Posted on Tuesday, February 01 2011 @ 15:50 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
spotted that Intel's Core i7-990X has arrived in Europe, this will be the last Gulftown chip.
A bunch of Polish retailers have apparently jumped the gun and started shipping Intel's flagship Core i7-990X Expensive Edition at prices starting about €900. However, we are still not sure when to expect availability in all markets.
The new processor has already been listed by several OEMs in their high-end rigs, but it was not available to the great unwashed in retail. The Gulfton-based six-core is clocked at 3.46GHz and it clocks to 3.6GHz with Turbo Boost. The TDP stands at 130W and it packs 6x256kB of L2 and 12MB of L3 cache.
