Recently, Intel company reported its plans with respect to the removal from production of four core processor core I 7-975 Extreme edition, which left the six-core model core i 7 -980X Extreme edition as an individual representative of the LGA 1366 platform in the official company Price- list.
As reports associate during September Intel will present the processor based on new stepping core gulftown Core i7 -990X (3.46 GHz). In turbo- regime it will be able to increase the frequency of the most loaded core to 3.6 GHz. This processor will be able to be overclocked with the use of air cooling to 4.5 GHz. Passage to new stepping also will allow Intel to release faster processor xeon.