Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition starts listing for €954

If you look around a bit at price-watch engines you will notice that Haswell-E already is being listed. Polish based Kombo is listing the 8-core flagship model with specs and everything. The processor will be clocked at 3 GHz with turbo ability towards 3.5 GHz. Kombo is listing the processor for €954 which in all honestly is precisely as expected. Intel's uber-high-end processors always have been roughly 1000 EURO/USD.

The processor is going to be listed under SKU code BX80648I75960X and KomBo is listing the following specifications:

Octa-Core: "Haswell-E"
Taktfrequenz: 3.00GHz, Turbo: 3.50GHz
TDP: 140W
Fertigung: 22nm
Interface: DMI, 8GT/s
L2-Cache: 8x 256kB
L3-Cache: 20MB shared
Grafik: N/A
PCIe-Lanes: 40x PCIe 3.0
Sockel: 2011-3, max. 1 CPU
Memory Controller: Quad Channel PC4-17066U (DDR4-2133)
Features: SSE 4.2, AVX, Turbo Boost, Hyper-Threading, VT-x EPT, VT-d, Intel 64, Idle States, EIST, Thermal Monitoring, IPT, AES-NI, XD Bit

KomBo is also showing the box packaging.

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