welcome to my unboxing of the Intel Core i7 3960x lg8 2011 extreme Edition
desktop processor and what you may or may not have noticed at this point in
time is that this processor does not include a heat sink so like some
previous processors in the past although it's never been done by Intel this CPU
assumes from the get-go that you are going to be using aftermarket
cooling however Intel does have cooling options available they actually have two
different cooling options available that you can buy separately and that is an
air cooling heat sink which you can buy okay there you go it's you're pretty
this pretty much what used to come included with the extreme editions and
then you can also buy their water cooler which we used in a previous video and is
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
actual box I I mean I have even less of an excuse for doing an unboxing of a
processor at this point now that there's only a CPU a sticker and a installation
instructions and three-year warranty booklet
inside huh look at that sealed with a sticker there we are
RTO there so it shows you how to install stuff and tells you about how you have a
three-year warranty tells you about Intel hyperthreading technology and virtualization technology and this has
pretty much all of the Intel technology because this is the extreme Edition this
is the cream of the crop and it is
expensive so an LGA 2011 CPU is very
large it has
2,11 pins on the bottom of it and I'm
just going to show you guys for scale what it looks like next to a couple of
other CPUs when I get back with said CPUs from the tech tips room while slick
takes a very close look at really the
booklet you got to be kidding me okay oh he says he was looking at the CPU all
right fine okay so this is an LGA 1155
CPU this is an LGA 1366 CPU and there
for scale next to them is your LGA 2011 CPU so basically it is a beast and here
from AMD is their am3 plus socket so you
can kind of see how that compares as well so it's by far the biggest desktop
CPU out there in terms of sheer size which obviously equates to Performance
well doesn't but in this case it does so this is a 3.3 GHz CPU which is capable
of turboing up to 3.9 GHz so yes turbo
uh boost technology is on this particular chip it's a six core CPU with
hyperthreading which means 12 threads just like the previous generation 990x
on LGA 1366 in fact I believe this is a 990x there you go this is a 990x so this
is how much bigger and this is how much better it performs than a 990x this is
based on sandybridge technology it's called sandybridge
e and what that means is it's basically
six of these cores instead of four of these cores with four-way quad Channel
memory support PCI Express 3.0 support
up to 16x by and 16x for two-way
Graphics configurations are 1688 for three-way and 8888 for four-way s or
Crossfire X configurations and it has 15
Megs of cache compared to the non-extreme Edition CPU which has only
12 Megs of cash and is clocked lower I think that pretty much covers everything
there is to say in this CPU unboxing so if you want the mostest performances and
the largest CPU on the Block then this is the one to get