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Old 3rd Nov 2008, 09:44
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Intel has today given the OK for the posting of "official" articles showing the performance of the upcoming Core i7 processors. Set to be introduced in two weeks time, together with X58 motherboards, the three Core i7 models prepared by Intel are the 2.66 GHz 920, the 2.93 GHz 940 and 3.2 GHz 965 Extreme Edition.

According to the reviews posted the Core i7 line-up is here to impress with the models being faster clock-per-clock than the 45nm Core 2 Quads. The performance increase doesn't apply to every application though with the Core i7 showing modest gains in certain games. Overall, everyone seems to agree the Core i7 is a processing powerhouse so all we ask is for Santa to fill out stocking with enough money for a CPU, 4GB of DDR3 memory and an LGA1366 motherboard. To see if you reach the same conclusion be sure to check out the Core i7 articles posted.

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I haven't actually had a chance to look through them properly yet, but this is here for everyone else that is interested, and to discuss it.

You can also Digg this here.
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Old 3rd Nov 2008, 10:53
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Dugg, good post, all the reviews nicely consolidated.
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Old 3rd Nov 2008, 14:34
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So really the i7's are just proper quad cores?


I read an article a few years ago how Intel was saying they knew the GHz battle would lead no where and that they already know that multiple cores cannot go on forever and they developing something completely different... yet this comes along.
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Old 3rd Nov 2008, 14:47
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Well this is very different, it removes FSB and replaces it with something similar to what AMD uses, also the memory controller is in the CPU, among other things.
 
Old 3rd Nov 2008, 20:27
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Yeah, Quickpath + integrated memory controller + native quad core + hyperthreading. I'm still optimistic it'll provide quite a bit of performance increases down the line but right now it's not worth it.
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Old 4th Nov 2008, 09:37
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Yea, it's the last of L2 cache, but the review I saw said they think more cache will be brough it with the 32nm shrink.
 
Old 13th Dec 2008, 04:53
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So should I buy it? I all ready collect money, but I'm not sure if is it payed off to change my rigg? And what x58 motherboard would be suite for that beast (I prefer ASUS)?
I need some advise on this.
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