Testseek.com have collected 249 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition 3GHz Socket 2011-3 and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition 3GHz Socket 2011-3.
September 2014
(90%)
249 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
The Ivy Bridge-E launch (almost exactly one year ago) was disappointing for a number of reasons. Not only did the Core i7-4960X offer little beyond what we were already getting from -3970X, but it had the gall to surface three months after Intel started s...
Published: 2014-08-29, Author: Eric , review by: futurelooks.com
Epic 8 core – 16 thread computing, Improved thermal design works!, Overclockable up to 4.6 GHz (so far), Best of class performance
Premium performance at a premium cost
As usual, multi-core power reigns supreme, at least in CPU intensive tasks. The Intel Core i7-5960X is a content creation tool at heart, but there's nothing wrong with using it to build a monster system for gaming as well. Professional content creators a...
Published: 2014-08-29, Author: Bruno , review by: reviewstudio.net
8 cores, best performance, very low temp, excellent overclocking
price
Intel's Extreme Edition CPUs offer the best desktop performance that now received another 2 cores for a total of 8 along with 16 threads. It is a huge amount of processing power under that hood and it makes a good team with the newly launched X99 chipset ...
8 cores and 16 threads, Unlocked base clock multiplier, Easy and impressive overclocking, Runs cooler than other chips, Brings DDR4 to the consumer level
None that I found
Haswell-E is here and if you are like me you are super excited about it. Not only does it bring in three pretty badass processors, but a new chipset which means a whole slew of new motherboards. Before we get into talking about the X99 chipset let's firs...
Published: 2014-08-29, Author: Dave , review by: pcgamer.com
Abstract: Hot damn this is some quick, expensive silicon. But even though this brand new, $1,000 eight-core, sixteen thread, Core i7 5960X processing monster is capable of some serious number-crunching, it's probably not the CPU you're really looking for.The i7 596...
Most powerful consumer CPU available, as of late summer 2014, Massive performance with highly threaded workloads, Our review chip overclocked well
Pricey, as ever with Extreme Edition chips, Lower stock clock speed than previous-generation Extreme Edition chip, Not compatible with previous-gen Socket 2011 motherboards or DDR3 RAM, Lesser chips with higher clock speeds perform better on tasks that ar
With a bump up to eight cores (and 16 threads), Intel's top Extreme Edition processor for 2014 is stunningly speedy in multi-threaded workloads, making it a good choice for media-production professionals and well-heeled others for whom raw CPU power is k...
Abstract: With the Intel Core i7 5960X Haswell-E is an eight-core processor with Hyper Threading to yield sixteen logical threads, we're seeing how well this extreme Haswell processor really scales with modern open-source workloads as we benchmark the i7-5960X unde...
Abstract: With the X99 burned-up motherboard problem of last week appearing to be behind us with no further issues when using a completely different X99 motherboard, here's the first extensive look at the Core i7 5960X Haswell-E processor running on Ubuntu Linux.At...
Abstract: These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this 2D performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll ha...
