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Intel Core i7-860 Pro Reviews

expertreviews‘s review Edit

This incredibly powerful processor is a great choice if you're looking to regularly undertake HD video editing and encoding.
8.0 Rated at:

Published on:
Oct 20, 2009

ITreviews‘s review Edit

All in all we'd have to still recommend socket 1366 to buyers with a larger budget. The extra PCI Express lanes will become increasingly important, whilst the superior upgrade path and better overclockability provide tangible benefits right now. 1156 is still highly desirable for the mainstream market, though we think the i5 line of chips is arguably a better fit for this sort of user.
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Published on:
Dec 08, 2009

www.pcper.com‘s review Edit

The Core i7-860 jumps out as being the "better deal" even if the numbers don't completely justify it to me. The added benefits of being able to run 8 threads rather than 4 might seem like overkill to many, but I feel like the extra cost is more than justified by the headroom it provides. I must say, that even after reading my own results and finding that the Core i5-750 was the better value in terms of performance-per-dollar, I would personally still lean to the i7-860 as my purchase option for a new PC.
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Published on:
Sep 15, 2009

bit-tech‘s review Edit

If you're too lazy or scared to overclock, the Core i7-860 is faster thanks to Turbo Boost (rev 2), but the Core i7-920 is far faster when manually overclocked.
5.0 Rated at:

Published on:
Sep 08, 2009

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