Man this CPU is only for the Hardcore of the Hardcore, The Tryhards of all Tryhards! What am I talking about, Intel’s i7 Extreme 10 core CPU.
PC World reports that the new Broadwell-E gaming chips—or Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition, to give it its full name—usually runs at 3GHz but has a boost mode that ups the speed to 3.5GHz. Elsewhere, this little slab of silicon provides 25MB of onboard cache and Intel’s Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, which means you could probably overclock it to 3.8GHz.
Broadwell-E’s key improvements over its predecessor, 2014’s Haswell-E 22nm gaming chips, include:
- A jump from 20MB to 25MB of cache
- An increase from 4-channel DDR 2133 memory to DDR 2400
- Several overclocking-specific features
- Thunderbolt 3.0
- The new Turbo Boost Max 3.0
Intel claims that the chip will render 4K video and games 25 percent faster than the previous top-line i7-5960X chip, and render 3D content 35 percent faster. Set at a price of $1,700. There are cheaper variants—8 cores will cost you $1,000, 6 cores $600—but they don’t offer the raw power of the 10-core CPU.
