Today Intel announced that they have created the fastest chip to date for PCs/ It is a six-core i7-3960X Extreme Edition processor, which is based off of the Sandy bridge micro-architecture and designed for high end desktops. This chip has more cores and faster clocks to speed up the pc and we all know gamers love that. The Core i7-3960X runs at a default clock speed at 3.3GHz and you can over clock it to 3.9Ghz per core depending on performance needed. The beast of a chip has a 15MB of cache and four channels of memory. This chip will be priced from all accounts at a modest $990 and will go right up against AMD’s eighcore FX series ship that started shipping just a month ago. Intel also introduced the six-core Core i7-3930K chip, which operates at 3.2GHz and can be clocked up to 3.8GHz. The chip has 12MB of cache, four memory channels, and is priced at $555. So we shall see how powerful this chip will be. I will be looking for benchmarks as the time comes.
