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Reviews of Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition 3GHz Socket 2011-3

Testseek.co.uk 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.
Award: Editor’s Choice September 2014
September 2014
 
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249 Reviews
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The editors liked

  • Extreme performance
  • Eight cores and 16 threads in one chip
  • Relatively energy efficient
  • Overclocks well
  • Major performance improvements over the previous Extreme Edition
  • Significant overclocking potential
  • Overclocking rewards for both novices and experts
  • Improved feature set through the X99 Chipset
  • Same cooler mounting system as X79
  • Absolutely the fast
  • Staggering performance
  • Solid thermals
  • Swanky new X99 platform – DDR4
  • More storage options
  • No price increase over Ivy Bridge-E
  • Great multi
  • Threading performance
  • Impressively cool
  • Running
  • Hefty eight
  • Core overclocking
  • Amazing multi-core performance
  • X99 platform offers excellent connectivity
  • Surprisingly efficient
  • Fastest consumer processor on the market
  • Eight hyperthreading cores deliver excellent multithreaded performance
  • Strong overclocking potential on all eight cores
  • Uses the latestandgreatest Haswell microarchitecture
  • Support for DDR4 memory
  • Huge multiGP

The editors didn't like

  • The $999 cost
  • Requires completely new platform
  • Platform Price
  • Tips
  • = Overclockers will see a benefit from premium cooling due to relatively high temperatures.
  • Limited overclocking headroom
  • Hefty TDP
  • Super
  • Expensive
  • No real gaming boost
  • Very expensive
  • Not compatible with previous LGA2011 sockets
  • Doesn't work with DDR3 RAM
  • £760 for a CPU
  • Stiff competition from lowerpriced HaswellE chips
  • Needs to be overclocked to maintain competitiveness in singlethreaded workloads.

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  Published: 2018-11-08, Author: Luca , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • 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...

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  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...

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  Published: 2018-03-23, Author: Reinoud , review by: uk.hardware.info

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2018-03-23, Author: Reinoud , review by: uk.hardware.info

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2016-07-13, Author: Marc , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2016-06-15, Author: Marc , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • 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 i76950X is on average 1655 % quicker than the Core i75960XIf we start searching for the be...

 
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  Published: 2015-12-18, Author: Marc , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • 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 i75960X is on average 1609% quicker than the Core i75930K If you keep in mind, that the i7...

 
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  Published: 2015-07-14, review by: uk.hardware.info

  • Abstract:  That the fastest processors are currently made by Intel is not really a secret, but what is the best choice when you want to spend up to £ 50, £100 or £150? To answer that question we conducted a megatest of 57 current AMD and Intel CPUs. From two to...

 
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  Published: 2015-03-27, Author: Hiwa , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • Abstract:  When Intel released their new Haswell-E CPUs, we decided to rework our CPU gaming performance articles. Meanwhile we're testing different resolutions and there are FullHD, 1440p as well as UHD on our list. This way you get a more detailed understanding of...

 
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