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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 Intel Core i7-3930K will be unlocked as expected, clocked at a 3.2GHz base clock with a 3.8GHz Turbo clock, sporting the same 6 cores and 12 threads of its bigger brother, but will carry a neutered 12MB of cache as opposed to the 15MB of the Extremely...
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Published: 2011-11-14, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Obviously, the Core i7-3960X is the new top dog in the desktop CPU performance sweeps, as a look at our value plot will show. Although it's still not a great value, the 3960X provides a solid incremental improvement over the Core i7-990X in our overall p...
Sandy Bridge-E is just plain awesome. The i7-3960X out-performs every other CPU on the market, bar none. AMD has nothing to get close to competing with SNB-E. Bulldozer disappointed many and this just makes it look even worse. They also have nothing on ...
Abstract: for the most high-end model (which we will test today). Before we dive into the article, let me make you aware of the fact that we test with a final sample X79 motherboard from MSI. This article will also review the MSI X79A-GD65 8D. Next to that the ...
Abstract: Today marks the launch date for Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E line of processors, a new family of high-end Core i7 products based on the LGA 2011 platform. This new socket is poised to replace the existing LGA 1366 specification used by the more powerful Neha...
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!...
While we don't want to give the impression that the i7-3930K is a slow CPU for consumer applications and games, it isn't significantly faster than the Core i7-2600K. This is a problem for Intel, as the i7-3930K is almost exactly double the price; LGA20...
As of late 2011, fastest consumer desktop CPU available, Same price as its predecessor, Tons of bandwidth for memory and expansion cards
Expensive, New LGA 2011 socket design requires a new motherboard
For demanding, CPU-intensive tasks such as video editing, the Core i7-3960X offers unprecedented performance, and its significant overclocking headroom will appeal to tweakers who don’t mind its extreme price. ...
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...
Staggering level of performance, More overclocking mechanisms as compared to Sandy Bridge, 48 PCIE lanes as compared to the 24 lanes of a Sandy Bridge system, Did I mention the performance? It's staggering, Quadchannel memory architecture,
Very, very expensive, Requires new X79based motherboard, which is also expensive, Few consumer level applications will take full advantage of its power, No CPU cooler included
Benchmark tests should always be taken with a grain of salt. It's difficult to try and isolate the performance difference a single component in a computer system makes, especially when it's necessary to compare across different manufacturers and platf...
