Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The new Intel Core i7 980 will hit stores on June 26

The newest processor Intel socket LGA 1366 Core i7 980 will hit stores on June 26. The i7-980 (BX80613I7980) is a variant of the Core i7 XE no-980X Extreme Edition, which has its multiplier locked at 25x. His 6-core chip delivers a rated speed of 3.33GHz, which can be increased up to 3.60Ghz with Intel Turbo Boost.

Unlike the Extreme Edition, i7-980 uses a QPI speed of 4.8 GT/s. With hyperthreading enabled, the chip operating system provides a total of 12 logical cores to work. The chip has 256KB of dedicated L2 caches per core and a shared L3 cache 12Mb. As all processors in the LGA 1366, works with RAM triple channel The Intel Core i7 980 will be available in stores starting June 26 this year at an MSRP of $ 583 USD, will replace the Core i7 970 in this range price.

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