Indeed, Intel's top-end enthusiast line no longer ... we'll leave you with this: a Core i7 5960X rig with both a GTX 780 Ti and a Radeon R9 290X installed, running Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4 ...

Read our full Intel Core i7-5960X review. It’s virtually common knowledge that Intel’s CPUs blow away most of what AMD has to offer. This time, Intel has topped itself again, announcing the ...

It's fairly safe to assume that the new Intel Core i7 5960X EE processor is going to be the item that most people will drool over thanks to its $999 price tag and eight cores. For that reason ...

The big gun is the i7-5960X, Intel’s debut eight-core. As is tradition for Intel’s top-end parts, this chip is priced at $999. All 4th-gen Core processors are built on a 22nm process, utilizing 3D tri ...

Intel's Core i7-5960x has a base frequency of 3GHz and a Turbo Boost up to 3.5GHz when applications need it. But as you'd expect, the processor is fully unlocked and has a ton of headroom for ...

A few days before IDF 2014 in September, Intel launched their first 8-core desktop CPU, the i7 5960X Extreme Edition. The Haswell-E platform marries the Haswell microarchitecture we all know and ...

For the rest of us, the next best option is Intel's fastest consumer processor, the Core i7-5960X. And that's nothing to sniff at either: The 3Ghz, eight-core chip runs $1,050 or so, and you'll ...

Intel claims it's twice as fast as the quad-core i7 6700K when it comes to 3D rendering, and 35 percent faster than the last-gen Core i7-5960X. When it comes to editing 4K video, it's 65 percent ...

From a technical perspective, the Core i7-5960X is the least exciting component of this launch. Though it manages to provide eight cores, which is a first for any Intel processor (previous Extreme ...

In late 2011, I wagered that Intel would follow-up its i7-3960X with an eight-core model within the year. That didn’t happen. Instead, we have had to wait nearly three years since that release to ...

The i7 5960X costs nearly five times its price. I'm still immensely pleased that Intel has upped the game on the core front, but now we needgame engine makers to start paying attention.

So if you bought the i7-5960X when it launched ... but for CPU intensive tasks, Intel's i7-6900K easily beats their 6-core offerings. Just don't try gunning for the 10-core king of the mountain.