INTEL PROCESSORS

INTEL® CORE™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition

Product information

1. 3.20 GHz core speed
2. 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
3. 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
4. 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

Features and benefits
Get extreme with your gaming and
advanced multimedia. Intel Core i7 processors deliver an
incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature
the latest innovations in processor technologies:

Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for
demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload-more performance when you need it the most.²

Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.³

Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.

Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.

Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.

Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.