Best processors : Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition

• Most powerful consumer CPU available, as of late summer 2014
• Massive performance with highly threaded workloads

Price: $1040.99,  INR 72,999/-

         As is par for the course with Intel (especially with its high-end enthusiast platforms), a new chip line means you’ll need a new motherboard into which to drop your new $1,000 chip. The Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition still technically uses a 2,011-pin socket, but Intel is calling the latest version "LGA 2011 version 3," or "2011-3," and the company says you can’t pair older LGA 2011 chips with the new socket, or vice versa. 

The Core i7-5960X plays host to eight physical cores able to work on 16 threads concurrently by virtue of Hyper-Threading. So, applications optimized to break tasks into pieces are sped up through parallelism. Each core has its own 32 KB L1 instruction and data caches, along with 256 KB of L2 space. A massive 20 MB of L3 cache is shared between them, working out to the magical 2.5 MB per core Intel’s architects aim for.      
                  And while 2004’s Extreme Edition handled host processing duties exclusively, 2014’s integrates a lot more functionality. The -5960X has its own on-die PCI Express controller, exposing up to 40 lanes at 8 GT/s (that’s official PCI Express 3.0 support). It’s also armed with the world’s first quad-channel DDR4 memory controller, officially rated for data rates as high as 2133 MT/s out of the gate.    Intel rightly assumes that anyone buying a powerful workstation or gaming box will install discrete graphics cards. Rather than eating into the transistor budget with a built-in GPU, all available resources are thrown into creating a more capable host processor.

the Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition is the fastest processor we’ve tested yet on fully threaded workloads. Running software that can take advantage of its eight physical cores and 16 total threads, the chip delivers a predictable, though still impressive, performance boost over last year’s six-core Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition, as well as Intel's more recent four-core “Devil’s Canyon” chip, the Core i7-4790K.

On this synthetic test, we see that the Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition has much more raw computing potential than the four-core Core i7-4790K, and it's significantly more powerful than the six-core Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition from last year, as well.

Overclocked to 4.2GHz, the Core i7-5960X was even more impressive, turning in a score of 18.01, nearly twice that of the Core i7-4790K at stock settings.

For more UPDATES , REVIEW , NEWS just FOLLOW my BLOG  !

Latest Post - look on 2014 Tech hot list !