Intel Core i7 pricing news

[colt1911]

Intel lifted the NDA covering its latest Core i7 processors and the reviews have hit the Internet (you can read the OCC review here). The processors are slated to launch later this month in time for the holiday shopping season. The chips to be released under the Core i7 brand are the 920 (2.66GHz), 940 (2.93GHz) and the 965 Extreme Edition (3.20GHz). The new Nehalem architecture features and integrate memory controller and a chip-to-chip interconnect called Quick Path. Before rushing out to buy one of the latest processors though, users should be aware they will need to upgrade their motherboards to one based on Intel's X58 chipset which support tri-channel DDR3 memory. As the boards also make use of a new socket users will need to upgrade their cooling solution or hope their current heat sink manufacturer offers a new mounting kit that s compatible with the new socket. Prices are expected to be $285 for the 920, $536 for the 940 and $999 for the 965 Extreme Edition, based on lots of 1,000. No firm release date has been announced but the general consensus is in the November 17/18 timeframe.

 

[bigl2007]

ok im confused

how many cores is this cpu gonna have? is it gonna be quad core or 7 or 8 cores or something lol

 

[Mitch?]

http://www.computerforum.com/133524-official-2009-45nm-thread.html

 

[prodigy2k7]

4 cores but 2 threads each so its like 8

 

[laznz1]

8 core

 

[Geoff]

8 core

Not initially. Intel will release an 8 core version, but the first ones to be released will be quad cores with HyperThreading.

 

[Scubie67]

From what I have been reading that these chips are not anybetter for gaming and only marginally better for multimedia and tasking.Also the prices appear higher than I thought they would be.

Is this true? And if it is would we better just getting one of the current Core 2 duo's or quad's if we are planning to do a new complete Pc build anyways? I guess once I7 is released there may be some really good deals with the current core 2's I am guessing?

 

[Geoff]

From what I have been reading that these chips are not anybetter for gaming and only marginally better for multimedia and tasking.Also the prices appear higher than I thought they would be.

Is this true? And if it is would we better just getting one of the current Core 2 duo's or quad's if we are planning to do a new complete Pc build anyways? I guess once I7 is released there may be some really good deals with the current core 2's I am guessing?

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2333776,00.asp

 

[Scubie67]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2333776,00.asp

Thanks for the link Omega.If those are reputable tests.(There are some typos or some missinformation,like in the Quake Wars Bench,Lower is better FPS ? ; or the 3dmark vantage where the Q9450 beats all the rest of the procs. by a considerable amount and says higher is better at the bottom ? ; Looks for gaming there isnt a whole lot of difference at the Higher res.

I figure you might pick up some good prices for some of the current Cpu's and MB when this comes out.Surely the Rampage and maybe the Q9650 and Q9550 will drop.They didnt show any Core 2 duals on this testing which is strange?

 

[bigl2007]

wow this is good

really good so how long you think i should wait b4 i get one of those cheaper quad cores when the price drops again on the Q6600 or a another quad core that maybe even better

january maybe or feb?

 

[Geoff]

Thanks for the link Omega.If those are reputable tests.(There are some typos or some missinformation,like in the Quake Wars Bench,Lower is better FPS ? ; or the 3dmark vantage where the Q9450 beats all the rest of the procs. by a considerable amount and says higher is better at the bottom ? ; Looks for gaming there isnt a whole lot of difference at the Higher res.

I figure you might pick up some good prices for some of the current Cpu's and MB when this comes out.Surely the Rampage and maybe the Q9650 and Q9550 will drop.They didnt show any Core 2 duals on this testing which is strange?

ExtremeTech is a reputable site. You are right though, for the most part there isn't much of a difference when it comes to games, but synthetic benchmarks show quite a bit of an improvement. Then again the quad core does have HT, so the extra 4 logical cores do make a difference there.