When everyone is much sidetracked with MWC 2011, Intel has secretly dropped its latest yet dated Bloomfield processor, Core i7 990X into stores. Amidst all the controversy behind the recall of Sandy Bridge chipsets, Intel is still keen to launch new processor for this much dated yet still very powerful in some way platform, the X58.

Since it’s just a bumped up 980X, most of the specifications are the same. The 990X is a 32nm processor. Six cores are available here much like the 980X, and with Hyper Threading you get twelve virtual threads. L3 Cache is the same at 12MB, and you only get 1 QPI link. Clock speed is of 3.46GHz, but with Intel’s SpeedStep Turbo you’re getting speed of up to 3.73GHz. As usual, it’s considered an “Extreme Edition” processor, so the price is also over at the extreme level of $999 per tray.

SOURCE via Intel