Intel Core i7-3960X Reviews

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Intel Core i7-3960X Reviews:

benchmarkreviews.com: Intel's "Extreme Edition" CPUs have always represented the company's top consumer offerings. Typically priced in the $1,000 range, they have unlocked multipliers, lots of cache, and lots of cores. But until now, Intel's top Extreme Edition offering, the Core i7-990X CPU, was based on the older Gulftown architecture, and the performance gap between this CPU and the newer Sandy Bridge architecture Core i7-2600K and 2700K is pretty damn narrow, especially considering that the latter costs less than a third the price of the former. But now Intel's made a Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, with six physical cores and a staggering 15 megabytes of cache. Benchmark Reviews takes the new Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU around the benchmark course, testing it against the best CPUs Intel and AMD have to offer.

anandtech.com: If you look carefully enough, you may notice that things are changing. It first became apparent shortly after the release of Nehalem. Intel bifurcated the performance desktop space by embracing a two-socket strategy, something we'd never seen from Intel and only once from AMD in the early Athlon 64 days (Socket-940 and Socket-754).

hardocp.com: Intel debuts its $1000+ Extreme Edition 3960X processor parroting how great it is for the gamer and enthusiast. With 6 cores and 12 threads, a new motherboard and chipset platform, and quad channel DDR3, Intel as done the impossible, given us everything we don't want, and nothing we do want.

hardwareheaven.com: Intel Core i7-3960X Processor and X79 Chipset Launch Review featuring: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, ASRock X79 Extreme4, MSI X79A-GD68 8D, ECS X79R-AX and Intel DX79SI Extreme Series Motherboards.

hothardware.com: November 14th, 2011 marks the release of Intel?s Sandy Bridge-E microarchitecture and its companion X79 Express chipset. Sandy Bridge-E is the ?tock? in Intel?s tick-tock release schedule cadence, that bridges the gap between current Sandy Bridge processors and next year?s, totally new Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. The first processor to arrive in the SBE line-up is the Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition, a six-core chip poised to knock Intel?s aging Gulftown-based processors from their position atop the PC food chain, one that they've held for almost two years.

legitreviews.com: The Intel X79 platform for socket LGA2011 processors proved that it is clearly the new enthusiast desktop platform for Intel. The Intel Core i7-3960X processor did a great job of showing just how far ahead Intel is when it comes to processor performance. AMD's new 'Bulldozer' processor series doesn't stand a chance against Intel's new 'Sandy Bridge-E' processors...

neoseeker.com: Over the past year the consumer processor market has been extremely busy with the release of not one, or two, but four new architectures. The first new processors to hit the scene were the Intel second generation core architecture, dubbed Sandy Bridge. This new line of processors was designed to be a replacement for socket LGA-1156, which was Intel's mainstream platform at the time. The advancements in the architecture allowed Sandy Bridge to outperform even Nehalem-based processors clock for clock, thus making the Sandy Bridge platform the best choice in the consumer market.

overclock3d.net: We've been waiting patiently and now LGA2011 is finally here, so we'll take a look at the range topping Core i7-3960X.

techreport.com: The new Extreme version of Sandy Bridge doubles up on nearly all of the resources included in the original quad-core variants. The result? Utter domination of our benchmark suite--and, quite possibly, of your pocketbook.

techspot.com: With the Sandy Bridge processors hitting full stride, the recent release of AMD?s Bulldozer processors was not enough to slow sales. This was largely due to Bulldozer?s inability to compete well enough with the Core i5-2xxx series. Even worse than that, it's next to impossible to actually buy an AMD FX-8150 processor thanks to chip shortages. Meanwhile, Intel is preparing to strike back by bolstering their 2nd generation Core processors even further.

tweaktown.com: It's no secret that the X79 platform was launching today; it's no secret that the top of the line processor for the platform is the i7 3960X Extreme Edition, and it's no secret that the platform supports Quad Channel RAM. Like any launch, there's a lot of things we know about the product prior to the release of it.

vortez.net: Intel's new LGA2011 platform is finally here with a new batch of Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. We compare the new Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme with 4 other popular CPUs.


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This is a post from the OpenBenchmarking.org Blog. Intel Core i7-3960X Reviews was posted in Product Launches on Monday, 14 November 2011.

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