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hey guys Matt here today and today of Intel's latest and greatest desktop processor on hand the 40 nanometer Broadwell a beast that everyone seems to be talking about you may expect me to look a little more excited to be holding an unlocked 10 core processor but there's a reason for my lack of enthusiasm the price rather than leave the bad news to the end let's talk about the elephant in the room yeah for some unexplained reason intelius decided to raise the roof and they already extremely extreme extreme edition CPU price frankly the core i7 59 60 X was already a bit of a joke at a thousand dollars and although I oh my myself and very much like it I am the first to admit it was never worth paying more than double the asking price of the 47 90k for example still while Intel's mainstream platform remains limited to quad core eight threaded processes those wanting more cores have had to turn to the much more expensive LGA 2011 dash 3 platform with rumors of an upcoming 10 core i7 processor circulating for some time now everyone including myself was hoping expecting or just assuming that were replaced the 59 60 X is the new one thousand dollar extreme edition offering sadly this hasn't been the case as would be consumers in our face with a horrific asking price 1750 us or 2550 australian dollars which is probably similar money many of you spend on your first card or possibly even more this for me at least makes the 650 air supreme at affair by that i mean my initial excitement for this product went out the door the second i learned of the price don't care who you are there's no possible way of justifying that price it would have been a challenge a thousand dollars but 1750 it's impossible still in the hope that potential buyers offer a 14 core 28 32 xeon e5 26 a TV for instead or AMD eventually comes out with them forcing intel to reduce the price of the 69 50 x we're going to take a quick look at a few benchmarks namely premiere pro CC and ashes of the singularity these results are based on a premiere pro CC workload provided by intel based on professional level video editing using 4k 30fps 26 for mp4 footage recorded at a bit rate of approximately 80 megabits per second the input file sizes total 1.9 gigabytes and total two minutes and 21 seconds the audio stream is 1536 kilobits per second 48 kilohertz 16-bit stereo in web format the performance test measures the time to explore the entire clip to a 4k h.264 mp4 format the output is a high quality 4k video file the core i7 6950 X took just 186 seconds to complete the work load making a twenty percent faster than the 59 60 X and fifty-six percent faster than the 6700 k out of interest I threw in some older Sandy Bridge processors overclocked along with an overclocked FX 8370 processor for reference it is clear that the 69 50x can provide serious performance gains and extreme workloads but does that extra twenty percent performance over the 59 60 X justify the almost seventy percent increase in price I think not I know most of you guys you're going to want to know what the game performance looks like and I can tell you the 69 50 X is not a gaming cpu much like the 59 60 X which is often our class by the much less expensive 6700 k and 6600 k processes the only game i can think of that would come close to showing any benefits using a ten core processor would be Ashley the singularity running under DirectX 12 as you can see when paired with the GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card the 69 50 X was just 2 FPS faster than the 59 60 X and for FPS faster than 6,700 k keep in mind this test isn't a realistic representation of the settings gamers are going to be using given we're only testing a 1080p using standard or medium quality settings using the same unrealistic settings we also took note of the cpu frame rate which is essentially an estimated FPS based on how fast the system would have been if the system wasn't bottleneck by the GPU let us say what would happen if we put a much faster GPU in the system this is actually a very accurate measure of CPU performance here we see that when let loose the 6950 X is a good bit faster than 59 60 X and significantly faster than the 60 70 okay now this is much more like how I suspect most GD x 1080 owners will play ashes of the singularity with the exception of the resolution which will likely be 1440p or greater now with more realistic settings in play the six and 50 x 59 60 x + 6 + 700 k i'll deliver exactly the same performance while the overclock sandybridge processes aren't far behind the crazy quality cpu framerate results do favor the 69 50x while this is great news for extreme power users it does mean you will require a GPU configuration there's significantly more powerful than a single GD x 1080 and possibly much more powerful than even two of these flagship graphics cards one of the most impressive aspects to the ten core 6950 x is its efficiency here we see a total system consumption of just 182 wats with all 10 callers placed on a 100-percent load that's a six percent saving over the 59 60 X in the same system despite the fact that we have two more higher clock towards working at full capacity performance wise the core i7 6950 X is great it's at least twenty percent faster than 59 60 X when all calls are being utilized and it consumes less power and a full load that's a win-win as far as I'm concerned as mentioned in the beginning of this short review the issue with the 69 50 X lies squarely with the price a 1750 us or 2550 AUD the meds will not exist a bit like LGA 1151 broadwell processors in fact of which there are only two so what is the alternative for desktop users requiring a huge amount of cause well one of my most popular videos today was a look at the Xeon e5 26 7 t roughly three months ago now this eight core 16 thread processor is based on the old sandy bridge architecture and due to an oversupply on the second-hand market this one's 1550 less server processor can be had on ebay for just 60 US dollars and landed in Australia for as little as seventy five dollars the good news here is that two of these processes can be purchased and stuck on a dual socket server grade motherboard as a follow up to this video I've ordered the super micro mb dx9 dr3 for 570 australian dollars from newegg along with a pair of xeon e5 2670 processes the board and processor combo is worth a little over seven hundred australian dollars but all offers 16 cores and 32 threads it'll be super interesting to see if you can match or even beat the performance of the core i7 6950 x4 professional level video editing thanks for joining me again a hard one box i'm your host man as always if you haven't yet hit subscribe and i'll see you guys next time you