Processor | 3 GHz core_i7 |
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Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W Desktop Processor BX80648I75960X
Brand | Intel |
CPU Manufacturer | Intel |
CPU Model | Core i7 |
CPU Speed | 3 GHz |
CPU Socket | LGA 2011 |
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- Go to the next level of multi-core performance
- Intel smart cache
- Intel Quick Path interconnect
- Integrated memory controller
- Intel Hd Boost
- Core I7-5960X PROC FC-LGA12A
- Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
- Supported memory: DDR4-2133
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core count | 8 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
cpu socket | LGA 2011 | LGA 1150 | LGA 1700 | Socket AM4 | LGA 1150 | LGA 2011 |
cpu speed | 3 GHz | 3.8 GHz | — | 4.2 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
cpu family | core i7 | core i3 | core i7 | ryzen 5 | core i3 | core i7 |
L2 cache | 20 MB | 1 MB | 11 MB | 16 MB | 3 MB | 15 MB |
wattage | 140 watts | 54 watts | 125 watts | 65 watts | 54 watts | 140 watts |
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Brand | Intel |
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Item model number | BX80648I75960X |
Item Weight | 4.8 ounces |
Product Dimensions | 4.5 x 4 x 3.2 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 4.5 x 4 x 3.2 inches |
Processor Brand | Intel |
Number of Processors | 8 |
Computer Memory Type | DDR4 SDRAM |
Manufacturer | Intel |
ASIN | B00MMLXIHM |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | June 28, 2017 |
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Best Sellers Rank | #904 in Computer CPU Processors |
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Intel BX80648I75960X Core i7-5960X Haswell 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011 20MB L3 Cache 140W Processor
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Customers like the performance, quality and ease of use of the computer processor. They mention that it runs fast, it launches instantly without any bit of lag and that it is very easy to overclock. That said, opinions are mixed on cooling and value.
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Customers are satisfied with the performance of the computer processor. They mention that it runs fast, is a good chip, and is very impressed by the performance gains when rendering video. They say that it launches instantly without any bit of lag, and it is able to run under heavy computing loads. They are also pleased with the time savings that it provides. Overall, customers are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"...some mild rendering, bench marking and editing and it is insanely fast with the core count and ability to overclock so well...." Read more
"...are using this for the reasons stated above, you will be pleased with the time savings that it will provide you...." Read more
"...CPU seems fine. Admit I don't really know what I'm doing with overclocking as it was the pre-1GHz era when I last did any overclocking......" Read more
"...ProsVery fastWell constructedExcellent heat sink/cover/lid, can apply necessary pressure for good cooling..." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the quality of the computer processor. They mention that it is amazing, impressive, and very loved.
"...using this CPU for almost 3 full months on a daily basis and it is quite impressive...." Read more
"fast shipment , item amazing, Five StarsThank You" Read more
"nice stuff" Read more
"excellent performance, very loved" Read more
Customers find the computer processor easy to use. They mention that it's easy to overclock, runs great, and is painless to use with a quiet operation. Some reviewers also appreciate the computer's ability to overclocked well.
"...Overclock: Very very easy to overclock. the motherboard of choice was able to use auto voltage to maintain a 4.5ghz clock speed with 1.4v...." Read more
"...order a new motherboard to support 2011-v3, although it allows me to overclock very easily...." Read more
"...bundle is painless and quiet. Last time I found the need to OC was when my builds were Celeron 300(s) back in the 1900s." Read more
"...Don't worry about the 3ghz,this processor is easily overclockable to 4.1 to 4.5 ghz." Read more
Customers are mixed about the value of the computer processor. Some mention that it is worth the price, while others say that it runs fast and is pricey.
"...I will talking about performance And when you need it and Is it worth the price And what you get..." Read more
"A truly brutal CPU at a truly brutal price.For the price of this chip I could have build a passable gaming computer!..." Read more
"Expensive, but worth the cost if you are going to use your computer for editing or 3D apps...." Read more
"...for its capabilities i believe the price range is perfectly ok!" Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the cooling of the computer processor. Some mention that the CPU stays cool as a cucumber, while others say that the high temperature is the only issue. They say that it gets hot incredibly fast.
