Reviewers Liked
- Excellent six-core
- 12-thread performance
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Expensive
- No unlocked multiplier
Intel Core i7-970 3.2GHz Socket LGA 1156
The Intel Core i7-970 has a clock speed of 3.2GHz, it features Hyper-Threading, Turbo Boost, a 6.4GB/s QPI, supports 1066MHz DDR3 memory, and has a TDP of 130W.
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Expert reviews and ratings
By DigitalVersus
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A Formula 1 style processor, whose pricing consigns it to the shop window, inaccessible to most users. Most will have to wait for cheaper versions to make the step up, especially as applications that use 6 cores are not as numerous as all...
By TechRadar
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Six cores, 12 threads, one billion transistors and a whole lotta processing power. That's the Intel Core i7 970. It's a fabulous technological achievement. But can it really be worth nearly £700?Admittedly, the Core i7 970 is a bit cheaper than...
By PC Mag
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Costing $114 less than Intel's high-end Core i7-980X Extreme Edition CPU, the Core i7-970 still offers six processing cores and 12 threads for powerful performance with highly threaded applications. You sacrifice a tiny amount of clock speed and an...
By Overclock3D
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If you cast your minds back a little bit to our 980X review (available here) you'll remember that we found it to be the fastest, most incredible processor on the planet. Admittedly for £850 you'd expect nothing left but the results we obtained from it...
By HEXUS.net
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We looked at the Core i7 980X back in March this year and surmised that "the 3.33GHz-clocked Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition is, by a long, long way, the fastest desktop CPU ever released. It has wish-list status stamped all over it." Fast forward...
By Kitguru.net
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The 970 is a very powerful processor which faces little competition from AMD right now. Its biggest challenger is actually the 980x which we feel offers more to the extreme high end enthusiast audience. That said, if you don’t plan on overclocking,...
By Bit-tech.net
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Due to the high price of the , a cheaper 6-core such as the i7-970 was a highly anticipated processor in the office. Unfortunately, despite its non-EE branding, the i7-970 is still a very expensive CPU.Those readers hoping for a 6-core chip at a much...
By Tom's Hardware
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Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside! 86...
By iXBT Labs
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This time we'd like to offer you the summarized test results of as many as 71 processors. This generally marks the end of the year, not the end of another test method's life cycle (like the last time). We believe this summary contains all important...
By iXBT Labs
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Today we shall focus on Intel Core i7 processors, in particular those outperforming Core i7-880. Firstly, we need to retest them with our new test method. Secondly, the new LGA2011 platform is to be announced very soon, and we'll need these test...
By Phoronix
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For a convenient way to see overall how LLVMpipe scales on this six-core Intel Core i7 processor, here's this overview graph below generated by the Phoronix Test Suite that we normally do not include within articles, but it illustrates the per-core...
By Phoronix
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When looking at the Core i7 970 at its stock speeds with turbo boost capabilities, the CPU performed very well and practically winning every benchmark. Granted, the CPUs we used for this comparison were limited to what we had access to, and that...
By Overclock3D
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This product is available for purchase at CCL Computers £693.14 (22-11-10) The search for 5GHZ on air!Back in August OC3D we lucky enough to review the new i7 970, the first of the non extreme branded hex cores from Intel. It became apparent...
By ComputerPowerUser
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