Testseek.com have collected 35 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 970 3.2GHz Socket 1156 and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 970 3.2GHz Socket 1156.
October 2010
(78%)
35 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
If you cast your minds back a little bit to our 980X review (available here) you'll remember that we found it to be the fastest, most incredible processor on the planet. Admittedly for £850 you'd expect nothing left but the results we obtained from it sma...
Killer Performance, Great Overclocker, 6-Cores, Yay, Compatible With Existing Mobos
Still Very Pricey, 6-Core Resources Wasted With Some Workloads
In this respect, the new Core i7-970's performance profile lines up right where you'd expect it to be. In lightly threaded or single-threaded workloads, it slides in just under the wire behind a quad-core Core i7-975 processor, due to its slightly lower...
Abstract: When Intel released its groundbreaking Core i7-980X "Gulftown" CPU earlier this year, the first consumer processor to feature six cores (and thus operating with 12 threads thanks to Hyper-Threading), it blew us away with its performance—but its price g...
Due to the high price of the i7-980X EE, a cheaper 6-core such as the i7-970 was a highly anticipated processor in the bit-tech office. Unfortunately, despite its non-EE branding, the i7-970 is still a very expensive CPU.Those readers hoping for a 6-core...
In March I called the Core i7 980X the first Extreme Edition CPU that I was excited about. Price aside, you make no tradeoffs with the 980X. You get the absolute best performance in heavily threaded applications and nearly the same in all other workloads...
Good processing performance, Good gaming performance, Stable energy consumption in comparison to the 4core version
High absolute energy consumption, Elitist pricing
A Formula 1 style processor, whose pricing consigns it to the shop window, inaccessible to most users. Most will have to wait for cheaper versions to make the step up, especially as applications that use 6 cores are not as numerous as all that....
We looked at the Core i7 980X back in March this year and surmised that "the 3.33GHz-clocked Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition is, by a long, long way, the fastest desktop CPU ever released. It has wish-list status stamped all over it." Fast forward f...
The 970 is a very powerful processor which faces little competition from AMD right now. Its biggest challenger is actually the 980x which we feel offers more to the extreme high end enthusiast audience. That said, if you don’t plan on overclocking, ge...
Abstract: Véritable cerveau de l’ordinateur, le processeur se doit d’être choisi avec le plus grand soin. En effet, si le nombre de fabricants de processeurs x86 grand public s’est réduit comme une peau de chagrin au fil des ans, la quantité de modèles différent...
