AMD or Intel, how two giants of the microprocessors that are presented as eternal rivals can offer processors still no real competition. If processors hexacore is a good example that illustrates this. Indeed it was on one side with Intel processors overpowered rates boring and the other with AMD hexacore performance smaller and much more affordable rates. One would think that Intel Core i7 so have 6 hearts less powerful story to be closer to the AMD but it's actually the opposite happens. Indeed, Intel released Core i7 Extreme 990x in February, launched at the regular price of $ 999. This is simply the most powerful desktop processor from Intel. It is positioned above the 980X, which will probably eventually disappear from the founder's fee schedule. But in reality, compare the six six-core Intel Core AMD is like comparing apples at the moment and pears or Formula 1 for cars. The Intel hexacore perform better and also enjoy the 12 threads with support for Hyper-Threading. Phenom II X6 come more competitive with Intel quad-core. Although some of the giant quad Santa Clara are from time to time in the wind hexacore AMD. In short, waiting for the next generation Phenom with Bulldozer, Intel did a little of what it wants, until further notice. We saw Succession sockets also what we were told it was time that AMD returns to the center stage of history to think more about Intel in its strategic choices.
The Core i7 990x is compatible with socket LGA 1366 there appeared two and a half years. It therefore takes place on motherboards built around the X58 socket remains true to the old chipset with full functionality as opposed to P55, P67 and similar. This high-end platform is however bound to be replaced this year by the platform using the LGA 2011/1351 and due out late 2011. In terms of scalability, the LGA 1366 is therefore somewhere condemned as most Intel socket out from the socket LGA 775. Should we then invest in a Core i7 990x $ 999? The answer to this question in your head is not in 99.9% of cases. We propose however to see what side you get through our test between the high-end Intel processors and other things.
Core i7 990x
Core i7 Extreme 990x is above the hierarchy from the top of Intel's six core totaling 12 threads with support for Hyper-Threading. Format LGA 1366, it took a seat on motherboards based on Intel X58 chipset. Boasting a fine engraving of 32 nanometers, the 990x runs at 133 MHz more than the 980X it replaces. Its multiplier dropped to 26 with turbo modes 28 when one or two cores are used and 27 other cases. Its maximum frequency is in Turbo mode of 3.73 GHz. For the rest, nothing changes compared to the 980X with a 6x32 KB L1 cache for data and 6x32 KB for instructions. The second-level cache is to share 6x256 KB and 12 MB cache for level three.
Test Platform Intel LGA 1366
- Motherboard Intel DX58 SO (Smackover)
- 2x2048 MB Corsair DDR3-1333
- ATI Radeon HD 6870
- Hard Drive Western Digital Raptor 150 GB system disk
- Hard Drive Western Digital Raptor 150 GB disk data
- CD-Rom Samsung
- Seasonic S12 650 watt power supply
- HP 30 inch Screen
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