According to a report over at Hermitage Akihabara caught by guys from Techpowerup, Intel's new Core i7 Ivy Bridge-E CPUs should launch in most markets before 11th of September. The launch starts on 4th of September so some regions and markets might get it early.


In case you missed it earlier, Intel's Ivy Bridge-E Core i7 Extreme lineup will consist of three models, the Core i7-4820K, Core i7-4930K and the Core i7-4960X. All three parts will have the same 130W TDP, fit into LGA 2011 socket and X79 chipset, have support for DDR3-1866 memory and feature official support for PCI-Express 3.0. ¸

The flagship Core i7-4960X, is a six core part with support for Hyper Threading, has 15MB of L3 cache and works at 3.6GHz base and 4GHz Turbo clock. According to earlier reports and benchmarks, the new Core i7-4960X should end up around 5 to 10 percent faster than the previous Core i7-3970X flagship but also offer quite a better energy-efficiency despite its same 130W TDP.

The entire lineup will use the existing Intel X79 Express chipset but recent rumors suggest that Intel might be working on a new one that will offer more SATA 6Gbps ports as well as integrated USB 3.0.


Source: Techpowerup.com.