Inexpensive
Good heatspreader design
Work great with this Asus P9X79 Deluxe motherboard
Stable
Lightning fast around 50 GB/s of memory bandwidth available
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400mhz Quad channel is the ultimate configuration today
The Core i7-3960X and the DX79SI are most certainly a deadly combination for any kind of task that you may throw them at. With 16GB of fast memory and a good GPU, these parts can easily be combined to make the ultimate anything rig. The truth is that t...
Abstract: The PC world is always moving, innovating, and reinventing itself. Every day, every month, and every year we see new products introduced from every aspect of the industry. You will almost never will you see any of those new products cause more than jus...
Abstract: Just recently it seemed that the upcoming launch of the new LGA 2011 platform will be Intel’s response to AMD Bulldozer. But reality proved expectations like that to be wrong: AMD developers failed to produce microarchitecture fir for a high-performanc...
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...
sWhat you saw on the prior pages was an all out slaughtering of every existing desktop chip by the Core i7 3960X. With its four-thread, double cache, double memory bandwidth advantage over standard Sandy Bridge, it offers almost enough performance to j...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
