 Now this is a 6 core processor that's been on the market for a long time But there is a reason that I have not unboxed it yet The reason is that it was not really priced in sort of in line with what I would really consider buying Okay, so let's leave it at that But with the recent price drop from Intel this CPU is now down to sort of real people level of pricing And it used to be that it was only like a hundred bucks or so less Than the then the extreme edition 6 core 980x well now it's Significantly less so it actually makes a fair bit of sense to invest in a 970 So a 970 as I mentioned before is a 6 core processor the stock clock speed of this guy is actually 3.2 gigahertz so it is a very very very fast chip and it features hyper threading it has 12 megs of cash in Fact besides the lower clock speed it has all of the same features as the extreme edition chips But for a much lower price about half, so what's the drawback you guys? Well it includes the same installation instructions three-year warranty and Intel inside logo label although you can see the logo label is now blue Instead of black which is obviously less high performance We have the same included 6 core ready Intel stock heatsink so that is with the large fan Tower heatsink it has four heat pipes lots of incidental airflow for the area around the CPU socket nice rigid backplate nice smooth contact surface as well as Where'd it go ah here? It is as well as some included. No, that's not it Is it in here camera man's pointing at the oh yeah? There's this as well as included thermal compound ah? Yes, got it Just like that okay, so it has included thermal compound It has a performance and quiet switch for the included fan and uses a four pin sleeved PWM fan Alright, so it has all that going for it It goes on the LGA 1366 socket. Just like the extreme edition processors It is this size and shape just like the extreme edition processors Looks just like an extreme edition processor, so the difference is that it is not unlocked This is not an unlocked processor however Unlike the p67 platform the x58 chipset does support overclocking of non unlocked processors So with a little bit more effort and a little bit more skill you can actually take a 970 to nearly the same speeds that you can achieve with a 980x or a 990x unlocked processor So basically it's just a matter of it's missing the extreme label And it is not unlocked those are the disadvantages of grabbing a 970 So this as far as six cores go is the best value from Intel at the time of filming this unboxing Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips, and thank you for watching!