Intel i7 5960X Review with ASUS X99 Deluxe

Intel Core i7-5960X Review

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So, with all of the preamble behind us, let’s get down to some hard numbers. The unequivocal benchmarking.

Initially it might appear that the extra couple of cores of the i7-5960X don’t make that much of a difference when compared to the overclocked i7-4960X. Yeah, but that’s at 4.9GHz whereas the i7-5960X at stock is only 3.3GHz, which is 33% less clockspeed for only 25% increase in the number of cores. So that “better but seemingly not by loads” score is actually very impressive. Once you overclock the i7-5960X then the results become so big, so barely fathomable, that we almost have nothing to say. We’re left dumbfounded. And the Memory bandwidth results are even more impressive. 60GB/s memory bandwidth. Whoa momma.

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Intel Core i7-5960X Review with ASUS X99 Deluxe

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