Intel Core i7 990X

Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition-990X many vendors are expected to range after its launch in the first quarter of this year. Although at this time Intel does not make an official announcement about this new chip, but the two products on HP's board be an option to upgrade using these processors.

Core i7-990X-based six-core, 12 thread SKU, supported clocked at 3.46GHz and can run up to 3.73GHz thanks to Intel's Turbo Boost technology that increases the frequency of the processor.

In addition, the chip is equipped with features 12MB of L3 cache, has a TDP of 130W and built using 32nm manufacturing process. These processors also have integrated memory controller that can accommodate up to 24 GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory.


Core i7-990X appear in the system of elite elite HP Pavilion 580t and 590t as an upgrade option. Both the desktop offers users a variety of series Core i7 900. For carrying 590t Pavilion Elite Core i7 CPU i7-970 and-980X. Pavilion 580t Then add some other processors that have lower prices of the Core i7-930, i7-960 and i7-975 Extreme Edition.

580t and 590t Pavilion can support up to 24 GB of DDR3 memory and can be integrated with a maximum storage capacity of 4TB and supported RAID 0 / 1. In fact, the system on both the HP product can be configured with high-performance ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, TV tuner is optional, and Sound Blaster.


HP Pavilion 580t priced at around $ 999 which has a specification of the Core i7-930 CPUs, 8GB RAM, 750 GB hard drive, DVD + / -R/RWSuperMulti drives, graphics cards and ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB. While Pavilion 580t priced at around $ 1,699 configuration that comes with the CPU i7-970 Core, 9GB RAM, 1.5 TB SATA 3Gb / s drives, graphics card ATI Radeon HD 5570 1GB, and a player Blu-ray/SuperMulti DVD burner.