"...Temperature: It gets hot incredibly fast. If I run a stress test, the moment I engage the test, it jumps to 55 at stock speeds with no boost...." Read more
"...But the high temperature is the only issue " I want the heat to be under 70C° Most of the time in load"..." Read more
"...Excellent heat sink/cover/lid, can apply necessary pressure for good coolingRuns cool with good CPU cooler and proper application..." Read more
"...This thing runs hot at stock and that's no BS.*Choose a board that specifically states that it utilizes ALL socket pins on this chip...." Read more
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Temperature: It gets hot incredibly fast. If I run a stress test, the moment I engage the test, it jumps to 55 at stock speeds with no boost. If I overclock, the jump becomes greater as expected. I have been able to run 4.5ghz, at 1.375v with heat being the only issue. The watercooling look consists of a 360mm radiator and a 240mm radiator dedicated to the CPU, with an EK Supremacy EVO waterblock. Liquid Temperatures are at 25c maximum. The waterblock makes great contact in the direct center of the IHS, but only in a small area about the size of pencil eraser. Outside of that area the thermal material seems to thicken very fast making me wonder if the block of the IHS is slightly concave/convex. I will get a piece of glass and test this asap.
Overclock: Very very easy to overclock. the motherboard of choice was able to use auto voltage to maintain a 4.5ghz clock speed with 1.4v. This was too high, so setting the voltage as low as 1.375 had a perfectly stable 4.5ghz overclock. 1.34v maintains a 4.4ghz OC no issue at all. *addition* made it to
Ring Overcock: Seems to not like being overclocked so far. Definitely a downside, as this is the part that will help boost physics scores while benchmarking and testing. *addition* overclocked to 4.1 ghz with the new motherboard. Very easy to do, helps all around. The old motherboard was the issue.
Speed: 8 cores accomplishes a lot of work, and does so with NO lag at all. While stress testing the CPU, dragging windows and continuing to surf the web as well as opening other programs, lag is nowhere to be found.
4 Stars. I am currently holding it at 4 stars, because I want to verify if the water block or the IHS is flat. If it is the IHS, then I will send the CPU back and get a new one sent out. IF it is the water block, I will get the manufacturer to replace it and I will correct my review with an update as to the outcome of the test.
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*EDIT/Addition* I am bumping the review to 5 Stars. The IHS is flat. I have been using this CPU for almost 3 full months on a daily basis and it is quite impressive. Everything is stable overclocked, although I did not get a "Golden" chip that would run 4.5ghz on low 1.3v or anything like that. I have used it for some mild rendering, bench marking and editing and it is insanely fast with the core count and ability to overclock so well. The CPU can Benchmarks at 4.65ghz at 1.4v and run fully stable, but it isn't able to be fully stable for normal operations, rendering and things like. it is at a daily 4.4ghz at 1.37v staying under 60c with a custom water loop and a 480mm radiator with the fans set at low. I have switched from the original configuration above(if you couldn't tell). During heavy loads, the fans only need to go up for approximately 50% to keep everything cool.
Beware, with 8 core and insufficient cooling, this CPU will get to critical temperatures in a matter of seconds. The IHS is soldered to the CPU, so delidding is not a viable option (although some have tried). Using an Air Cooler is not recommended. Using a small AIO cooler like an H55 will allow you to run at stock or very mild overclocks. Running with an AIO 220/240mm radiator will allow more headroom, but this CPU will shine under custom water cooling or better (phase change and higher priced items). If you spend $1000 on a CPU and try to use a HyperEvo 212, you are asking to waste every single penny you spent. If you are spending this much, spend the extra for appropriate cooling measure at a minimum. An AIO will do just fine, as long as you aren't trying to get to the moon on your first overclocking adventure.
What would you use this processor for:
Professional video editing work.
Extreme multitasking
4 way or more SLI configurations
Workstation environments.
What many people use it for:
To boast about their E-peen
To play games at higher settings
What you should not get this processor for:
Mainstream Gaming
Boasting about your E-peen
This processor is not really meant for those just trying to get the gaming edge. If your goal is gaming then you should look at the i7 6700K as that has a higher per core clock speed and you will benefit most from that rather than just more cores. The 6700K also has a logical 8 cores anyway and as such will fulfill your needs for an i7 with great power just fine.
the 5960X is a workstation or multitasking processor with more application in the professional environment where your CPU will be taxed to its limit all day long. The 8 real cores and logical 16 setup is amazing for rendering in programs like sony vegas pro.
