Testseek.co.uk have collected 35 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 970 3.2GHz Socket 1156 and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 970 3.2GHz Socket 1156.
October 2010
(78%)
35 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(93%)
148 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
78010035
The editors liked
Monster six-core performance
Plenty of overclocking headroom
Good processing performance
Good gaming performance
Stable energy consumption in comparison to the 4core version
Good processing performance, Good gaming performance, Stable energy consumption in comparison to the 4core version
High absolute energy consumption, Elitist pricing
A Formula 1 style processor, whose pricing consigns it to the shop window, inaccessible to most users. Most will have to wait for cheaper versions to make the step up, especially as applications that use 6 cores are not as numerous as all that....
We looked at the Core i7 980X back in March this year and surmised that "the 3.33GHz-clocked Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition is, by a long, long way, the fastest desktop CPU ever released. It has wish-list status stamped all over it." Fast forward f...
The 970 is a very powerful processor which faces little competition from AMD right now. Its biggest challenger is actually the 980x which we feel offers more to the extreme high end enthusiast audience. That said, if you don’t plan on overclocking, ge...
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Abstract: This time we'd like to offer you the summarized test results of as many as 71 processors. This generally marks the end of the year, not the end of another test method's life cycle (like the last time). We believe this summary contains all important pro...
Abstract: Today we shall focus on Intel Core i7 processors, in particular those outperforming Core i7-880. Firstly, we need to retest them with our new test method. Secondly, the new LGA2011 platform is to be announced very soon, and we'll need these test result...
Abstract: Let's show the basic specs of all Core i7 processors released to date in a series of quick-reference tables. The Core i7 was the first Intel processor to bring an integrated memory controller, feature available on AMD processors since the Athlon 64. In...
Abstract: Recently we have begun to publish a series of reviews with the results of a comprehensive test of modern CPUs we did in our test labs. Right now you can read two articles on that topic: CPU Benchmark, Part 1: Value Processors CPU Benchmark, Part 2: Mai...
Abstract: For a convenient way to see overall how LLVMpipe scales on this six-core Intel Core i7 processor, here's this overview graph below generated by the Phoronix Test Suite that we normally do not include within articles, but it illustrates the per-core sca...
