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Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU Review

Intel is releasing today its most high-end CPU to date, the Core i7-3960X (3.3 GHz), codename “Sandy Bridge-E,” based on the new socket 2011 platform and supporting quad-channel architecture.

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DiRT3

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The LGA2011 Platform
  • 3. Intel Liquid Cooling
  • 4. The Reviewed CPUs
  • 5. How We Tested
  • 6. PCMark 7
  • 7. DivX Encoding
  • 8. Photoshop CS4
  • 9. After Effects CS4
  • 10. Media Espresso 6.5
  • 11. WinZip
  • 12. iTunes
  • 13. Cinebench 11.5
  • 14. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
  • 15. Lost Planet 2
  • 16. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  • 17. DiRT3
  • 18. 3DMark 11 Professional
  • 19. Overclocking
  • 20. Conclusions

DiRT3 is another DirectX 11 game. We measured performance using this game by running a race and then playing it back using FRAPS. We configured the video resolution at 1920×1200 with low settings and both anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering disabled. The results below are in frames per second.

Core i7-3960X

On DiRT3, the Core i7-3960X and Core i7-990X achieved the same performance level. The reviewed CPU was only 5.7% faster than the AMD FX-8150 on this game.

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