Codenamed 'Bloomfield', now branded Intel Core i7 is set to be the biggest launch of Intel's processor core line up.The chip family officially launches on November 17, 2008, setting you back $280 to $999 for the higher end model.
The chips come in 3 models, 920, 940, and the higher end model 965 Extreme Edition. All models of the chip feature 4 cores, 256 kb L2 Cache and 8 MB Shared L3 Cache, ranging from 2.66 GHz to 3.2 GHz, with 800-1600 MHz 3xDDR3 memory controllers, in a LGA1366 socket.
Even more amazingly, this chip features Intel's Hyper-Threading technology, which can run two simultaneous threads, per core. The chip can also power down each of its cores to a zero power state when the chip is idle, for maximum power efficiency.
Early tests show this chip can out-perform its predecessor Yorkfield up to 17% in single core tests. In the single-thread tests of Super-Pi 1M tests, the Intel Core i7 running at 2.66 GHz performed the test in 15.36 seconds.
With just a few days away, will Intel finally be able to bury its rival AMD, and continue its dominance in the hardware market? Time will show if the falling US economy has any effect on the release of what could be the biggest release of Intel's career.
And have all the joys of either a buggy chipset or an unsupported one - for those of us who don't run Windows. Marvellous - call me back when AMD actually stop being Microsoft's b*tch, then I might take an interest.
buggy or unsupported chipset... ? can't say i've ever heard of such thing but anywho my chipsets an nvidia one so i don't expect much from it anyway even though it's running perfectly well and whole computer costed less then it was to buy a good quad core cpu from intel.
costless and performless !
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lol playing crysis on high smoothly is performless ? ok ...
Last edited by Digix on 09 Nov 2008 - 22:32
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lol playing crysis on high smoothly is performanceless ? ok ...
crysis is gpu limited anyway
you didnt get the math amd Quad costless and perform less compared to
intel Quad which pwn them
they came late ... the built the hype .... they lose .... the deserve to be lughed at !
The new motherboard and socket where expected for a long time, the new Core i7 is pretty different than the current C2Q, even if the basic cores are the same. The new memory controller on-die along with QPI make all the difference.
Some Core i7 motherboards will have 6 DIMM slots. If you assume each DIMM slot can take a 4GB DIMM, then it can have up to 24.5 GB of RAM:
6 DIMMs x 4GB per DIMM = 24576 MB or 24.5 GB.
However, some Core i7 motherboards will only have 3+1 DIMM slots.
I'm still surprised to see that battery technology within laptops haven't really improved... Dissapointing
well wait 2-3 years more
The Hyper-Threading is for each of the 4 cores, which will trick them as being 8 cores.
i refered to '8' real cores processor
cause a Quadcore + HT (or as they call it SMT) is still Quadcore 4 physhical cores , 8 logical cores
I think were a long way from referring to it as 8 cores despite what the OS may report. Doing so would be like cutting flintstones style holes in the floor of your car and saying that its twice as fast as you can poke your legs out at low speeds and have an extra engine.
Last edited by Unplugged on 10 Nov 2008 - 10:18
Wrong, Intel has stated that HT will be turned on by default in the BIOS....
or is it just so you can play Sins of a Solar Empire
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