Core i7 970 Six Core CPU - coming in a few weeks?

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The i7 - 980X is already on the market for $1,089- it looks like it's little brother i7-970 is coming in the next few weeks with a Price Tag of around $800.00 US Dollars.

tech Report said:
The e-tailer quotes a 3.2GHz clock speed and 12MB of cache, suggesting the processor has the same Gulftown silicon as the Core i7-980X. (Bloomfield-based Core i7-900 chips with four cores only have 8MB of L3 cache.) 3.2GHz doesn't seem like much of a step down from the i7-980X's 3.33GHz base clock speed, which is probably good news for bargain hunters.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18800
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Totaly not worth it imo...way overpriced.

Unless Intel lower their prices on the 6 core....i think AMD will be getting alot more attention this year.....Yeah the Intel 6 core may perform better than whatever AMD chucks out but it wont be that far behind and probably half the price what Intel are asking.
 
Agreed, waaay over priced, though, I am glad the tech keeps advancing. These are pretty much going to stay enthusiast/specialty market parts until they drop into the $300-500 "high-end" consumer bracket. But, you always pay top dollar for the bleeding-edge of technology.

Here's hoping the "960" equivalent will be below $500!
 
Zatharus said:
Agreed, waaay over priced, though, I am glad the tech keeps advancing. These are pretty much going to stay enthusiast/specialty market parts until they drop into the $300-500 "high-end" consumer bracket. But, you always pay top dollar for the bleeding-edge of technology.

Here's hoping the "960" equivalent will be below $500!
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I have to agree, if it was going to be priced at/below $500, I would have no problem paying that, but at $800, I would probably just cough up the extra $200 for the EE edition.
 
For the price of a 980x you could build an entire AMD rig with a phenom II x6 (1090t) and some cash left over.
 
I agree with Linkin. The Core i7 980X is presently at a ridiculous price. No processor is worth $1,000 in my opinion presently. For $300 you can get a really good processor.
 
Yeah, people spend an awful lot for bragging rights with cutting edge technology, and it doesn't last. Just look at the "Extreme" processors from a generation ago (2-3 years) and compare them to the performance of "bargain" CPUs now. The upside is that in 2-3 years, CPUs with the performance of the 980x will be very affordable.
 
IMHO, AMD's gonna destroy Intel in the Hexa-core market with the Phenom ii X6s until Intel releases their six-core equivalent of the i7 920 (with 32nm cores, that is.) The truth is, a minority of the market is willing to pay $200 more for every extra 166MHz a CPU is clocked at, no matter how powerful it is.
 
spynoodle said:
IMHO, AMD's gonna destroy Intel in the Hexa-core market with the Phenom ii X6s until Intel releases their six-core equivalent of the i7 920 (with 32nm cores, that is.) The truth is, a minority of the market is willing to pay $200 more for every extra 166MHz a CPU is clocked at, no matter how powerful it is.
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Really ?

What if I tell you that the current Intel i5/i7 can compete very well against Phenom II X6 ?

There already a benchmark from a Chinese website that has Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarked. Here is the link
http://diy.pconline.com.cn/cpu/reviews/1004/2096865.html

i7 920 performed better in all the benchmarks (except in cinebench). Even the i5 750 (which is in the same price range) perfomed very well against 1055T.

You might now tell me that Chinese benchmarks are not reliable. But in few days we will all see benchmarks from anandtech, so let us wait before we make quick conclusionshttp://www.google.com/search?num=30...result&cd=1&ved=0CAUQBSgA&q=anandtech&spell=1
 
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I do hope that AMD will have something to compete with in the high-end market soon. That can only benefit everyone. I am very curious how the post-release benchmarks will turn out.
 
Prices will come down in time.
I read in pc format magazine that next year intel will release six core cpu's for the lga 1156 platform.
when the i7 came out they were ridiculously expensive until they brought out cheaper versions (i7 860 etc.)
 
maroon1 said:
Really ?

What if I tell you that the current Intel i5/i7 can compete very well against Phenom II X6 ?

There already a benchmark from a Chinese website that has Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarked. Here is the link
http://diy.pconline.com.cn/cpu/reviews/1004/2096865.html

i7 920 performed better in all the benchmarks (except in cinebench). Even the i5 750 (which is in the same price range) perfomed very well against 1055T.

You might now tell me that Chinese benchmarks are not reliable. But in few days we will all see benchmarks from anandtech, so let us wait before we make quick conclusionshttp://www.google.com/search?num=30...result&cd=1&ved=0CAUQBSgA&q=anandtech&spell=1
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Dude, I totally agree with you: in my post I meant only in the hexa-core market. Not including quads. Sorry if it was misleading.:( I still think that the quad i7s are gonna compete quite well with the Phenom ii X6s. Intel just hasn't released any cheap versions of the 32nm hexa-i7s yet. I can't wait until they do, though. I wanna see the price difference between the i7 920. Since the i7 980x is already pretty close to the 975, I expect the i7 915, or whatever they'll call it, to be very competetively priced.
 
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What I'm really wanting to see is solid state drives reading faster than 400 megabytes per second. It seems processors just keep getting further ahead of secondary storage devices. Hard drives and solid state drives are really falling behind processors. I wonder how much faster we will see systems get without a major technology advancement with secondary storage devices?
 
Everything put aside except for price, I really think AMD will tear it up. Why? Because EVERYONE wants to say "I have a six-core CPU in my rig" without having to be rich.
 
2048Megabytes said:
What I'm really wanting to see is solid state drives reading faster than 400 megabytes per second. It seems processors just keep getting further ahead of secondary storage devices. Hard drives and solid state drives are really falling behind processors. I wonder how much faster we will see systems get without a major technology advancement with secondary storage devices?
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OCZ has one that runs on PCI slot. Gets around 900mb read/ write speed.
 
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