The new Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor costs $167 per core or $83 per thread.
Today at the Game Developers Conference, Intel previewed platforms featuring the latest Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, codenamed "Gulftown," the first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads.
We've put the shiny new Extreme processor through its paces inside our labs and we're mighty impressed that the Core i7-980X met our high expectations. Of course, at a cost of $1,000 per CPU, anything less than the fastest would have been a disappointment.
Check out a rundown of the latest and greatest from Intel with a walkthrough by Chris Angelini
*www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-gulftown-hexacore-core-i7-extreme,9857.html
The Full Review and Benchmarks
My conclusion : Though ii offers some performance improvements in audio/video transcoding apps and photoshop and some compression tools there is no performance improvements in gaming and The high price does not justify the performance it offers.
Today at the Game Developers Conference, Intel previewed platforms featuring the latest Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, codenamed "Gulftown," the first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads.
We've put the shiny new Extreme processor through its paces inside our labs and we're mighty impressed that the Core i7-980X met our high expectations. Of course, at a cost of $1,000 per CPU, anything less than the fastest would have been a disappointment.
Check out a rundown of the latest and greatest from Intel with a walkthrough by Chris Angelini
*www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-gulftown-hexacore-core-i7-extreme,9857.html
The Full Review and Benchmarks
My conclusion : Though ii offers some performance improvements in audio/video transcoding apps and photoshop and some compression tools there is no performance improvements in gaming and The high price does not justify the performance it offers.
