Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition

1,000 Intel processors through the years Not many things are sure in this life, but fortunately there are a number of things you can count on like clockwork. The sun comes up in the morning, we all have to pay taxes and last but not least, the most...

Late May we published a huge round-up of 45 desktop processors , followed by a review of Intel's fourth generation Core processors . Our readers immediately, and understandably, came with the request for a similar group test of laptop processors. It's...

On June 4 Intel is launching its next generation Core processors, also called Haswell. That means it's the perfect opportunity for us to retest all current processors and a number of older ones with a completely new test configuration. It will not only...

Summarizing the Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition’s performance couldn’t be any easier. With the exception of a couple of single- or lightly-threaded tests which favor Intel’s updated Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, the Core i7-3970X took the top spot in...

Even before firing up the Core i7-3970X and its accompanying Intel DX79SR motherboard we knew we were in for some very fast performance. Intel's Extreme Edition CPUs have always sat at the bleeding edge of compute power, and we expect nothing less with...

The Intel Core i7-3970X is no doubt the fastest desktop processor out on the market, but is it a big leap from the i7-3960X? Our testing has shown only a small increase in performance, which is expected with the 200 MHz performance boost that we get...

The oldest processor in today's testbed is Phenom II X4 940, released almost four years ago at $300. Today's flagship CPU costs four times as much, providing only 2.5x (sometimes 3x) more performance. That's progress for you. Let's take a closer look...

The Intel Core i7 3970X is 200 MHz faster (100 MHz in turbo mode) than its similarly-priced predecessor. In the benchmarks the new processor is slightly faster than the 3960X, just like we expected. There wasn't a shocking difference anywhere, but you...

I have to admit that the new Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme Edition processor is somewhat boring. And there are two reasons for that. First, there is nothing principally new about it. All we have is simply a manufacturer-overclocked previous flagship...