Intel's new Core i7 and Core i7-990x-960 half the price

Intel announced the Core i7-990x, which dethroned as scheduled on the processor that was hitherto the world's most powerful. Waiting to decline the Sandy Bridge architecture on the high end, Intel architecture operates at a frequency Gulftown enhanced to give birth to a new "Extreme Edition", billed $ 999 in turn.

The new "Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition-990x" So culminates at 3.46 GHz, 3.33 GHz cons for the i7-980X. Turbo Boost frequency, used when all cores are not exploited for its capped at 3.6 GHz.

We also found the same technical specifications, starting with a socket LGA1366, 256 KB of second level cache memory for each of its six-core, some 12 MB of cache third level, a memory controller and triple-channel DDR3 a manufacturing process to 32 nm for a TDP of 130 W. Its coefficient is finally released.

Core i7-960 half the price

The price list update revealed yesterday for the time two price drops substantially improving the price / performance ratio of two other Core i7.

Core i7-970, the third founder of Gulftown, carrying six cores clocked at 3.2 GHz and 12 MB cache, loses 34%, from 885 to 583 dollars.

But it is the Core i7-960, which benefits from falling prices of the most interesting. This heart Bloomfield Quad 3.2 GHz and 8 MB cache effectively loses 48% and becomes almost affordable from 562 to 294 dollars.

Core i7-980X meanwhile, however, dethroned by the new Core i7-990x, is charged $ 999 in quantities of thousands.