The 6950X is a prosumer chip …with a special emphasis on the prefix “pro.” Yes, it’s a really good processor for gaming, but there are CPUs out there that are slightly better for your general gaming ...

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The mainstream PC market is still languishing in quad-core land with processors such as the Core i7-6700K, although the latter does at least feature hyper-threading technology, splitting each core in ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Computex 2016 - Intel has announced its new 10-core 3GHz i7 6950X desktop CPU at its press conference in Taipei, but the chip comes with a staggering price ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Intel has teased its next-gen Core i7-6950X processor on its own website, with the entry for the "Intel Core i7-6950X Processor Extreme Edition" listed on ...

Intel has made a habit of launching enthusiast versions of previous generations processors after it releases it a new architecture. What that means for system builders currently in need of an upgrade, ...

Monstrous. Brawny. Or in the parlance of our times: OP for “overpowered.” All are apt terms for Intel’s new 10-core Core i7-6950X, a muscular CPU so over-the-top in power, that you’d have to be crazy ...

I've double and triple-checked the date - we're well past the day for springtime jocularity, so that can't be used to explain the emergence of a new, unannounced chip on top-end chip on Intel's own ...

It was all the way back in August of 2014 that Intel officially launched its Haswell-E based Core i7 series processors and its companion X99 chipset. At the time of its release, Haswell-E’s top of the ...

PC gamers might not have to wait much longer for an “Extreme Edition” of Intel’s Broadwell CPUs. Over the weekend, Intel’s support site added a listing for an Intel Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition CPU.

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