news 28 Posted December 15, 2011 The Core i7-3960X that we reviewed initially is set at a substantial price tag of $990 though it includes the highest base clock speed, the highest Turbo frequency and even the most L3 cache. As the next step down, the Core i7-3930K comes in with an estimated price of $555 and clock speeds only 100 MHz lower than the Extreme Edition CPU while continuing to offer a fully unlocked chip for overclocking goodness. There are still six processing cores, twelve available threads and 12MB of L3 cache to satisfy pretty much any computing need. URL: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i7-3930K-Sandy-Bridge-E-Processor-Review Quote: "The Core i7-3930K runs at about 100 MHz slower than the Core i7-3960X (I say "about" because depending on the core usage count, Turbo Boost may have that at 0 MHz or 200 MHz in a single case) and the program and application performance seen with that frequency gap is about what you would expect: 2.5% in areas where the CPU performance is a straight bottleneck. If the performance of the Core i7-3960X impressed you in our first review, then this should as well. If it didn't, the Core i7-3930K isn't going to change your mind." Thanks for a post!! Ryan Shrout PC Perspective rshrout ( -at -) pcper.com Share this post Link to post
