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today we are going to be unboxing the fastest desktop processor on the planet this is the Intel Core i7 990 X yes this is the very same one that an extreme overclocker recently took well no it's not the very same one this is a retail sealed box but it's the same CPU model that an overclocker famous one recently took to over seven gigahertz using extreme cooling methods so this is Intel's fastest clock six core to date it is fully unlocked for all the overclocking you could possibly want to do and I am breaking the seal on it so that I can open it up and show you guys the 990 X in all of its glory so the 990 X actually doesn't change a whole lot over the older 980 X it comes in at the same price point so that is about $1000 distribution cost so means you'll see it marked up however much from your local retail or your or your local a tailor and whatever country you happen to be in okay it includes some thermal paste which we'll get to later the clock speeds of this processor at stock is three point four six gigahertz now remember that that also support it supports every technology Intel can possibly throw at a CPU so you've got 12 Meg's of cache hyper threading so that means you've got 12 threaded performance okay you've also got support for turbo boost and obviously virtualization let me see it does not have onboard video because this is an LGA 1366 socket CPU so that means you do have support for triple channel memory and it is going to run on the x58 Express chipset graphics card is required yeah see I mentioned that no graphics I'm surprised they actually have that on the box you're buying extreme edition processor no graphics card very random three year warranty as with all Intel CPUs and I think that's about all that I wanted to cover on the box so let's see what we got inside here we have some thermal paste okay which you can cut and then apply it's probably pretty good stuff from Dow Corning thermally conductive compound great okay next we have a core i7 processor extreme edition installation instructions through your limited warranty an Intel Inside logo label which is right there very nice you fix one of those to the outside of your PC and everyone knows you have an Extreme Edition processor inside alright let's have a look at the stock heatsink that is included it looks like the stock heatsink hasn't changed since the 980 X so it is a tower heatsink although the way intel has designed it is they've put a finger guard on it which is good and then they have also designed it you see right here how these blades actually go a lot lower than the fins then the cooling fins that is so that and you can also see the shape of the blades is not necessarily to blow air just that way but also to blow air kind of out the reason for that is down here at the bottom the fan is actually going to generate a lot of turbulence a lot of sort of random airflow around the CPU socket that ensures that even if your CPU are even if your motherboard uses like heat pipe design to carry all of the heat from the chipsets up to the PWM the power delivery you're going to get enough incidental airflow to cool everything from this heatsink without using a downward blowing design so it has four heat pipes uses a plastic very very rigid backplate does not have pre applied thermal compound so that is why they do include that thermal compound and it has a rather ingenious mounting system so you can actually you're using screws so you're using a bolt through mounting system you can access these ones through here cameraman through here and then the ones at the back you can see they're covered you can see they're actually covered by the heatsink so that's okay because you can use this hole in a long screwdriver in order to screw those in okay so up at the top you got an Intel logo you got a quiet mode as well as a performance mode for the fan on here this is by the look of things a 92 millimeter fan or book could be could be a hundred mil how big is this 110 110 mill correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's what that part number means so either way it is a high performance fan it actually spins up quite loud if you max it out I have used it in the past but if you put in quiet mode you shouldn't really run into too many problems with that here we'll go ahead I guess we'll throw this how do I get the CPU up I haven't actually seen this this retail box before don't think can I pull it up this way no can we fill this out first and then get it ah there we go okay so there it is the 990 X the thousand plus dollar CPU the fastest performing desktop CPU on the planet it is as I mentioned before an LGA 1366 processor with 12 Meg's of cache 3.4 gigahertz stock speed and it is 100% overclocking friendly basically if you buy one of these and you don't overclock it then I will personally write you a very angry letter there's the bottom so there's 1336 pads that will make contact with your motherboard so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the core i7 990 X fastest processor for a desktop and don't worry I won't actually write you an angry letter if you buy one and don't overclock it