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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: 2014-08-29, review by: Bit-Tech.net

  • As a prelude to our follow-up reviews for the other CPUs,which we're testing as we speak, we can say that they will certainly be better bets than the Core i7-5960X if you're main use for the system will be general tasks such as gaming, web browsing and li...

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  Published: 2018-05-03, Author: garfi3ld , review by: lanoc.org

  • Abstract:  Its hard to believe considering we just finished up an Intel launch, but it is already time to check out Intel’s next launch. Kaby Lake was launched at the beginning of this year and the Mainstream lineup of CPUs is getting refreshed with Coffee Lake and Z370. This is the 8th generation of Intel’s Core processors going back to the original launch back in 2006...

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  Published: 2018-01-02, Author: garfi3ld , review by: lanoc.org

  • Abstract:  Its hard to believe considering we just finished up an Intel launch, but it is already time to check out Intel’s next launch. Kaby Lake was launched at the beginning of this year and the Mainstream lineup of CPUs is getting refreshed with Coffee Lake and Z370. This is the 8th generation of Intel’s Core processors going back to the original launch back in 2006...

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  Published: 2017-10-05, Author: garfi3ld , review by: lanoc.org

  • So I think most people will admit that AMD has had a lot of wins this year with all of the Ryzen launches. As I found out in our 1700v7700K coverage the 7700K was still a great performing CPU, especially when looking at gaming performance. But with ju...

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  Published: 2017-07-27, Author: garfi3ld , review by: lanoc.org

  • Abstract:  Its hard to believe considering we just finished up an Intel launch, but it is already time to check out Intel’s next launch. Kaby Lake was launched at the beginning of this year and the Mainstream lineup of CPUs is getting refreshed with Coffee Lake and Z370. This is the 8th generation of Intel’s Core processors going back to the original launch back in 2006...

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  Published: 2017-04-11, Author: garfi3ld , review by: lanoc.org

  • Well, the Ryzen 7 launch has a surprising amount of excitement and drama mixed together with the impressive numbers but with memory issues and game performance causing very polarized opinions on social media and on websites like Reddit. AMD fans even...

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  Published: 2016-06-15, review by: hardocp.com

  • Abstract:  I am going to do a bit of cut and paste here from our first article...again, as I think the introduction needs to be made again.For the last year, the Video Card Forums have been abuzz with

 
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  Published: 2016-06-15, review by: hardocp.com

  • Abstract:  I am going to do a bit of cut and paste here from our first article...again, as I think the introduction needs to be made again.For the last year, the Video Card Forums have been abuzz with

 
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  Published: 2016-05-27, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com

  • Abstract:  Though there are still some hotly anticipated titles due in 2016, we might already have the game of the year on our hands. Overwatch has been on our radar for a while now but it recently blew up in a big way with an open beta that attracted over 9 million...

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  Published: 2015-06-26, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com

  • Abstract:  Although I didn't spend much time playing Batman: Arkham Origins, I remember the game rather well after testing it on no less than 30 graphics cards and 20 CPUs. Arkham Origins appeared to take full advantage of Unreal Engine 3, it ran smoothly on afforda...

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