Pixel Arena Forums

Trip_Wire · by **Trip_Wire** on Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:05 pm

Intel's launching Core i7 in November. What's leaked:

The CPU price is fine, the platform isn't. X58 boards supposedly start at $250-300 and 6GB of DDR3 isn't cheap either.

BrassMonkey · by **BrassMonkey** on Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:33 pm

The 920 is going to be the new Q6600. Everyone will run it at 3.8GHz on air.

ctrl_alt_defeat · by **ctrl_alt_defeat** on Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:47 pm

For gaming, my E8400 isn't going anywhere. Games barely use two cores, let alone eight threads.

Trip_Wire · by **Trip_Wire** on Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:20 am

ctrl_alt_defeat wrote:Games barely use two cores

For now. But yeah, if you're on a C2D at 3.6+ there's nothing in i7 for you this year.

Vectrex_Kid · by **Vectrex_Kid** on Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:40 pm

Compiling at work would love it though. Eight threads for make -j8.

halfpint · by **halfpint** on Fri Oct 10, 2008 2:15 am

What's AMD doing? Anything to compete?

Trip_Wire · by **Trip_Wire** on Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:53 am

45nm Phenom II, supposedly early next year. Until then the Phenom 9950 is fine and cheap, but no competition at the top.

BrassMonkey · by **BrassMonkey** on Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:58 pm

Reviews should come out early November. I'll spend my lunch breaks refreshing AnandTech.

Core i7 / Nehalem -- November launch, X58 and DDR3 prices