There can be no doubting the performance of the i7-3960X. It truly is a monster. Our results have shown it tops the tables in everything you can throw at it from CPU arithmetic to memory bandwidth.
The bad news however is the price of this beast. Estimated to be around the £900 mark it is anything but cheap and no doubt will be out of reach for the majority of enthusiasts.

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The Intel Core i7-3960X 6-core processor is menacing and it's a shame that AMD's Bulldozer 8-core processor couldn't compete at the same in many of the benchmarks!

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Overall, I would have to say that Sandy Bridge continues to impress and delivers excellent performance that just gets better with a bit of tweaking.

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Core i7 3960X processor & MSI X79A-GD65 review

If you leave out pricing then from A to Z it was a brilliant experience testing and tweaking this platform. And that's really what high-end gear is all about.

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Overall, what you have here is the platform with the best multi-threading performance, top-notch single-threaded performance, the most numbers of PCI-E lanes, future-proof PCI-Express 3.0 support, overclocking capabilities that should please even the most ardent enthusiast, and more than reasonable power consumption numbers. Let's be honest here though, the i7-3960X that we tested today might be fantastic, but it is not going to make or break this platform.

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Keeping the High End Alive

The vast majority of desktop users, even enthusiast-class users, will likely have no need for Sandy Bridge E. The Core i7 3960X may be the world's fastest desktop CPU, but it really requires a heavily threaded workload to prove it. What the 3960X doesn't do is make your gaming experience any better or speed up the majority of desktop applications.

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Intel Sandy Bridge-E Debuts

Overall the Core i7-3960X delivered as we expected, the letdown comes from the Intel X79 chipset which offers nothing over the Z68. This is going to be a real problem for LGA2011 motherboards, as we expect them to fetch a price premium over their LGA1155 counterparts, yet most will likely be equipped with the same features. This is going to be the Achilles' heel of Intel’s flagship platform regardless of the added benefits that are found here and there.

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If you're looking for the fastest consumer CPU in the world, the Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition is unquestionably it. But a few caveats may give pause to all but the most rabid enthusiasts.

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The ultimate desktop processor could actually be even more ultimate

Ultimately, the reason why the Core i7-3960X looks like it does comes down as much to the performance of Intel's main competitor, AMD, as it does anything else.
We feared AMD's ongoing inability to challenge at the top of the performance tables would eventually lead to Intel sand bagging. With the Core i7-3960X, it's finally happened. And that's a shame.

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If you absolutely must have the very best, and even if you've just brought a shiny i7-990X, the i7-3960X is still fast enough to warrant a purchase.
It's an absolutely stunning CPU and, despite the premium price, definitely worthy of our Gold Award.

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Sandy Bridge-E And X79 Express

I can't see any reason to recommend paying $990, plus the price of a cooling solution, plus a new motherboard, plus a quad-channel memory kit for Intel’s Core i7-3960X.

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Intel debuts its $1000+ Extreme Edition 3960X processor parroting how great it is for the gamer and enthusiast. With 6 cores and 12 threads, a new motherboard and chipset platform, and quad channel DDR3, Intel as done the impossible, given us everything we don't want, and nothing we do want.

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