A few weeks back, Neowin reported that Intel would be phasing out their Core i7 940 and 965 Extreme CPUs on September 4, 2009. Now, details on their successors, the Core i7 950 and 975 Extreme, have trickled out from various unofficial listings of the CPUs.PCs for everyone has a listing for the Core i7 950 CPU. If details they possess are accurate, the processor would retail for $649.00 and will be made available on May 31. It is available for pre-order on their website. The 950 is set to replace the 940 when it is phased out.
Specs of the Core i7 950:
- Product Type: Desktop
- Product Line: Core i7
- Socket: LGA1366 Socket
- Clock Speed: 3.06 GHz
- QuickPath: 4.8 GT/s
- L3 Cache: 8 MB Shared
- L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
- L1 Cache: 4 x 64 KB
- Package Type: 1366-land Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA8)
- Threads: 8
- Manufacturing Process: 45 nm
- Thermal Design Power: 130W
- Thermal Specification: 67.9°C
- Core Voltage: 0.8 - 1.375V
- Intel VT: Yes
- Clock Speed: 3.33 GHz
- Socket: LGA1366
- Cache: 8MB
- QuickPath: 6.4 GT/s
As time goes on and they start working on the their next CPU (which is likely to be already), the prices will lower.
Anyone know if or when they are going to bring out a new Quad Core Range want to upgrade my PC any info would be appreciated
I mean, properly in stock and not as a pre-order.
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_p...p;cPath=187_346
Also, PCCASEGEAR does not ship internationally.
When can I get one!
950 will replace 940 920 hasn't had replacement put forward though.
But price is more the issue I'm sure. Before we look at more cores we need to get faster L3 in there, with less latency.
But price is more the issue I'm sure. Before we look at more cores we need to get faster L3 in there, with less latency.
Incorrect. Nehalem MP Xeon based processors are 45nm, yes, similar architecture, yes but only gainstown/bloomfield DP/UP Xeons use socket LGA-1366. The 8 core Xeon nehalem-EX MP a.k.a beckton is socket LGA-1576. Tbh i believe it's got more to do with fact 45nm and possibly LGA-1366 they can't fit/read the 2.3bn transistors it uses so that's why I am saying you probably won't see a core i7 line 8 core/16 thread processor until they shrink to 32nm in later 2010 on the tock.
But there's the thing. When I've used MeGui in the past, only one thread has worked on encoding the video, so how can people say a quad core is faster than a dual core at this task?
So if I encoded a DVD -> ??? with this Sony Vegas, it would use however many cores/threads the CPU has? In my E8300's case, it would use both cores together?
Intel hit the nail in the donkey's arse with the x58 architecture.. mega fast throughput!
Intel hit the nail in the donkey's arse with the x58 architecture.. mega fast throughput!
why push for 4GHz? they should be pushing for more instructions per clock, not a faster clock...
Someone hasn't been reading CPU history... You want another Pentium 4 fiasco?
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