[Buzzin92]

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Originally Posted by Fudzilla
Intel has done some basic testing and has included some scores of its soon-to-launch Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition six-core Sandy Bridge E. It's a mouthful, but so is the spec sheet.

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Originally Posted by TweakTown
A breakdown of all the results can be read via the source link below, but to summarize here, the i7 3960X looks to be about 15% quicker on average. Its best improvement was actually seen in 3DMark 11's Physics test where it bested the Core i7 990X by 36%. And throughout the tests there was one particular standout attribute; its memory benchmarks where it left the 990X for dead over and over and scored up to 111% better in some instances.

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Source 2 (tweaktown)

Sorry if repost.

 

[Mhill2029]

36% is a lot

 

[Socks keep you warm]

Wow, hope much will this processor be though? $2000?

 

[eggs2see]

That much power in one man's hands is too much, it can only lead to evil.

 

[Buzzin92]

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Originally Posted by Socks keep you warm;15317204
Wow, hope much will this processor be though? $2000?

I have no Idea, But if they can keep up to what they say then this will be an incredibly performance boost over the X58 platform of which it is meant to be replacing.

 

[Munkypoo7]

Wow, extremely impressive. Hopefully the price won't be proportional :\

 

[IXcrispyXI]

sounds promising

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Originally Posted by Socks keep you warm;15317204
Wow, hope much will this processor be though? $2000?

australian yes i can see this being possible

 

[fluxlite]

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Originally Posted by Munkypoo7;15317215
Wow, extremely impressive. Hopefully the price won't be proportional :\

I seem to remember a price around the $560 mark, which is very cheap compared.

I'll have to find the source of that, though.

 

[TheBlademaster01]

Well it's just up to...

36% is nice though.

 

[Mhill2029]

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Originally Posted by Socks keep you warm;15317204
Wow, hope much will this processor be though? $2000?

Around $999 mate.

 

[Agenesis]

And the 2600k trades blows with the 990x IIRC right? (other than multitask)

 

[Mhill2029]

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Originally Posted by Agenesis;15317252
And the 2600k trades blows with the 990x IIRC right? (other than multitask)

Gaming there almost the same, only in synthetic and multithreaded apps the 990x demolishes the 2600k.

 

[Tiger S.]

I would love some render/composite results. CineBench is a joke. Quick like SB, raw power like the 990x.. the dream workstation.

 

[somebodysb2]

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Originally Posted by eggs2see;15317209
That much power in one man's hands is too much, it can only lead to evil.

Thats exactly why AMD failed BD to keep its customers humble farmers!

 

[Alatar]

I'm more interested in the i7 3930K but sounds nice anyways

 

[Buzzin92]

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Originally Posted by fluxlite;15317227
I seem to remember a price around the $560 mark, which is very cheap compared.

I'll have to find the source of that, though.

This your source? This is for the 3930K though

Source

 

[MoBeeJ]

So far i think this is the dream cpu when using mutigpu cards...

 

[whitingnick]

I wouldn't be surprised if the avg is more like 10-15% increase, where in some instances is up to 36%. So maybe 7-10% faster than the 2600K. But fun number anyway.

 

[Buzzin92]

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Originally Posted by whitingnick;15317429
I wouldn't be surprised if the avg is more like 10-15% increase, where in some instances is up to 36%. So maybe 7-10% faster than the 2600K. But fun number anyway.

It's the memory bandwidth increases I'm looking at... They are huge!

 

[coachmark2]

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Originally Posted by Buzzin92;15317490
It's the memory bandwidth increases I'm looking at... They are huge!

Ill respond to this with something in my sig:
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Originally Posted by G3D
Sandy Bridge and its dual-channel memory controller hauls ass, make no mistake about it.

Hehe.... ain't that the truth? I know that SBE will have quad channel, but still! The memory controller is, I think, the single greatest leap that Intel made between Nehalem and Sandy Bridge.