Processor are the main components of a PC which impact the performance more than any other components and people should read reviews of the processors and then decide to buy a CPU for their PC and mostly people do this these days, some read the reviews for increasing their knowledge and some read just when they are in position to but a processor. Extreme gamers are mostly very chosey when they went into market for buying a CPU. Intel Core processors are very reliable and perform great and hot favorite of gamers. Today we review Intel Core i7 Extreme Processor, Core i7 965 EE.
Core i7 965EE has 4 Cores with Hyper threading technology i.e. 8 threads. I7 965 EE has 8MB of cache and it is one the first extreme processors of Core i family. Core i7 965 EE support 24GB of triple channel memory.
The Core i7 965 EE is a LGA 1366 socket based and x58 chipset motherboards support this CPU and we used ASUS Saber tooth x58 motherboard while running benchmarks. Core i7 965 EE supports triple channel memory max 24GB and we used corsair 16GB kit. Core i7 965 EE supports turbo boost technology and it was one of earlier turbo booting processors from Intel in core family.Being the curious sort we tried all three of the methodologies describe above and got our best results from utilizing a combination of increasing the processor core multipliers and increasing the base clock rate. Intel has pretty much drawn a line in the sand when it comes to using VDimm settings of greater than 1.65 Volts. They have gone as far as to say that disregarding this warning will likely lead to permanent damage of your new $999.00 CPU. Not wanting to gain fame as the first reviewer to scorch a Core i7-965XE while still in the initial benchmarking phase of the review I kept things well on the South side of that mark. The Overclocking is not hard to do with Core i7 965 EE but if you are doing it 1st time then obviously you will have some difficulties as well. We found that the best overclock for the Intel Core i7-965XE was quite easily obtained by setting the multiplier to 29 on all cores, increasing the base clock rate to 144 MHz and using a 250mv default voltage override. This resulted in a clock speed of 4.035 GHz which proved to be rock stable. We were able to attain significantly higher clock speeds that approached 4.3 GHz but we had to use votages that were a bit to close to the 1.65 Volt limit for our liking. The Core i7 965 EE has power gate and controlling technology built-in so if you are not using 2 cores then it will shut off them and save the power and automatically activate them when required. The temperature management technology is also on this chip.
Lets take a look at BenchMarks.......
We review Extreme Intel Core CPUs of 2nd Gen but today we thought to review extreme CPU of 1st Gen as well. The Core i7 965 EE was a best processor when it was released and was the enthusiasts choice because of its performance and triple channel memory and power management as well. It has good overclocking ability in its family but we are surprised to see it price at amazon $990 at the time of review. It still much expensive.
- Decent Performance.
- Good Overclocking.
- Unlock Multipliers.
- Power Management.
- Triple channel Memory.
- Still Expensive.
- It was a great CPU but not now.
