Intel Core i7-960 3.2GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Desktop Processor

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for what I read this CPU runs cool and quickly. I presently have an old Pentium4 three.2GHz HT. it was fast but now newer applications expected a lot more CPU power, that back in my cpu's days, even net browsing is really hard to do with all that javascript thrown at you. it seams that this type of cpu's are the future, so if you have the cash and prefer to invest it in a CPU that in a major Tv that you could use as a monitor, then get this CPU. it has HT (see other thoughts) Just about every processor ever made was expensive at some point but their price tag with out exception drops. so I will wait to see if one thing really incredible comes out or till this cpu expense a lot significantly less, like 70 bucks. ;) I don't want to loose income once more. HT is not always a very good idea. what it does is to cut your cpu core's power in half, so that a approach only uses half of your processor's energy. like converting several FLACs files to MP3s. I guess that you can convert 8 at the time instead of two, but if you are looking for speed then don't use HT.

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Processor runs smooth. I haven't been profitable at maxing it out yet, but I will delight in the challenge of attempting to do so! Generally and forever, the only con with Intel processors is their price vs. competitors.Processor runs fairly warm with my cooler and Arctic Silver 5 at about 37 per core on idle up to 60 per core at gaming and 70+ per core on burn in. Intel Core i7-960 w/ CORSAIR CAFA70 @ three.2GhzG.Ability PI Series, 6GB Ɠx2GB 3-Channel)ASUS Sabertooth X58 MainboardOCZ ModXStream Pro 700W PSURAIDMAX SMILODON

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decent cost fantastic overall performance free of charge would be superior but this isn't very best Korea.

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I've been dreaming of this rig due to the fact the fall. I was set on a 950, then this went on sale. Got it for the identical price at a nearby components shop and skipped shipping fees. I just built a rig for the wife with an AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb, and this just destroys it!I haven't benchmarked a lot since I just constructed it. Through 3 hours of CRYSIS my temps are 46 C on the CPU and 68 C on the GPU. I thought about Sandy Bridge, but I was hell bent on the ASUS Rampage III Gene and an In Win Dragon Slayer. I ripped a DVD to ISO in like eight minutes. Haven't performed substantially media conversion however, but I will. I like my ZuneHD and my eLocity Android tablet.I went from Pentium four, to Core two Duo and Athlon two, to Phenom II X4. The jump from C2D to Phenom II was massive. I think from Phenom II to i7 is almost as significant. For those haters out there who feel a Phenom II quad can even come close to i7 950 and above, WAKE UP!And by the way, ::sticks tounge out and flips the bird:: to Sandy Bridge. Not a f@#$~!ng factor!! I'm so in like with my rig. Don't hate on me. I've been developing rigs for a though for other people today, and my final gaming rig I constructed for myself was in 2006, and I had a P4 single core three. GHz, two GeForce 6800 GS in SLI Ƙx and 8x) on an Asus 5ND2-SLI Mobo, two Gb of ram, all in a monster of a case. I was rocking Oblivion, WOW, and LOTRO. Do yourself a favor and go with it. It's half the price it was a month ago! Core i7 960 three.two GHzG.Skill Ripjaws Triple Channel 12 Gb Ɠ x 4 Gb) DDR3 1333 MHzASUS Rampage III GeneEVGA GTX 560 Ti SuperclockedEssential RealSSD300 64 Gb / Hitachi Deskstar 1 Tb 7200 RPMIn Win Dragon Slayer M-ATX caseSamsung SH-S223L DVD Burner1000 Watt modular Power SupplyWin 7 Residence Premium 64-bitLG 21.5” 1080p LED Monitor“Plays CRYSIS 1600x900 all settings Highly Higher flawlessly. Going SLI quickly.”

