Clocked at 3.33GHz- this latest I7-975 “Extreme Edition” continues Intel’s semi-stratospheric price of $1100 retail – leaving it in the reach of only the most demanding gamers and power users who have the budget. We’ve already seen all of the top OEM and aftermarket system builders announced PCs featuring the 975 so availability is definitely out there – as of press time.

The good news is that every time an extreme edition part is released – Intel traditionally rolls back pricing on all of its lower-tier CPUs as well – so good news for all today.

Ever since the after-days of P4 – Intel’s focus to dominate the consumer market space has paid off for the chipmaker in ways that perhaps it didn’t imagine at the time – if you would’ve told me that Intel would recapture the performance crown from AMD back then there would’ve been many who’d look at you sorta funny. But Core2Duo changed the game and Nehalem continues that pedigree of insanely powerful computing to a host of varying prices that can fit into most budgets.

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Article Index 1. Intel Core i7-975 "Extreme Edition" - Review 2. A closer look 3. Test setup 4. 3DMark06 and Cinebench R10 5. PCMark Vantage and Sisoft CPU 6. SiSoft MM and COD:World at War 7. Far Cry 2 and Power use 8. Conclusion and Rating