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Intel Core i7 5960X “Haswell-E� Processor Revie?= w Featuring The Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5

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Intel Core i7 5960X “Haswell-E†Processor Review Featuring The

Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5

 

The Intel Core i7 5960X, codename Haswell-E, is probably 2014′s

worst kept secret. As I am writing this review the full

specifications, pricing and pictures of just about every X99 board in

existence have already been made public and the NDA is still a few

days off. Product launches like this make me wonder what purpose NDAs

even serve when they appear to not be worth the paper they are written

on. Anyway, politics aside, today we can present your our Intel Core

i7 5960X review – at least pretend to be surprised! Intel's High End

Desktop Platform is about to get its first core upgrade since the

transition from X48 to X58 when Intel made the leap from 4 to 6 cores,

that occurred in 2010. Nearly 4 years later and Intel's HEDT is making

the shift from 6 cores to 8 cores with Haswell-E. What's special about

Haswell-E apart from the increased core count? Well the X99 platform

Haswell-E  brings support for DDR4, SATA Express and M.2 (just like

Z97 offers), up to 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes and of course 8 core CPUs. If

you're in the market for an upgrade this certainly isn't going to be

cheap, new memory, new storage drives, a new CPU, probably a new power

supply…..but I digress. Let's dive straight into the goodness of the

Core i7 5960X. Today we are chucking it on a brand new test system,

powered by Gigabyte's X99 Gaming 5 X99 motherboard and 32GB of

Crucial's fresh-off-the-production line DDR4-2133.

 

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