Utterly predictably, the Intel Core i7 3960X CPU becomes the fastest consumer chip on the market, wrestling the title away from the last-generation Core i7 990X. The margin isn't as large as you may ...

Intel's Sandy Bridge-E has landed. We had the chance to test the Core i7-3960X extensively, as well as take a look at Intel's DX79SI motherboard, which packs the hot new X79 chipset. If you need ...

For our next series of tests, we moved on to some more in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to ...

The six-core 3960X is built around the LGA 2011 (a.k.a. Socket R), a new processor socket that's meant to replace the venerable LGA 1366 (Socket B). With 645 more pins, Socket R allows processors to ...

There are some differences between the Sandy Bridge-E 3960X and the new Ivy Bridge 4960X that go beyond the 22nm die shrink. When Intel built the SNB-E, it took an eight-core Xeon and fused off two of ...

When it comes to processors for desktop or laptop computers, AMD and Intel are the only two names you really need to know. Combined, the two companies control well over 99 percent of the personal ...

Here's an overview of the X79 and X58 chipsets. Going over bits we know from the look at the chip architecture, there's double the potential memory bandwidth coming into the second-generation Core i7 ...

To test this board, we are able to run all of our tests at stock speeds using a pre-defined setup of hardware. We will also be overclocking the processor to 4.6GHz to see how the board compares ...