The first consumer six-core processor on the market priced at 999$ US .Because nowadays multi-cores have become a necessity and normal processors don’t get higher than 3.6GHz, the only way to improve the CPU performance has become adding cores and working on the clocking. This particular model offers 6 cores and works at 3.4GHz and 3.6GHz clocked. The Core i7 980X, with that X for Extreme, clocked at a 3.33GHz clock frequency is to date the fastest multi-core consumer processor on the market, yet it retains a TDP of 130W. Having this should really obliterate the problem of operating systems asking for too much resources.