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.
780100175
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.
Those of you looking out for the overclocking section of the review will have no doubt noticed that there wasn’t one. The reason for this being that we had very limited success overclocking the Core i7-4960X and with a narrow time frame to get the revi...
As we said at the start, the LGA2011 range so far hasn't been the biggest success Intel have ever had. It's too expensive for the amount of performance that the average user will require. However, if you need extraordinary amounts of power for rendering...
The X79 Chipset has been a very capable enthusiasts chipset for awhile now but some features I think should really be available to the high end at this point such as more than two SATA 6G ports. also more Intel chipset USB3.0 ports should also be on the ...
Remember if you decide to upgrade the processor on your X79 towards Ivy Bruidge-E then update your BIOS first. Without proper support, your motherboard otherwise would not even boot. From A to Z it testing this processor was a very pleasant to test and t...
Intel tells us that the Core i7-4960X should be available within the next two weeks with system builders and in the typical retail and e-tail channels. Intel's new line of Ivy Bridge-E parts pretty much falls into line with what we expected when we first...
I remember writing a tepid conclusion to my Sandy Bridge E review almost two years ago. At the time, both the LGA-2011 and LGA-1155 platforms were on the same architecture - Sandy Bridge. My conclusion ultimately boiled down to how much having 6 cores mat...
The Intel Ivy Bridge-E SKUs are a welcomed addition to the Intel X79 platform and socket LGA 2011. The performance improvements weren't massive, but there was a noticeable performance gain in the vast majority of the benchmarks we used. This will likely d...
Daily Computing Performance is actually less than 4770K
The major advantages of the 4th Generation Extreme Core i7 4960X over its predecessor are the increase in Compute power, power consumption and the die shrinkage. With an MSI GTX 780 Lightning, idle power consumption hovered between 80 and 81W. During da...
Well, let's get the obvious part out of the way. This processor is expensive. At roughly a kilobuck each, the slight of wallet aren't going to be considering this platform. However, there is good news too – the i7 4960X is indeed the strongest CPU Intel...
Published: 2013-09-03, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
So, these scatter plots with price and performance kinda put things into perspective, don't they? The 4960X really is the fastest desktop CPU overall, but it ain't exactly blowing my skirt up here compared to the 3970X. You know what would probably look ...