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Intel Ivy Bridge-E 4960X CPU Review (LN2 inside)

CPU by leeghoofd @ 2013-09-09

After upgrading the performance of the mainstream platform by the Haswell family, the Intel engineers also devoted time to perform an overhaul on their high end platform, LGA 2011. The Sandy Bridge-E was a worthy successor of the old and aged LGA1366. Intel waited close to two years for manufacturing the new high end flagship CPU model available to the masses, this in contradiction with the launch schedule on some previously leaked roadmaps. As with the transition from Sandy to Ivy Bridge on the LGA1155 socket, we spot many similarities with the new Ivy Bridge-E. A die shrink to the 22nm process and alike architectural improvements should boost the performance and efficiency. Time to unravel the brand new Intel flagship LGA2011 CPU: the i7-4960X CPU.

Test Setup and Methodology

Normally with each press kit, Intel includes one of it's own high end boards for testing purposes. Due to the fact there is no successor yet for the X79 chipset, we opted to utilise the ASUS ROG Rampage IV Extreme motherboard and flashed with the 4301 Ivy Bridge-E compatible bios. This board would also serve as the perfect testbed for our extreme cooling tests.

TEST SETUP :

Intel Core i7 3960X/4960X
Corsair H80i cooler
ASUS Rampage Extreme IV (4301 bios) (4401 bios for LN2)
8GB Corsair Dominator PC12800C8 (4 x 2GB) Platinum 2800C11 (4 x 4GB)
AMD 7970HD Catalyst 13.4 driver
Western Digital 1TB Green Caviar
Corsair HX 1050 PSU
Corsair Vengeance case
Windows 7 Professional 64Bit SP1 fully patched.

Note: All the Intel CPUs were run with the enhanced Turbo, meaning all cores run at the same speed !!

All tests are conducted three times and the average run is then calculated. During the first pages, the out of the box performance is displayed. Then we look a bit closer clock per clock versus it's main rivals. Memory divider tests are up next and finally the Overclocking part is split up in first, the daily possible overclocks and then to conclude the testing we go subzero to push the envelope.

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