Intel Core i7-3970X

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#4444635
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*drools*
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so a $100 price premium for an additional 200MHz on the core clock, a 100MHz on the turbo boost and support for an additional 64GB of ram.
The e-peen market is big enough for Intel to find worth in producing this chip.
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The e-peen market is big enough for Intel to find worth in producing this chip.
This is very true.
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I'd rather wait for the new chips to arrive in March. Are these ones even officially supporting PCI-E 3.0 ?
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OUCH 150W!!!!! This is an awesome chip, the logical upgrade from mine, but really not worth it at this stage. I am surprised they haven't released a full 8-core unlocked chip yet though.
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OUCH 150W!!!!! ...
More like OUCH, $1167!!!!! :gape:
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I'd rather wait for the new chips to arrive in March. Are these ones even officially supporting PCI-E 3.0 ?
Same here. Sandy Bridge was good value but not a worthy upgrade for me and Ivy Bridge, I felt, was a huge disappointment due to hot running chips and high power requirements. Then there's the lack of proper PCI-E 3.0 support from NVIDIA. If I'm going to upgrade my CPU then I want more than a quadcore (otherwise what's the point?) and at this moment in time very few games benefit from having more than four cores anyway. It's the reason I have not upgraded this year as I planned to. I'm more than happy to wait to see what next year brings and then I'll move up to a motherboard with USB 3.0 and PCI-E 3.0 support. March/April sounds good to me. 😀
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What an overpriced chip...
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OUCH 150W!!!!! This is an awesome chip, the logical upgrade from mine, but really not worth it at this stage. I am surprised they haven't released a full 8-core unlocked chip yet though.
yeah.. and people bitched when AMD released FX with 125W.. 😀 Imo this i7 3970X is a pointless chip. They should release that IvyBridge-E 8core (16threads) already, instead of milking SandyBridge-E to the end and beyond..:infinity:
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Same here. Sandy Bridge was good value but not a worthy upgrade for me and Ivy Bridge, I felt, was a huge disappointment due to hot running chips and high power requirements. Then there's the lack of proper PCI-E 3.0 support from NVIDIA. If I'm going to upgrade my CPU then I want more than a quadcore (otherwise what's the point?) and at this moment in time very few games benefit from having more than four cores anyway. It's the reason I have not upgraded this year as I planned to. I'm more than happy to wait to see what next year brings and then I'll move up to a motherboard with USB 3.0 and PCI-E 3.0 support. March/April sounds good to me. 😀
With a decent graphics card(s) there is no game outhere that cannot be played with everything turned up high on the X58 platform. Until this changes ie: The games actually require *more* from the cpu and motherboard then i wont be upgrading to Haswell or any other cpu. If its not broke i wont be fixing it as i find it a massive chore nowadays building PC's.
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So long as the TIM is decent quality and the performance still beats anything AMD, it will sell plenty at almost any price. That's kinda how Intel gets away with it.
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More like OUCH, $1167!!!!! :gape:
This sums it up nicely. - It will still sell though. 🤓
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Same here. Sandy Bridge was good value but not a worthy upgrade for me and Ivy Bridge, I felt, was a huge disappointment due to hot running chips and high power requirements. Then there's the lack of proper PCI-E 3.0 support from NVIDIA. If I'm going to upgrade my CPU then I want more than a quadcore (otherwise what's the point?) and at this moment in time very few games benefit from having more than four cores anyway. It's the reason I have not upgraded this year as I planned to. I'm more than happy to wait to see what next year brings and then I'll move up to a motherboard with USB 3.0 and PCI-E 3.0 support. March/April sounds good to me. 😀
+1 I'm still on 920, and these CPUs were just too good to move to Sandy or Ivy bridge except for maybe benching. And I have it for 3.5 years now... One day they'll make a CPU that will be significantly faster and consume less power at the same time, but still, we have to wait 🙂