Manufacturer: Price: $ US Author: Steve Date: 11/13/2011

[ Application Performance ]

The Core i7-3960X was extremely fast in our Excel 2011 benchmark, taking just 3.74 seconds to complete the task. This made the Core i7-3960X roughly 20% faster than the Core i7-2600K and 41% faster than the AMD FX-8150. Using our custom WinRAR test we found that the Core i7-3960X took just 92 seconds to compress a 700MB file, while multiple smaller files totaling 400MB’s took 20 seconds. This made the Core i7-3960X slightly faster than the Core i7-2600K and considerably faster than the AMD FX-8150. The Core i7-3960X was again incredibly fast, this time when testing with Adobe Photoshop CS5. The test took just 15.8 seconds making the Core i7-3960X roughly 20% faster than the Core i7-2600K and 26% faster than the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition. The Fritz Chess 13 in-game benchmark can utilize all 12 threads and as a result the Core i7-3960X is unbelievably fast, delivering 19131 kilo nodes per second. This made it 45% faster than the Core i7-2600K and 60% faster than the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition.

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ProX	Posted on: 11/14/2011 09:09 PM $990, yeah okay Intel. Why didn't they at least prove the more affordable version at launch. Anyway thanks for the review.