It may be the cheaper way to stick on the high-end Core i7 family, though that doesn’t mean it’s “poor.” Intel’s Core i7-970 ($899), that only started shipping to consumers around the month ago, has only undergone a consummate looking-over at Hot Hardware , where a six-core chip was tested alongside its some-more manly (and in turn, more dear siblings. If you’ve no seductiveness in dropping over a grand for the Core i7-980X, as well as you aren’t about to lower yourself by purchasing a quad-core Core i7-975, this here chip competence only do you unapproachable. In contrast, critics found the 970 to be quick, though hardly mind-blowing, when doing some-more mundane tasks; stir in the couple of heavily threaded applications, though, as well as it managed to “sail past” a quad-core contemporaries as well as “keep gait” with the aforementioned 980X. All told, the silicon managed to perform around 5 percent worse than a 980X, yet it rings up for around 12 percent less. If you’ve got a workflow to truly take value of all 6 cores, as well as you can stomach not having a comprehensive most appropriate, it seems as if a 970 strikes a fine change — and hey, if you’re down with overclocking, you can probably get which 5 percent behind with only the amiable uptick in your energy check.