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Heard it is as rapidly as a I7 975 xtreme(hearsay)Super rapidly and Steady.All applications load rapidly.Typical running temp is 38-40cRuns all games smooth and loading in times are swift.Cod WaW. Bf Terrible organization, Price of course.$Runs super hot when overclock 77c and hotter, get oneself better cooling fans or liquid cooling. my specs Win 7 proI use the asus Overclocking tools(provided with mobo) to OC on demand and monitor core temps , fan speeds. intel I7-960asus P6X58D moboeight gb gskill 1600Sli nvidia 250gts640 gb 6gb per sec wd harddive

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My old E6850 core two duo method decided to bite the dust lately and I couldn't wait for sandy bridge to come back so I opted for this method, by no means have I observed a CPU obliterate everything I threw at it like this 1. I have to say I am extremely pleased with this purchase. Stock heat-sink fan is lacking but what do you expect, slap an immediately after industry cooler on this infant and you're excellent to go Asus Sabertooth X58G.Skill 6GB DDR31600 ramGigabyte GTX460 1GB

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Fantastic if you are not an overclocker, you will have the fastest quad core on the block and it will love your rig if you give it the ideal hardware to interact with. It's not far better than a d0 920 overclocked up to 4.2-4.three The chip I got doesn't oc well with the native X24 multiplier. I couldn't get previous 3.6 until I droped down to the 23x multi and was able to barely squeeze out 4.3ghz. Reduce end chips usually OC greater and will be less costly. I have owned three 920's two 950's and now this 960. I'm gonna be swapping this out for a 970. At least if that chip sucks at overclocking it will nevertheless have additional cores.

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One of the greatest procs money can acquire.Overclocks good. Built a technique for a friend 4 months ago and he is really pleased with the overall performance of this chip. Price tag/vs/performance is o.k.I totally agree with the guy who said "get a quad core AMD if you are going to use the chip for gaming and simplistic stuff.No I am not an AMD fan boy I actually personal all Intel items(and 1 AMD).Buddy nevertheless nags me about the price tag he paid for this chip(a month later the 950 went beneath 跌)oh nicely, that is technologies.Stock cooler is decent. Honestly,this is a fantastic chip,but Intel must look at dropping the value for the customers' sake.The i7 950, which is just about, identical is down to under 跌.If you are obtaining Intel go with the 950,otherwise you are paying an added 跌 for miniscule overall performance obtain.

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Out of the box was observed as a three.4G on my p6x58d premium run on 1.2 volt core...stock this cpu matched with the p6x58d motherboard and 6G of corsair ddr3 ram is the way to go.BF2BC2, B2, company of heros, call of juarez. all playing at the similar time. whilst surfing the net and listening to music ;)

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Runs on Fedora 12 (x86_64) with 6GB RAM. Primary use VirtualBox virtualization. It handles Linux virtual OSes really effectively. Linux and open source software program has to catch up with this hardware. Out of the box for a Fedora 12(x86_64) system. Multicore Folding(SMP) does not perform, only single core does, Open Solaris virtual machine is slower that Linux virtual machine. Flash will not operate. All of this (except the Multicore Folding) functions out the box for x86. This has nothing at all to do with the CPU it's as I mentioned in the Cons section. What else do you expect!!! Don't touch Linux unless your ready to play!!!

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Super rapid CPU, simply over clocked. Unlocked multiplied so you can raise the Block Freq greater if you want. a small pricy So far efficiency has been outstanding, it's blazing fast and handles anything i've thrown at it so far. No complications to this point...

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I always go intel out of habit and functionality expectations. This one is no unique fast, cooler than my old dual core. OC to 9.60 and stays at 30C idle 64C running prime 95. Price as usual, what its not free of charge? Its an intel processor.Running Antec 1200 v3, ASUS ROG Rampage III Formula, Intel i7-960 3.two OC to 3.6, Patriot viper two sector 7 12 GB pc3 12800, ASUS GTX 560 TI, OC agility 2 SSD 40 GB, Western Digital 1 TB Black Caviar Cooler Maseter Hyper 212 Plus push/pull configurationCooler Master

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Incredibly Quick, To the Point that it is more than kill even for a gamer. The Heat Sink that came with this is Garbage, Hitting 87C with Prime 95... I would suggest receiving a very good aftermarket heat sink with this beast. If I Could do it yet again, I would have built a Quad Core I5 Method, simply because it is so much over kill, even for an extreme Multi Tasking User like my self.Video Editing appears to be exactly where this issue genuinely shines...

