Intel i7 970 Review
The New Cooler
Published: 12th August 2010 | Source: Intel | Price: £680 |
The New Cooler
Unlike many of the chips we get from Intel we were lucky enough to receive a retail box for the 970.
The chip itself is very standard and is in the plastic CPU holder we're all used to by now.
Intel are definitely making a move in the right direction with their new tower-based cooler. It's much better than the old reference ones.
As you can see there is a fairly dense fin count and four 8mm heatpipes. It's a nice looking cooler considering. Just a shame the unshrouded fan isn't brilliant. Lots of air gets pushed outwards rather than through the cooler so it always has to run much faster than it otherwise would with a more standard design. It's a start though.
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epic overclock fella
I've been waiting for this to go live so I can give you public congratulations for the overclock dude. What an epic chip.
Epic chip epic price 
I'd love one though
Cheers Tom
I'd love one though
Cheers Tom
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I've been waiting for this to go live so I can give you public congratulations for the overclock dude. What an epic chip. |
That OC on air is just sex. Plain and simple.
At least now the review is done you can turn the aircon back up from -2c and take your thermals off..eh
At least now the review is done you can turn the aircon back up from -2c and take your thermals off..eh
Delicious vanilla ice-cream review, really nice chip from Intel but not such a good marketing move from Intel because why would someone want to buy the 980 now only if they like to donate the extra dough to the Intel Corporation and as I have understood the 980 had rocket sales so why mess that up now (very strange behaviour from Intel marketing department) hopefully Intel will release next year a 6 core chip that most of us common people can buy and can compete on price with AMD's 1090T also I really can't understand why the 980 kicks the ass of the 970 in CRYSIS correct me if I'm wrong because the chips are identical in everything except the multiplier so why the big jump in FPS very very strange behaviour. 
Could the lower fps in crysis be explained by the lower QPI?
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Could the lower fps in crysis be explained by the lower QPI? |
Nice review and way to knock out a killer clock Tom!
Does the gold award mean the best in class award has gone 
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Does the gold award mean the best in class award has gone ? |
However, we do have this up our sleeves....
Is that one going to BFG?? 
Oooooh that's not nice!
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Yeah basically, because we was finding that quite often when we gave an item BIC, another one would come along two weeks later that we wish we'd given it to instead However, we do have this up our sleeves.... |
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Oooooh that's not nice! |
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