Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E CPU Review @ HotHardware.com

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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.

 

 

We've got a Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition in house, along with a handful of X79 Express-based motherboards, and have pitted them against an assortment of high-end processors in an array of benchmark scenarios...

 

 

Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E CPU Review

 

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