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Pure Evil INSIDE!I love this baby! none

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-Really quick out of the box-Loads my Apps/Games in blazing speed-Hyper threading is often good for assurance-So far, it hasn't disappointed me, and my Computer hasn't lagged as soon as -The price is a bit steep, even so I won't require to upgrade for a excellent while. I could've went for AMD's six core for a lot less costly, even so I have faith that this a is a superior all round CPU.

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Upgraded from a Q6600 Quad and it's thoughts blowing how a lot more quickly it is. None! Good piece of hardware for the price I got it at!

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It's the "flagship"...... Intel is hiding the reality 1156 is more rapidly than 1366. Bypass it. Go for the integrated memory controller integrated with i5.

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Significantly improved my encoding instances in video. It's quick, smooth, and so responsive. As I write this review, I'm encoding a DVD video project in Nero Vision. A job like this applied to take about 45mins to an hour on my preceding OC'd Q9650 at 4.2. On this thing, 10mins! Are you kidding me?? Amazing. Programs open up lightning speedy and the 4-cores with HT are a definite improvement from my Q9650. I feel that I can do a lot far more at the identical time and a complete lot more rapidly. My vantage score jumped from 23k on typical to a whopping 25260. The CPU score on vantage jumped from 55k to 69k. Fairly sweet if I say. Also, Heaven Benchmark two. at Extreme tessellation maxed out jumped from 19fps to 32fps. Max frame rates jumped from 117 to 138fps utilizing this CPU and a single GTX 480! Great! The price tag was a bit steep, but honestly, coming from a guy who owned a 980x for 3days, I don't really feel any regret in returning it for this i7-960! I stepped up from a Q9650, dual chan DDR3 2000MHz.At the moment specs: i7 960, ASUS P6X58D mobo, EVGA GTX 480 SC, Corsair Dominator 1600MHz DDR3 Ɠx2GB), CoolIT Freezone CPU cooler, Western Digital Velociraptor, Samsung 500GB SATA HDD, LG SuperMulti Bluray DVD, X-Fi Fatal1ty Pro, 1100w PSU, Sunbeam Acrylic Case. Twitter: @ocdrumguy

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It is fast and functions properly. none A processor performing what processors do.

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Intel does the job with no hassles at any time. I decided to go with a mid range i7 processor and I am pleased with the experience. I think in all Intel items. Acquire THIS PROCESSOR None. Installation is always a cinch!

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Incredibly rapidly processor and I love it.Operates great and as advertised I have the I7 power! :DIn all honesty though you're greater off to get a lower end I7 with an aftermarket heat sink and crank it up to 3.8ghz.I bought this processor and place it to 3.8ghz flawlessly and I also have an I7 920 at 3.8ghz flawlessly the only distinction is that I paid about 100 dollars extra for this processor.General it's a excellent processor and if you don't overclock this is the way to go. But now that more than clocking is a couple of easy clicks it's worth acquiring the i7 950 with a aftermarket heat sink and crank it previous this.Once more this is the processor to have if you're not going to more than clock it's amazingly fast all I am saying is that you can crank any i7 up to three.8ghz and they all run the exact same and the only difference is the price tag.:D none like it. Excellent processor.

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This CPU is a cool buyer even with overclock, 30C idleናC load at 4.15Ghz (using TEC). 25x multiplier. Low voltage. Runs excellent hence far.Newegg service great as usually. Not as overclockable as 920, but nevertheless a excellent performer. A little pricey, but not also bad. I gave four eggs for lower overclocking performance versus 920.

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Went form a AMD 965 quad three.four to this and wow what a differance , blazeing fast scores 7.9 in 7 ult with 8 coresintel 960asus p6x58d premiumcorsair xmx memory 6 gigwd raptor 150gig ssd subsequent high price fist time i went with the newer tech and the higher cost

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stock fan, replaced thermal paste with Arctic Silver 5, idle is 32 to 35 c had a promo sale soon after I puchased that i missed Asuz sabertooth and Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 6GB Ɠ x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Model 998959worked on first post, xmp for mem, overclock by 7% no change to bench, so left it on turbo with no clock.

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It works. The stock heat sink neither sucks nor blows, which is negative for a heat sick. Temps get up to mid-80s on the cores when at 100%.It's barely any more rapidly than my i7-920. It's what I expected.