Intel® Core™ i7-5960X Processor Extreme Edition
20M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz
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Expert reviews
The overall review score is calculated from averaging this product's international review scores.
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11/04/2014
SummaryA Monster ProcessorLet's be clear on this, not many people are going to own this CPU. It's Intel's latest top-of-the-line consumer retail model, it is basically the Ferrari of CPUs; many will covet, but few will own it. Having said that, let's get this re...
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08/29/2014
SummaryIntel’s Haswell-E i7 5960X is a massively powerful processor and a fitting successor to the i7 4960X. It is fast, capable of tearing through multi-threaded workloads and doesn’t consume copious amounts of power. This is the Haswell architecture at its fin...
hardwarecanucks.com
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08/29/2014
SummaryIt's good to finally have Intel refresh the Extreme line up and take that step up to an eight core processor to do it. There are distributed computing crunchers just salivating at the performance potential that comes along with the added four threads that...
overclockersclub.comProsMulti threaded performance, Overclocking with eight cores, Eight cores, Thermal performance
ConsLow base clock speed
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