Testseek.co.uk have collected 175 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition 3.6GHz Socket 2011 and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition 3.6GHz Socket 2011.
April 2015
(78%)
175 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
The Intel Ivy Bridge-E SKUs are a welcomed addition to the Intel X79 platform and socket LGA 2011. The performance improvements weren't massive, but there was a noticeable performance gain in the vast majority of the benchmarks we used. This will likely d...
Daily Computing Performance is actually less than 4770K
The major advantages of the 4th Generation Extreme Core i7 4960X over its predecessor are the increase in Compute power, power consumption and the die shrinkage. With an MSI GTX 780 Lightning, idle power consumption hovered between 80 and 81W. During da...
Well, let's get the obvious part out of the way. This processor is expensive. At roughly a kilobuck each, the slight of wallet aren't going to be considering this platform. However, there is good news too – the i7 4960X is indeed the strongest CPU Intel...
Published: 2013-09-03, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
So, these scatter plots with price and performance kinda put things into perspective, don't they? The 4960X really is the fastest desktop CPU overall, but it ain't exactly blowing my skirt up here compared to the 3970X. You know what would probably look ...
Published: 2013-09-03, Author: Joel , review by: pcmag.com
The fastest consumer processor money can buy for multi-threaded workloads. Asus makes a great motherboard now that Intel has killed its own manufacturing division.
Lacks support for latest Haswell features. Not the fastest chip for single-threaded tasks. Not compatible with Intel-manufactured motherboards
The Intel Core i7-4960X processor updates the CPU architecture to the 22nm-based Ivy Bridge, but makes precious few additional changes....
Fastest consumer CPU available, as of late summer 2013, Same LGA2011 socket as previous-generation chips, Fair overclocking headroom (at least in our sample)
Expensive, like all Extreme Edition CPUs, Modest performance boost at stock speeds versus Core i7-3970X, Won't work in Intel-made LGA2011 motherboards
Intel’s top Extreme Edition CPU for 2013 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 king. ...
Remember if you decide to upgrade the processor on your X79 towards Ivy Bruidge-E then update your BIOS first. Without proper support, your motherboard otherwise would not even boot. From A to Z it testing this processor was a very pleasant to test and t...
Uber Fast, More Power Efficient Than Its Predecessor, Fits In Existing Socket
Not Much Faster Than SBE, Pricey, Haswell Offers Better Single Thread Performance, No Support On Intel X79 motherboards
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition Packaging - Intel Core i7 Processors at AmazonIn the conclusion of our original Ivy Bridge launch article, we said, “Ivy Bridge does not feature a brand-new microarchitecture designed to obliterate the previous generation. Ra...
Published: 2013-09-03, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
Cons
Intel released a new i7 family for the LGA2011 platform, bringing the Ivy Bridge-E into the market. The three new CPUs come with some improvements over the old series.The i7-4960X offers a 9% increase in frequency over the i7-3960X, and gains an average o...
Slight performance bump and better efficiency for the same price. DDR31866 and PCI Express 3.0 support.
Ancient, featureless platform not worthy of extreme/enthusiastlevel CPU. Small jump on features and performance.
Those of you looking out for the overclocking section of this review will have noticed there wasn't one. Admitedly there was a narrow time frame to get this review complete by the launch date, however when we tried to overclock the i7-4960X we had very li...
