when are the i5s being released

Elledan said:
Now I'm confused... I'd like to see an official chart from Intel at this point :p
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We should do like with the GT250...tell Intel that PR-FUd don't fly...otherwise we end up with FUD like from NVIDIA or Creative.
 
Zero82z said:
Did you look at the chart? Because that would answer your questions. Quad-core i5s do not have HT; only the dual-core models will. So all i5 CPUs will have 4 threads. Meanwhile, the Lynnfield i7s will be LGA1156 quad-cores with HT so they will have 8 threads.
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I think this is where we have problems.

Most people (myself very much included) have made the mental connection between i5 and LGA 1156. Yet Intel is making an i7 that will work in an 'i5' socket motherboard - which to me is pretty damn retarded.

So I will rephrase my question and ask again in hopes that I better understand this. What is the incentive for anyone to buy into the LGA 1366 platform once LGA 1156 is out on the market? Or perhaps; what does the LGA 1156 socket mean to me, a LGA 1366 owner?

So far it is not looking good (on paper). We lose Triple Channel memory but gain integrated PCI-Express, lower power consumption and could be cheaper as a whole.
 
triple channel memory, upgrades to gulftown.
Its a server socket offered to the public. Intel isn't doing anything contrary to that end goal.
 
rene mauricio said:
Most people (myself very much included) have made the mental connection between i5 and LGA 1156. Yet Intel is making an i7 that will work in an 'i5' socket motherboard - which to me is pretty damn retarded.
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Well, that's your own fault for getting caught up in all the speculation. "Most people" won't have any idea what an i5 is until Intel releases it to the market, and at that point they'll have a much easier time getting a grip on the naming scheme since they won't have any false preconceptions.

The fact is, with pre-release hardware, specs, naming schemes, branding, and pretty much everything is in a constant state of flux and can change at any time. It's been that way with every new hardware release, from people being confused at Intel's decision not to call Prescott "Pentium 5", to AMD releasing the A64 on S754 and S940 and then dropping both for S939, to the confusion over Intel's choice to drop the Pentium name when they brought out the Core 2 series of CPUs, to this current socket stuff. Eventually, everyone will get used to the way things are and there won't be any more silly threads like this one.
rene mauricio said:
So I will rephrase my question and ask again in hopes that I better understand this. What is the incentive for anyone to buy into the LGA 1366 platform once LGA 1156 is out on the market? Or perhaps; what does the LGA 1156 socket mean to me, a LGA 1366 owner?
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LGA1366 has triple-channel memory, QPI, more PCI-E lanes to provide better support for multi-GPU setups, and support for the upcoming 6-core Gulftown CPUs which will not be coming to LGA1156.
rene mauricio said:
So far it is not looking good (on paper). We lose Triple Channel memory but gain integrated PCI-Express, lower power consumption and could be cheaper as a whole.
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As I've already explained, integrated PCI-E is practically meaningless. There will be no performance gain or loss from that, since latency is not an issue. Lower power consumption is mostly a result of the platform being lower-end, and obviously the cost is as well.
 
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I'm excited about the i5-750.
For us gamers I would expect nearly identical performance (per clock) to the i7-920, yet at lower temperatures, and would not at all be surprised if they overclocked even higher.
 
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