Intel Core i7 990X

Popular Core i7 990X Operating Systems

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   Scientific 6.2
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   ScientificSL 5.7
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   Ubuntu 10.10
   Ubuntu 11.10
   Ubuntu 12.04

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Intel Core i7 990X

overclock3d.net: Today we look at possibly the last hurrah for the LGA1366 socket, the Intel 990X. Did you win the lottery this weekend? This is for you.

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Intel Core i7-990X Extreme

techreport.com: Friggin' Sandy Bridge, the golden child. My Westmere brothers and I are the biggest, baddest PC processors on the planet, and somehow, she still gets all the glory. Everybody is all, "Sandy this, Sandy that," even though she's slower than us. I say: if being second-rate and cheap were the keys to success in the world, everybody would be driving a Kia.

/proc/cpuinfo output for one Intel Core i7 990X core.
processor : 11 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 990 @ 3.47GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 12288 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 12 core id : 10 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 21 initial apicid : 21 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes lahf_lm ida arat dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6951.00 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: