Antsy European Vendors Start Shipping Core i7 990X
Antsy European Vendors Start Shipping Core i7 990X
Posted 02/01/2011 at 10:25am
| by Paul Lilly
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If you look hard enough, you can find a handful of Polish computer shops selling Intel's upcoming Core i7 990X Extreme Edition processor online. Pricing starts at around €900 (US$1,240) and goes up from there.
Intel hasn't yet officially launched this latest Gulftown part, though some OEMs already have it as a configurable option. The Core i7 990X will take its place as Intel's newest flagship part with six cores operating at 3.46GHz (3.6GHz via Turbo Boost). Other specs include 256KB of L2 cache for each core, 12MB of L3 cache, and a 130W TDP.
The 990X also represents the end of the road for Gulftown, which Intel will replace with Sandy Bridge E silicon in the third quarter, Fudzilla says.
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tognetta
February 01, 2011 at 2:43pm
What is the point in buying this processor for U$1200,00 (!!!) if you have the new Sandy Bridge with same performance costing 3 times less?
ddz49
February 01, 2011 at 8:50pm
But with Sandy Bridge, you can overclock the i7-2600K to 5GHz using air cooling. That narrows the margin of Gulftown vs. Sandy Bridge to basically nonexistent, with Sandy Bridge winning most of the applications and Gulftown taking some HEAVILY multithreaded apps with very tiny gains.
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