I went from an i7 3770K that I bought 5 years ago to this processor as I needed something better for my video rendering for my youtube channel:
Check out SirSlaughter and HyperWizard. You'll know it's me by the recent activity on those pages.
As an example of increase in power, my usual video that averages 15 minutes would take up to 2 and a half hours for the render process to complete on the 3770K at stock speeds of 3.6 Ghz. As I upgraded to the 5960X I managed to reduce rendering time by upwards of 1 hour and 50 minutes. That's nearly 2 hours of rendering time that I don't have to wait for.
As an added plus any game I play from here on out will never be bottle necked by my CPU and now all I have to do is upgrade my GPU.
The next plus will be physics in many games which seem to destroy CPUs.
A few tests and references to previous builds I have done for clients showed a near 90% increase in physics performance over the likes of the 3770K and processors in its class. I have yet to overclock this processor and am unsure if I have won the "silicon lottery" so I can't speak on the overclocking abilities of this processor first hand. However with reports and proof of processors being clocked to upwards of 7 Ghz (most extreme scenarios) leave me with a feeling of confidence that I will be able to overclock this processor fine.
I also did a multitasking test to see if I could torture this processor and make it cry. While I know I made it uncomfortable it was far from crying.
With Sony Vegas rendering a 1080P video, OBS recording and streaming to twitch (twitch.tv/sirslaughter91) AND with multiple windows of chrome up including a page to twitch while I was playing Dark souls 2, I still managed to do all of this and the processor would vary between 60% and 99% usage.
While my game of Dark souls 2 did stutter every few moments it was understandable considering the load I was placing on the PC and my GPU at the time of this review and gameplay was a GTX 770. So if anything my two bottle necks of my system are the GPU and my network speed.
I am extremely happy with this processor and am looking forward to the time it will save me in my more amateur environment of youtube recording and rendering.
For those of you in the more professional sector will want to consider this processor. Unless you are running something like an enterprise grade server and in that case you will want to look at Intels XEON processors as those have support for things like ECC memory and exotic hardware.
For those of you not using this processor for enterprise grade servers, but instead are using this for the reasons stated above, you will be pleased with the time savings that it will provide you.
For anyone curious of the rig my processor was set up in:
CPU: i7 5960X @stock speeds
RAM: 32GB (4X8) 2800 DDR4 G.Skill Trident GOLD
Motherboard: Asrock X99 OC Formula 3.1
GPU: GTX 770 PNY 4GB OC
PSU: EVGA 1000G
OS Storage: SanDisk SD8SN8U-512G-1122 X400 M.2 2280 512GB Internal SSD
OS: Windows 7 Proffesional 64-Bit (I just don't like windows10)
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"Ich besitze diesen Prozessor schon seit Anfang diesen Jahres und muss sagen: Ich bereue nichts!"
Zuerst schreibe ich etwas zu meinen Erwartungen, wozu ich diesen Prozessor nutzen wollte und was er können muss. Danach erwähne ich kurz die Beschaffenheit der Verpackung. Anschließend teile ich meine Taktung des Prozessors sowie die Kühlung mit. Letzteres möchte ich die Unterschiede zum Vorgänger i7 4960x nennen und ganz zum Schluss das Fazit.
Ich hatte mich Anfang diesen Jahres für den Prozessor entschieden, da er sehr übertaktungsfreudig ist und genug Leistung beim Gaming aber vorallem bei Grafik- und Videobearbeitung bietet.
Am 28.01.2016 war es endlich soweit. Mein neues Projekt startete und der neue Prozessor wurde mir am nächsten Tag von einem Postbote übergeben. Die Amazon Verpackung war wie gewohnt perfekt verpackt. Seitens Intel hat sich verpackungstechnisch auch nicht viel getan, aber natürlich war der Prozessor sicher und fest verpackt (Bild 3).
