i7 990x

has anyone news about the i7 990x stepping enz enz ?

anyone see a ES of the i7 990x .

B1 stepping for both Core i7 and Xeon parts.

They're ES's of course, but I don't think they have a new stepping for the retails.

so it is the same as the 980x

only stock speeds are more

Slightly better binning, perhaps?

Binning won't help in any way regarding the CPU's longevity under extreme cooling / overclocking.

Endurance won't change unless they enhanced the manufacturing process or revise the core ( which warrants a new revision/stepping )

Slightly better binning, perhaps?

i'm not sure but

670 was good....when they came out with the 680...they bumped my 680's vid to attain higher speed.

my 680 wasn't binned higher...

vid comparison was my way of comparing these two procs.

I was under the impression the 990x was a new silicon revision.

ES doing up to 5GHz on water?

My (fairly cynical) question..... will 990x retails be as good as the ES?

Nobody I know has a 990X ES

Who told you about that ( 5GHz on water 990X ES ) ?

Its on BSN, but i've heard it from more reliable sources too

The processor is set to debut in just a few weeks, during September 2010. From what we managed to learn, the i7-990X is based on a new stepping of Intel's 32nm Gulftown core consisted out of six cores and additional six threads. The clock is upped from 3.33GHz to 3.46GHz, while the Turbo mode ticking at 3.6GHz. According to preliminary results we have received, you should have no problems in clocking this processor past 4.5GHz on air, and 5GHz on water should be granted.

According to our sources, engineers are delighted with the new stepping, as the company is about to roll out new Xeon processors with accordingly high clock-speeds. Given that in some cases, the overclocked Gulftown beat our 24-core AMD Opteron 6100 [Magny-Cours] setup, it looks like the execution beast named Intel isn't stopping anytime soon. Bear in mind that this will not be the first Gulftown clocked at 3.46GHz. At the beginning of 2010, Intel released a quad-core version [two cores disabled] named Xeon X5677, which featured 12MB of L3 cache, just like the fully-fledged sexa-core versions. The clocks varied from 1.86 to 3.46GHz, as Gulftown became the first Intel core to ship at 3.46GHz following the ill-fated Prescott architecture and the long-forgotten Pentium 4 EE 955.

All the Xeon parts I've seen and been given some info about by a lil' birdie are B1 stepping.

Anyway, we'll find out for real sooner or later.

Well....i'd be happier if I could sell mine before then