Review on 💪 Powerful Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W Desktop Processor for Exceptional Performance (BX80648I75960X) by Somsak Saladang ᠌

Name: 💪 Powerful Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W Desktop Processor for Exceptional Performance (BX80648I75960X)
Item: 💪 Powerful Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W Desktop Processor for Exceptional Performance (BX80648I75960X)
Rating: 4

October 22, 2022

Good product at a good price, I recommend to try it.

- That CPU, where the expression: "there is never a lot of memory" is justified, albeit not in a literal sense.
- The cache is large, even very . but also, for work associated with frequent use of RAM and in large volumes, the cache needs to be overclocked, it is also good in default, but it gives a good boost in overclocking! And to overclock it, you will already need a good motherboard and already cooling, most likely there is already a sense in the CBO, but this is not accurate.
- 4.5GHz keeps stable in games, rendering, 3-hour Prime95 run. Not to say that I am a layman or an overclocker with a big name, but to drive 16 threads over the psychological bar, provided that it is 140W of heat in nominal value . well, magicians with a mark of 4.8 or more.
- Insane cache and RAM test results with standard tight overclocking.
Approaching overclocking "if the hands are golden, it doesn't matter where they grow from" you need to understand that there are a lot of blocks under the cover and each has its own voltage . at maximum overclocking, the air "Prolimatech Megahalems Rev. C" was enough for me with the replacement of the standard whistle blower with 2x120mm "Cooler Master XtraFlo" lack of housing and temperature in the prime 92C on the heat spreader. So, you should advise expensive COs for this processor if you are good at overclocking! I do not advise this on personally proven experience, it is better to pay extra in favor of RAM and 4 channels, this makes sense and HUGE!
- Regarding games: I removed multithreading, because the difference is cheap in terms of fps, the frame time does not change at all, which cannot be said about heat dissipation. The cache, oddly enough, did not give a boost in games, but the heat dissipation does not increase very well, so we can safely drop it into default. Better to work with RAM.

Pros

Circled topic after so much time from the release date. If there is no time to read this review, in the YouTube search we drive in: "Proper overclocking of HASWELL-E, using the example of i7 5960X", user "renovatio". There you will find most of the information. Short: 1. Runs great 2.4 channel on DDR4 3. Solder 4. At the time of writing, you can buy at a reasonable price, albeit used.

Cons

“Price is a big concept. Here it is not only the price of the CPU, but also the MB, RAM, cooling, "but this is debatable." It was rightly said here: how can you not cool the boxed CO, BUT not far away people buy a stone for a round sum to cool it with luminum for 300. There are also solid sums for the motherboard and memory, since only the 4th channel provides the capabilities of the stone with the necessary "fuel", in the two-channel the "write" to the memory sags very much, and these are delays directly in the cache with the consequences! - TDP, eats a lot and generates no less heat during acceleration. At around 4.5GHz for the cores and 3.6GHz for the cache (3.0 nominal, who doesn’t know, otherwise there are turbos: why does the RAM in the drain work at 2133MHz, and not like on the 2400MHz bars, maybe not aware of the cache in principle) and active 16 threads, this "miracle of engineering" consumes 200W, or rather 213! This is prime, you can’t load it in games like that . for now, and it will still be less. But the overall picture is emerging.