With the X99 burned-up motherboard problem of last week appearing to be behind us with no further issues when using a completely different X99 motherboard, here's the first extensive look at the Core i7 5960X Haswell-E processor running on Ubuntu Linux.

At the end of August when the processor was introduced I wrote all about the i7-5960X and X99 on launch day with the exciting details. The Core i7 5960X is an eight core unlocked processor with Hyper Threading to yield 16 threads, runs at a 3.0GHz base frequency with 3.5GHz turbo frequency, boasts 20MB of Intel Smart Cache, 40 PCI Express 3.0 lanes, and uses the LGA 2011-v3 socket. This launch is also Intel's first desktop platform using DDR4 system memory. Intel is also launching the Core i7 5820K and 5830K for the LGA 2011-v3 socket as six-core processors (plus Hyper Threading). All three of these processors have a 140 Watt TDP.