{"id":12372,"date":"2009-10-21T03:45:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T03:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=12372"},"modified":"2009-10-21T03:49:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T03:49:09","slug":"intel-introduces-core-i7-960-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/intel-introduces-core-i7-960-processor\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Introduces Core i7 960 Processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel silently made its newest addition to the Core i7 desktop processor family official: the <a href=\"http:\/\/ark.intel.com\/Product.aspx?id=37151&amp;processor=i7-960&amp;spec-codes=SLBEU\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/ark.intel.com\/Product.aspx?id=37151&amp;processor=i7-960&amp;spec-codes=SLBEU', 'Core i7 960']);\" target=\"_blank\">Core i7 960<\/a>. This socket LGA-1366 processor is designed to work on motherboards with the Intel X58 Express chipset. After Intel&#8217;s gradual replacement of the Core i7 965 Extreme Edition with the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, there remained a scope for a non-XE Core i7 model with the same clock-speed as the i7 965 XE, albeit with an upwards locked bus frequency multiplier.<\/p>\n<p>The Core i7 960 comes clocked at 3.20 GHz (24.0 x 133 MHz), with a maximum Turbo Boost speed of 3.43 GHz. It has four processing cores, and with the HyperThreading Technology, provides the operating system with eight logical CPUs. It comes with a QuickPath Interconnect speed of 4.8 GT\/s, and supports up to 24 GB of memory with its triple-channel (192-bit wide) DDR3 memory interface. Each processing core has a dedicated L2 cache of 256 KB, while an 8 MB L3 cache is shared between all four cores. It is built on the 45 nm HKMG process, with a TDP of 130W.<\/p>\n<p>The Core i7 960 is touted to displace the Core i7 950 from its existing price-point of around US $562 (in 1000 unit tray quantities). As evidence of that, popular American retailer Newegg.com has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115216\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115216', 'listed']);\" target=\"_blank\">listed<\/a> the OEM part (chip-only) at $589.99, a mere $10 higher than the retail box of the Core i7 950 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115211', 'listed']);\" target=\"_blank\">listed<\/a> on the same store.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/106439\/Intel_Introduces_Core_i7_960_Processor.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/106439\/Intel_Introduces_Core_i7_960_Processor.html', 'techPowerUp!']);\" >techPowerUp!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel silently made its newest addition to the Core i7 desktop processor family official: the Core i7 960. This socket LGA-1366 processor is designed to work on motherboards with the Intel X58 Express chipset&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2498,34,946],"class_list":["post-12372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-core-i7-960","tag-intel","tag-lga-1366"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}