Intel Core i9-7940X, 14 Cores & 28 Threads Turbo Unlocked X-Series Desktop Processor

Since I'm probably the only confirmed buyer of the 14-core 7940x CPU as of the start of 2018, I figured I'd add a short review. First off - is it overkill? Yes, unless you are, say, a content creator or AI developer. Even if you are a game streamer/video creator, a 7900x with 10 cores would give you more than enough parallel processing power. But if you want to go beyond the 10 cores for machine learning or video production, I do believe the 7940x represents the sweet spot in terms of price and performance. It has a base (non-turbo) frequency of 3.1 GHz , whereas the 7960x, 7980x, and 7920x can only run below 3Ghz when all cores are active. The maximum "Intel turbo boost 3.0" frequency is only slightly lower than the 7900x ( 4.4Ghz vs 4.5Ghz) which should be easily fixable with a very small overclock. And it currently looks like this is the one Skylake-X family member that easily equals or beats the flagship 1950x Threadripper (16 threads) in most multicore performance benchmarks. Temperatures on a realistic full stress application ( BOINC World Community Grid) average around the mid-70-ies Celcius with an ambient room temperature of 23C/74F. I'm running this on an Asus Prime X299-Deluxe and cooling it with a Corsair Hydro Series H100i . (I have also delidded it to replace the thermal paste with Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra.) If I wanted to only game with it I would have happily kept using my 2+ year old 6700k and maybe tried a mild overclock.

So after finally deciding on upgrading my Xeon system which has done me nothing but justice for over 6 years I finally decided on going back to Intel after considering going over to AMD. With all the fuss on the New Threadripper I just could not go away from Intel processor and decided to go with the new 7940X processor, after carefully researching all the blogs and reviews this seemed to be the most well rounded choice that many others have settled on so I pulled the trigger and ordered everything for my new build and not holding back on anything I upgraded the video cards to the then new, GTX 1080Ti FTW3's. I went with the water cooling pump from CORSAIR HYDRO Series H150i PRO RGB and 2-2TB M.2 drives and 128 of Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 Ram. I must say after tweaking the system a bit not much this has become a rock solid build that has far surpassed my Xeon build!!! This machine is a freaking powerhouse a CPU that can run all of my 3d rendering and Autocad with relative ease and I never go over 67c!! I would highly recommend this CPU if you have questions of this CPU just look at the pictures I have attached! Yes it is running all the monitors you see which are 3-43inch LG 4k, 3-LG 27inch monitors and a Samsung 65inch TV all at once!!! Enjoy!!!

Spent over $1000 to get an I9... I was happy to see when it got here quickly. The box said I9 and everything looked good. Started building the PC and didn't make it very far... I went to pop in the cpu and it was not lining up correctly. I thought I was doing something wrong. After AN HOUR of trying to figure it out I realized the CPU said XEON E5-2603. I did a quick google search to find out that I got sent a cheap $300 processor. This has put my build on hold costing me money since I need it for work. Ridiculous.

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