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We already reported about overclocking potential of the six-core 32 nm gulftown . The announcement of core i 7 -980X Extreme edition processor also came in multistage - for example, today Intel company demonstrated a system on base of this processor. On sale it will enter, not earlier than the end of March on the recommended price $999.
Here we deal with 32 nm processor with six physical core and 12 mb cache in the third level, which works at the default frequency 3.33 GHz, has a TDP level not more than 130 W and support three-channel DDR 3-1066 memory. The technology hyper-Threading increases the number of virtual processor core to 12 pieces, the function turbo boost allows to automatically increase the frequency of the most loaded core to 3.6 GHz.
The crystal of the six-core processor gulftown due to the use of 32 nm production technology came out sufficiently compact - on 248 sq. mm area were placed 1,17 billion transistors. The bloomfield, Lynnfield and Phenom II X4 processors have larger crystals, in this case. they have only four cores.
The box version Of core i 7 -980X Extreme edition will be completed by a new cooler model, which uses four U- descriptive heat pipes and fan with two-position. A similar cooler allows to overclock the processor to the frequencies of more than 4 GHz after an increase in the default voltage . The advantage of six-core gulftown above Core i 7-975 Extreme edition in the optimized under multi core applications can reach 50%. There is also a weak place - delays at the cache level grew, sometimes this negatively affects the speed. Related Products :
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