Intel Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition

In a nutshell, Ryzen 5's main advantage over Intel's Core i5 range is the higher number of cores and threads it offers while sharing the same price bracket. That's not unlike what AMD offers with its Ryzen 7 CPUs, all of which are 8-core/16-thread...

Intel has coined a new marketing term, "megatasking", to describe situations that warrant having 10 cores and 20 threads. Not all software can take advantage of them, so Intel imagines users will do several things at once, such as playing a game,...

The price is a bitter pill to swallow, but for the right type of user, the performance and features are dream...

With its ten cores to feed the 6950X is a mild mannered Dr. Jekyll at stock, but can turn in an instant to Mister Hyde when overclocked. As you can see it will need a lot more than value cooling to tame this savage beast!3.5i7 6950XYour RatingUser...

Last words then, the Core i7 6950X processor with its 10-cores is obviously expensive, not just as a processor, you will need to move to the X99 platform. But I already made that Gulftown remark, I still have such a 6-core system running. Massive core systems seem to last a long time. Likely if you go with something like tested today, it'll last you a good 5 years. We again grant Intel our best hardware award, we just love it...

However, this CPU is essentially two things and will be worth buying if either of these things tick your boxes. For starters, if you regularly use software that can make use of all ten cores and 20 threads then this is the desktop CPU for you. Even an eight-core sits a long way behind. The only other reason to consider it is bragging rights. You'd otherwise be much better off with a six or eight-core model if you want a multi-GPU setup or a 6700K if you'll be using one graphics card. In short, the Core i7-6950X is the new desktop PC performance king, but only in specific scenarios.

If you want Intel's most powerful consumer CPU ever, then the Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition processor fits the bill, but it's not cheap.

Intel Core i7 Extreme Processor - Find It At AmazonThe Core i7-6950X is not the only Broadwell-E based processor Intel has coming down the pipeline. There are four new processors due to arrive soon, including 6, 8, and 10 core options, at wildly...

Initial performance and overclocking results from the Broadwell i7 5775C and i5 5675C processors back in 2015 suggested the Broadwell architecture wouldn't clock as high as Haswell equivalents and this has mostly panned out to be accurate with Intel's...

So it's quick, then. The question is, do you really need all of those extra cores? If it's the very best performance that you want, and damn the cost, the answer has to be yes.Broadwell-E, at least in the form of the ten-core Core i7-6950X I've looked...