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i7 isn't a gaming cpu :(

its going to have a much smaller 256kb L2 cache, and a much slower 8mb L3 cache. it's probably meant for stability and power users who don't need realtime processing, but who need lots of multi-threading as well as extreme stability and reliability.

still going to be good though, lol
 
he combination of a faster FSB, Faster memory operations, and more efficient threading will lead to a massive speed increase on the whole though
 
its going to have a much smaller 256kb L2 cache, and a much slower 8mb L3 cache.
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So? They wouldn't do this unless it had a positive impact on performance. L3 is still a lot faster than RAM, they're reducing the L2 cache sizes because there's really no point in having a large L2 cache because larger cache=slower cache OR higher miss rate (either affects the performance negatively). It's a lot better, performance-wise, to keep the low levels of cache small so that they can operate efficiently, and add a new level of cache that acts as a high-speed "buffer" between L2 and RAM. Phenoms implemented L3 cache, along with some other advanced memory features, and while overall performance of those things turned out to be pretty poor their memory performance is more than twice as good as that of comparable Intel Quads according to several benchies I've seen.
 
If you compare desktop CPUs and Xeons, which have much more cache, theres never a particuarly huge performance gain anyway.
 
houseofbugs said:
If you didn't know they are enabling SLI on the X58 Intel chipset. I will be upgrading when this comes out.
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Exactly what I was just about to post. And to the person who said this isn't meant for gaming...you obviously have no clue what you are talking about. I will be building an i7 X58 with SLI this winter or spring.
 
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