Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E Review: New flagship, old flagship

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*Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E Review: New flagship, old flagship*

 

http://www.techspot.com/review/708-intel-core-i7-4960X-ivy-bridge-e/

 

Haswell has been out in the wild for 3 months now, while Sandy Bridge-E has

remained IntelÂ’s "ultimate" desktop platform for almost 2 years. However

Intel is now ready for a refresh of its Extreme platform, but they wonÂ’t be

skipping the Ivy Bridge architecture and moving straight to Haswell.

 

Enter the Core i7-4960X which still features 6 cores, 12 threads, 15MB L3

cache, quad-channel DDR3 memory and is supported by the same aging X79

chipset. This doesnÂ’t sound very exciting, so whatÂ’s new?

 

Thank you.

 

Julio Franco

Executive Editor | TECHSPOT

( -at -) juliofranco

 

 

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