today we are going to be unboxing the
fastest desktop processor on the planet
this is the Intel Core i7
990x yes this is the very same one that
an extreme overclocker recently took well no it's not the very same one this
is a retail sealed box but it's the same CPU model that an overclocker famous One
recently took to over 7 gigahertz using
extreme cooling methods so this is Intel's fastest clocked 6 core 2 date it
is fully unlocked for all the overclocking you could possibly want to
do and I am breaking the seal on it so that I can open it up and show you guys
the 990x in all of its Glory so the 990x
actually doesn't change a whole lot over the older 980x it comes in at the same
price point so that is about $11,000 distribution cost so it means you'll see
it marked up however much from your local retail or your uh or your local
retailer in whatever country you happen to be in okay it includes some thermal
paste which we'll get to later uh the clock speeds of this processor at stock
is 3.46 GHz now remember that that also
support it supports every technology Intel can possibly throw out a CPU so
you got 12 Megs of cache hyperthreading so that means you've got 12 threaded
performance okay you've also got support for turbo boost
and obviously virtualization let me see
it does does not have Onboard video because this is an lga8 1366 socket CPU
so that means you do have support for triple Channel memory and it is going to
run on the x58 express chipset graphics card is
required yeah see I mentioned that no Graphics I'm surprised they actually have that on the box you're buying
extreme Edition processor no graphics card very random three-year warranty as
with all Intel CPUs and I think that's about all that I wanted to cover on the
box so let's see what we got inside
here we have some thermal paste okay which you can cut and then apply it's
probably pretty good stuff from Dow Corning oo thermally conductive compound
great okay next we have a core i7 processor extreme Edition installation
instructions threeyear limited warranty and Intel Inside logo label which is
right there very nice you fix one of those to the outside of your PC and
everyone knows you have an extreme Edition processor
inside all right let's have a look at the stock heat sink that is included it
looks like the stock heat sink hasn't changed since the 980x so it is a tower
heat sink although the way Intel has designed it is they've put a finger
guard on it which is good and then they have also designed it you see right here
how these blades actually go a lot lower than the fins than the cooling fins that
is so that and you can also see the shape of the blades is not necessarily
to blow air just that way but also to blow air kind of out the reason for that
is down here at the bottom the fan is actually going to generate a lot of
turbulence a lot of sort of random air flow around the CPU socket that ensures
that even if your CPU or even if your motherboard uses like uh heat pipe
design to carry all of the heat from the chipsets up to the pwm the power
delivery you're going to get enough incidental air flow to cool everything
from this heat sink without using a downward blowing design so it has four
heat pipes uses a plastic very very rigid back plate does not have
pre-applied Thal compound so that is why they do include that thermal compound
and it has a rather ingenious mounting system so you can actually you're using
screws so you're using a bolt through mounting system you can access these
ones through here camera man through here and then the ones at the back you
can see they're covered you can see they're actually covered by the heat sink so that's okay because you can use
this hole in a long screwdriver in order to screw those in okay so up at the top
you got an Intel logo you got a quiet mode as well as a performance mode for
the fan on here this is by the look of things a 92 mm fan although it could be
could be 100 Mil how big is this 110
it's a 110 mil fan okay correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's what that
part number means so uh either way it is a high performance fan it actually spins
up quite loud if you Max it out I have used it in the past but uh if you put it
in quiet mode you shouldn't really run into too many problems with that uh here
we'll go ahead and I guess we'll throw this how do I get the CPU out I haven't
actually seen this uh this retail box
before don't think can I pull it out
this way nope can I pull this out first
and then get it aha there we go okay so there it is the 990x the
th000 plus CPU the fastest performing
desktop CPU on the planet it is as I
mentioned before an LGA 1366 processor
with 12 Megs of cache 3.4 GHz stock
speed and it is 100% overclocking friendly basically if
you buy one of these and you don't overclock it then I will personally
write you a very angry letter there's the bottom so there's
1,336 pads that'll make contact with your motherboard so thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the core i7
990x fastest processor for a desktop and
uh don't worry I won't actually write you an letter if you buy one and don't overclock it