Als ich mein komplettes Setup zusammengebaut hatte, testete ich sogleich das, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes, MONSTER! Standartmäßig liegt die Ratio bei 3000 MHZ, ich habe jedoch gleich zu Beginn folgende Werte standartisiert: BCLK Frequenz 100.0 MHz; Ratio 4500 MHz; CPU Cache Ratio 24x (Bild 2). Gekühlt wir mein Prozessor durch eine Corsair Wasserkühlung (Bild 1). Im Normalzustand liegt die Temperatur bei meiner Taktung zwischen 20 und 25°C. Bei großen Anwendungen variiert es sehr, je nachdem wie starke der Prozessor belastet wird. Der Durchschnittswert liegt aber bei 40-45°C.
Zuvor hatte ich einen i7 4960x. Ebenfalls ein Flagschiff, jedoch war der Grund meines Umstiegs der in die Jahre gekommene LGA2011 Sockel, sowie der beim i7 5960x lockende 20MB Cache.
FAZIT:
Der i7 5960x ist ein Flagschiff schlecht hin, dazu zählen vorallem die 20MB Cache, die 8+8 virtuellen Kerne sowie die Übertaktungsfreudigkeit! Noch heute würde ich Gamern, die auch Grafik- bzw. Videodesign betreiben diesen Prozessor empfehlen. Er ist die perfekte Mischung zwischen Gamingprozessor und Grafik- Videobearbeitungsprozessor. Das hat natürlich auch seinen Preis. Klare Kaufempfehlung!
Reviewed in Germany on October 2, 2016
"Ich besitze diesen Prozessor schon seit Anfang diesen Jahres und muss sagen: Ich bereue nichts!"
Zuerst schreibe ich etwas zu meinen Erwartungen, wozu ich diesen Prozessor nutzen wollte und was er können muss. Danach erwähne ich kurz die Beschaffenheit der Verpackung. Anschließend teile ich meine Taktung des Prozessors sowie die Kühlung mit. Letzteres möchte ich die Unterschiede zum Vorgänger i7 4960x nennen und ganz zum Schluss das Fazit.
Ich hatte mich Anfang diesen Jahres für den Prozessor entschieden, da er sehr übertaktungsfreudig ist und genug Leistung beim Gaming aber vorallem bei Grafik- und Videobearbeitung bietet.
Am 28.01.2016 war es endlich soweit. Mein neues Projekt startete und der neue Prozessor wurde mir am nächsten Tag von einem Postbote übergeben. Die Amazon Verpackung war wie gewohnt perfekt verpackt. Seitens Intel hat sich verpackungstechnisch auch nicht viel getan, aber natürlich war der Prozessor sicher und fest verpackt (Bild 3).
Als ich mein komplettes Setup zusammengebaut hatte, testete ich sogleich das, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes, MONSTER! Standartmäßig liegt die Ratio bei 3000 MHZ, ich habe jedoch gleich zu Beginn folgende Werte standartisiert: BCLK Frequenz 100.0 MHz; Ratio 4500 MHz; CPU Cache Ratio 24x (Bild 2). Gekühlt wir mein Prozessor durch eine Corsair Wasserkühlung (Bild 1). Im Normalzustand liegt die Temperatur bei meiner Taktung zwischen 20 und 25°C. Bei großen Anwendungen variiert es sehr, je nachdem wie starke der Prozessor belastet wird. Der Durchschnittswert liegt aber bei 40-45°C.
Zuvor hatte ich einen i7 4960x. Ebenfalls ein Flagschiff, jedoch war der Grund meines Umstiegs der in die Jahre gekommene LGA2011 Sockel, sowie der beim i7 5960x lockende 20MB Cache.
FAZIT:
Der i7 5960x ist ein Flagschiff schlecht hin, dazu zählen vorallem die 20MB Cache, die 8+8 virtuellen Kerne sowie die Übertaktungsfreudigkeit! Noch heute würde ich Gamern, die auch Grafik- bzw. Videodesign betreiben diesen Prozessor empfehlen. Er ist die perfekte Mischung zwischen Gamingprozessor und Grafik- Videobearbeitungsprozessor. Das hat natürlich auch seinen Preis. Klare Kaufempfehlung!
The price is quite expensive, though the performance you get is definitely worth it.