Testseek.com have collected 175 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition 3.6GHz Socket 2011 and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition 3.6GHz Socket 2011.
April 2015
(78%)
175 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(97%)
392 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
6 Cores/12 Threads
Overall improved performance
15MB (Smart Cache)
HyperThreading
Improved Compute performance
Unlocked
Low Power Consumption
22nm
Fastest desktop CPU on the market
Incredible overclocking potential
Relatively cool running temps
The fastest consumer processor money can buy for multi-threaded workloads. Asus makes a great motherboard now that Intel has killed its own manufacturing division.
Fastest consumer CPU available
As of late summer 2013
Same LGA2011 socket as previous-generation chips
Fair overclocking headroom (at least in our sample)
Uber Fast
More Power Efficient Than Its Predecessor
Fits In Existing Socket
Slight performance bump and better efficiency for the same price. DDR31866 and PCI Express 3.0 support.
The editors didn't like
Daily Computing Performance is actually less than 4770K
Price
Lacks support for latest Haswell features. Not the fastest chip for single-threaded tasks. Not compatible with Intel-manufactured motherboards
Expensive
Like all Extreme Edition CPUs
Modest performance boost at stock speeds versus Core i7-3970X
Won't work in Intel-made LGA2011 motherboards
Not Much Faster Than SBE
Pricey
Haswell Offers Better Single Thread Performance
No Support On Intel X79 motherboards
Cons
Ancient
Featureless platform not worthy of extreme/enthusiastlevel CPU. Small jump on features and performance.
Published: 2013-09-30, Author: Alex , review by: extremespec.net
Although in high-performance desktop, Intel has no competitors, the company continues to further develop this area. Confirmation of these words is the recent announcement of a new generation of processors Intel Ivy Bridge-E platform for Socket LGA2011. ...
Intel's Core i7-4960X (and Ivy Bridge-E in general) is easy to sum-up, but not for the greatest of reasons. I'd love to be able to write that IV-E is a major improvement over SB-E, but it isn't. I'd like to say that it dominates the Haswell-based Core i...
When I first got my hands on the 3960X back at its launch I was blown away by its performance. Moving on to the 3970X Intel once again kicked things up a notch. Now today with the i7-4960X they have once again upped their game. The 4960X topped the cha...
– Is the Ivy Bridge-E Extreme?Summarizing the Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge Extreme processor is like summarizing the Sandy Bridge Core i7-3960X and Haswell Core i7-4770K in to one thought. While it has a stronger core than Sandy Bridge, the Ivy Brid...
The logic step to move on to the 22nm process, even for the high end Intel CPU gamma, was just a matter of time. The observed performance increase is why we would label this generation as a logic evolution. The most shocking performance step I witness...
Published: 2013-09-04, Author: Gordon , review by: maximumpc.com
Abstract: Ivy Bridge-E review: The release of Intel's Ivy Bridge-E series of chips is about as anti-climactic as you can get. It's a chip that's essentially based on a CPU microarchitecture already going out of style. Haswell , for the most part, has stolen its thu...
Slight performance bump and better efficiency for the same price. DDR31866 and PCI Express 3.0 support.
Ancient, featureless platform not worthy of extreme/enthusiastlevel CPU. Small jump on features and performance.
Those of you looking out for the overclocking section of this review will have noticed there wasn't one. Admitedly there was a narrow time frame to get this review complete by the launch date, however when we tried to overclock the i7-4960X we had very li...
Uber Fast, More Power Efficient Than Its Predecessor, Fits In Existing Socket
Not Much Faster Than SBE, Pricey, Haswell Offers Better Single Thread Performance, No Support On Intel X79 motherboards
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition Packaging - Intel Core i7 Processors at AmazonIn the conclusion of our original Ivy Bridge launch article, we said, “Ivy Bridge does not feature a brand-new microarchitecture designed to obliterate the previous generation. Ra...
Published: 2013-09-03, Author: Joel , review by: pcmag.com
The fastest consumer processor money can buy for multi-threaded workloads. Asus makes a great motherboard now that Intel has killed its own manufacturing division.
Lacks support for latest Haswell features. Not the fastest chip for single-threaded tasks. Not compatible with Intel-manufactured motherboards
The Intel Core i7-4960X processor updates the CPU architecture to the 22nm-based Ivy Bridge, but makes precious few additional changes....
Fastest consumer CPU available, as of late summer 2013, Same LGA2011 socket as previous-generation chips, Fair overclocking headroom (at least in our sample)
Expensive, like all Extreme Edition CPUs, Modest performance boost at stock speeds versus Core i7-3970X, Won't work in Intel-made LGA2011 motherboards
Intel’s top Extreme Edition CPU for 2013 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 king. ...
