What I don't see in i7 3960x

[Vaexstro]

Dear community ,

It's going to sound ridiculous as I already have watched an unboxing of that processor but can I understand what are people paying for $1k?

The cache?The cores?Because it's certainly not the speed and most of us are going to hesitate before overclocking this above 4.7Ghz (although I would think twice for 4.7 as well).

So can anyone explain me what do the benchmarks show that I don't see?

Thanks in advance,

Roy

 

[CDdude55]

They're really good chips for rendering and other heavy workloads and are still the top performing line of Intel chips, it's main advantage is it's 6 cores and twelve threads as well as more PCI-E lanes and memory bandwidth plus larger L3 cache, a CPU is more then just speed.

For most of us the 3960X isn't worth the price, as most of us are simply gamers.

 

[Vaexstro]

Thank you !

 

[twelve25]

Similar answer, but they will give nearly 50% more throughput for high end workloads than a quad i7 without having to resort to dual processor.