Intel Core i7 990X to arrive in Q1 2011

Posted on Tuesday, November 23 2010 @ 21:46 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

FUD Zilla claims Intel plans to reveal a 32nm Westmere-based Core i7 990X in Q1 2011:

We said that the CPU has a 3.46GHz stock clock and the ability to OC all the way to 3.73GHz for some of all six-cores it has. We also told you that this 130W CPU has three channel DDR3 memory support and total of 12MB cache. Let's not forget that people who get this $999+ part will end up with a twelve hyper-treaded, pretend to be real, cores.

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