Intel Core i7-980X 32nm LGA-1366 Six Core CPU review

Mar 11 2010, 9:00am CST | by Susan McGlaun

Tweaktown published a Intel Core i7-980X 32nm LGA-1366 Six Core CPU review

Quote from review: "In the current market our CPUs are multi-core. It is almost unheard of to have a CPU with a single core, unless you are buying a netbook or a very low-end system. Starting at the mainstream level the dual core is king. You find them in all shapes and sizes. Moving up, AMD has their tri cores. From there both AMD and Intel have quads and finally Intel has the quad with Hyper Threading; the 8 thread monster called the Core i7. Well, Intel is looking to add a new level at the very top. This is a 6 core, 12 thread behemoth called Gulftown. Once it hits the retail channels it will be the Core i7-980X. But Gulftown is more than just 6 cores on a CPU die. Intel has moved to 32nm and also stuffed in some new instructions (including AES encryption)."

Read the full Intel Core i7-980X 32nm LGA-1366 Six Core CPU review at tweaktown.

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