 Today we are going to be unboxing the fastest Desktop processor on the planet. This is the Intel core i7 990x yes, this is the very same one that an extreme overclocker recently took well No, it's not the very same one. This is a retail sealed box But it's the same CPU model that an overclocker famous one recently took to over 7 gigahertz Using extreme cooling methods, so this is Intel's fastest clocked 6 core to date It is fully unlocked for all the overclocking you could possibly want to do and I am breaking the seal on it So that I can open it up and show you guys the 990x in all of its glory So the 990x actually doesn't change a whole lot over the older 980x it comes in at the same price point So that is about a thousand dollars distribution cost so it means you'll see it marked up however much From your local retail or your or your local e-tailer in whatever country you happen to be in Okay, it includes some thermal paste which we'll get to later the clock speeds of this processor at stock is 3.46 gigahertz now remember that that also support it supports every technology Intel can possibly throw out a CPU So you got 12 megs of cache hyper threading so that means you've got 12 threaded performance, okay, you've also got support for turbo boost and Obviously virtualization let me see it does not have onboard video because this is an LGA 1366 socket CPU so that means you do have support for triple channel memory, and it is going to run on the x58 Express chipset graphics card is required. Yes, I mentioned that no graphics I'm surprised they actually have that on the box you're buying extreme edition processor. No graphics card very random three-year warranty as with all Intel CPUs, and I think that's about all that I wanted to cover on the box, so let's see what we got inside Here we have some thermal paste okay, which you can cut and then apply it's probably pretty good stuff from Dow Corning Hmm thermally conductive compound great okay next we have a core i7 processor extreme edition installation instructions Three-year limited warranty and Intel inside logo label, which is right there very nice You have fixed one of those to the outside of your PC and everyone knows you have an extreme edition processor inside All right, let's have a look at the stock heat sink that is included It looks like the stock heat sink hasn't changed since the 980x so it is a tower heat sink Although the way Intel has designed it is they've put a finger guard on it Which is good, and then they have also designed it you see right here How these blades actually go a lot lower than the fins than the cooling fins? That is so that and you can also see the shape of the blades is not necessarily to blow air just that way But also to blow air kind of out the reason for that is down here at the bottom The fan is actually going to generate a lot of turbulence a lot of sort of random airflow around the CPU socket That ensures that even if your CPU or even if your motherboard Uses like heat pipe design to carry all of the heat from the chipsets up to the PWM the power delivery You're going to get enough incidental airflow to cool everything from this heat sink without using a downward blowing design So it has four heat pipes uses a plastic very very rigid backplate does not have pre-applied thermal compound So that is why they do include that thermal compound, and it has a rather ingenious mounting system So you can actually you're using screws, so you're using a bolt through mounting system. You can access these ones through here Camera man through here, and then the ones at the back you can see they're covered You can see they're actually covered by the heat sink So that's okay because you can use this hole in a long screwdriver in order to screw those in okay So up at the top you got an Intel logo You got a quiet mode as well as a performance mode for the fan on here This is by the look of things a 92 millimeter fan although it could be could be a hundred mil How big is this? 110 so 110 mil fan okay correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that's what that part number means So either way it is a high performance fan It actually spins up quite loud if you max it out I have used it in the past, but if you put it in quiet mode You shouldn't really run into too many problems with that here, and we'll go ahead and I guess we'll throw this How do I get the CPU out? Haven't actually seen this this retail box before Don't think Can I pull it out this way? Nope Can I pull this out first and then get it ah there we go Okay, so there it is the 990x 1000 plus dollar CPU the fastest performing desktop CPU on the planet It is as I mentioned before an LGA 1366 processor with 12 megs of cache 3.4 gigahertz stock speed and it is 100% Overclocking friendly basically if you buy one of these and you don't overclock it then I will Personally write you a very angry letter There's the bottom so there's 1336 pads that will make contact with your motherboard, so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the core i7 990x fastest processor for a desktop and Don't worry. I won't actually write you an angry letter if you buy one and don't overclock it