Intel Core i7-3960X Review
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Published: 14th November 2011 | Source: Intel | Price: £790 |
If you're one of those people who skips straight to the results, then shame on you, and it's worth reiterating, these are STOCK settings in our testing.
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CPU Benchmarks
When looking at your current setup and wondering if an upgrade is necessary it's easy to forget how much technology advances. A perfect example of it is right here with the i7-3960X when compared against its 32nm brother the i7-990X. Or indeed anything else in the graph. This is ridiculously quick in the AIDA testing. So much so that neither the Hexcore power of the i7-990X nor the huge clockspeed of the 5GHz 2600K come anywhere near it.
Memory Benchmarks
From the sublime to the ridiculous. We know that the Triple Channel of the X58, here demonstrated by another Westmere CPU the i7-970, was never quite as fast as we all hoped, and equally that the dual-channel capabilities of the Sandy Bridge was very fast indeed. So theoretically the speed of Sandy Bridge dual-channel doubled with the Quad Channel available to the X79 should have given us incredible bandwidth. Certainly here it doesn't.
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Do you keep all you rig's?
No, I sell the parts off to make up the money for the new ones
So there will soon be launched a SB-E with 8 cores? Theres some news about it on techpowerup. Looks like im gonna wait a bit longer before i purchase my new cpu.
The 8 cores should be monstrous
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The 8 cores should be monstrous
Yeah it might be very nice
I read that the C1 stepping have a few issues that might be fixed in next batch, so il think il wait a bit and see what will happend. Also, the IB-E is launched Q4 2012, and it is compatible with X79 MB.
Correct me if im wrong. the 8 core SB-E is only for servers?
Why no quick sync on the SB-E?
The reason there is no quick sync on SB-E is because they don't have the integrated graphics processor like SB, the IGP is used for quick sync.
I'm not sure about the IB-E news about them being compatible with X79 and the 2011 socket. They probably will be but i'm betting IB-E will have a new chipset when it's released, so even though they might be compatible with the X79 chipset and 2011 socket it will probably just be better to wait for the new chipset for IB-E. It's the same with the desktop Ivy Bridge CPUs as well, they are compatible with P67 and Z68 (gen 3 motherbaoards anyway) but Intel are releasing new motherboards with a new Z77 chipset when Ivy Bridge is released.
The 8 cores are the Xeons, they are mainly for severs and aren't really designed for desktop use they are designed for use in dual configuration on Server motherboards like the SR3. Just looked at the specs as well and these Xeons have a 150w TDP
The reason there is no quick sync on SB-E is because they don't have the integrated graphics processor like SB, the IGP is used for quick sync.
I'm not sure about the IB-E news about them being compatible with X79 and the 2011 socket. They probably will be but i'm betting IB-E will have a new chipset when it's released, so even though they might be compatible with the X79 chipset and 2011 socket it will probably just be better to wait for the new chipset for IB-E. It's the same with the desktop Ivy Bridge CPUs as well, they are compatible with P67 and Z68 (gen 3 motherbaoards anyway) but Intel are releasing new motherboards with a new Z77 chipset when Ivy Bridge is released.
Yeah that was what i thought. I didnt read the article well enough first time, so i thought it came a 8 core desktop cpu. Il grab a 3930k then, but i might wait for second batch.
Yeah that was what i thought. I didnt read the article well enough first time, so i thought it came a 8 core desktop cpu. Il grab a 3930k then, but i might wait for second batch.
No harm in waiting, good things come to those who wait, or so they say, never seems to happen for me
Tom - any chance to do superpi 1M and 16M at 4.8-5.0 GHz tests?
its a couple of seconds faster than sandybridge clock for clock mate from its extra ram bandwidth.
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Do you keep all you rig's?