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welcome to my unboxing of the Intel Core i7 3960x lg8 2011 extreme Edition

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desktop processor and what you may or may not have noticed at this point in

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time is that this processor does not include a heat sink so like some

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previous processors in the past although it's never been done by Intel this CPU

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assumes from the get-go that you are going to be using aftermarket

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cooling however Intel does have cooling options available they actually have two

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different cooling options available that you can buy separately and that is an

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air cooling heat sink which you can buy okay there you go it's you're pretty

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this pretty much what used to come included with the extreme editions and

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then you can also buy their water cooler which we used in a previous video and is

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installed in the case right now it's going to be kind of hard for me to drag it out so what do we find inside the

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actual box I I mean I have even less of an excuse for doing an unboxing of a

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processor at this point now that there's only a CPU a sticker and a installation

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instructions and three-year warranty booklet

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inside huh look at that sealed with a sticker there we are

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RTO there so it shows you how to install stuff and tells you about how you have a

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three-year warranty tells you about Intel hyperthreading technology and virtualization technology and this has

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pretty much all of the Intel technology because this is the extreme Edition this

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is the cream of the crop and it is

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expensive so an LGA 2011 CPU is very

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large it has

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2,11 pins on the bottom of it and I'm

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just going to show you guys for scale what it looks like next to a couple of

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other CPUs when I get back with said CPUs from the tech tips room while slick

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takes a very close look at really the

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booklet you got to be kidding me okay oh he says he was looking at the CPU all

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right fine okay so this is an LGA 1155

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CPU this is an LGA 1366 CPU and there

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for scale next to them is your LGA 2011 CPU so basically it is a beast and here

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from AMD is their am3 plus socket so you

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can kind of see how that compares as well so it's by far the biggest desktop

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CPU out there in terms of sheer size which obviously equates to Performance

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well doesn't but in this case it does so this is a 3.3 GHz CPU which is capable

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of turboing up to 3.9 GHz so yes turbo

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uh boost technology is on this particular chip it's a six core CPU with

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hyperthreading which means 12 threads just like the previous generation 990x

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on LGA 1366 in fact I believe this is a 990x there you go this is a 990x so this

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is how much bigger and this is how much better it performs than a 990x this is

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based on sandybridge technology it's called sandybridge

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e and what that means is it's basically

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six of these cores instead of four of these cores with four-way quad Channel

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memory support PCI Express 3.0 support

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up to 16x by and 16x for two-way

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Graphics configurations are 1688 for three-way and 8888 for four-way s or

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Crossfire X configurations and it has 15

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Megs of cache compared to the non-extreme Edition CPU which has only

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12 Megs of cash and is clocked lower I think that pretty much covers everything

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there is to say in this CPU unboxing so if you want the mostest performances and

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the largest CPU on the Block then this is the one to get