Intel Core i7 Processor Models and Pricing

nehalem will be the reason for true enthusiasts to upgrade... their penis will get larger...or whatever...
 
I was all excited about Nahelem, until I realized that my E6600 is still kicking ass and taking names, and that CPU is NOT my bottleneck right now, not even close. I'll probably do video card for now, and wait 6 months for the Nahelem launch prices to fall.
 
Looks sick... this makes me seriously reconsider my plans to build a dirt-cheap LGA775 machine after these come out... they might be worth it after all! If only DDR3 prices would come down a little more, then we'd be set!
 
Interesting stuff.

Premium price for these bad boys is going to be with the DDR3 you have to buy plus the newer motherboards.

Like always, most likely will wait a year for the early adopters to get the bugs out and then jump on board.

Good info though.
 
i think im gonna have to hold out for the die shrink. 45nm quad in the meantime. that gives ddr3 some time to reach saner prices as well.
 
my Q6600 and P35 combo are still rocking, and will last me at least 2 years...

but ill probably upgrade when the updated nehalem is released....
 
I'm looking at DDR3 prices on NewEgg, and they don't seem that out of control to me. Maybe I am missing something? Obviously they are higher than DDR2 is now, but they aren't much higher than I remember DDR2 being in it's early stages.
 
arman01 said:
my Q6600 and P35 combo are still rocking, and will last me at least 2 years...

but ill probably upgrade when the updated nehalem is released....
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Have the P35 & Q6600 as well lol. I'm definitely making the move though. About that time for a new build anyways.
 
I'm hoping the 9550 will drop to low 200s somewhat quickly once Bloomfield is out.
 
I jumped at a $70 Antec P180 case already in anticipation of a Christmas time Core i7 build. I figure I will grab some of the components here and there at good prices to keep my overall investment down. It does leave some random parts sitting idle around the house though. I think my sig rig is ready to be replaced.
 
The Joy for 3D rendering. Here we come!!!

Edit: Meh, never mind. I thought it was 8cores.:(
 
Finnyman said:
Ugh... what a failure to my eyes.... no huge improvement...

Hopefully AMD will come back and rock them...
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In what sense? These things at the same clock speeds as previous Penryn quads are anywhere from 50-80% faster depending on the application. Sure in games it may not make a huge difference, but for me with all the HD video I work with it will be extremely awesome. The first time I ever heard of the Nehalem was back in 2003. Back then it was still in R&D, but they had some very interesting write ups that almost made the technology sound made up. When I got first official word about when we could expect to see these CPU's I got very excited. The i7's will be pretty darn cool and I expect it to lead the market despite what AMD comes out with.
 
trudude said:
In what sense? These things at the same clock speeds as previous Penryn quads are anywhere from 50-80% faster depending on the application. Sure in games it may not make a huge difference, but for me with all the HD video I work with it will be extremely awesome. The first time I ever heard of the Nehalem was back in 2003. Back then it was still in R&D, but they had some very interesting write ups that almost made the technology sound made up. When I got first official word about when we could expect to see these CPU's I got very excited. The i7's will be pretty darn cool and I expect it to lead the market despite what AMD comes out with.
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exatcly. its also the first true quad core cpu
 
jonneymendoza said:
exatcly. its also the first true quad core cpu
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Well, when we have "fake" (If it has 4 cores it's a quad-core to me, period!) quad-cores slapping "native" quad-cores around, that is just semantics ;)

Preformance is king and i7 brings a lot of power to the table...and that is what matters.
 
trudude said:
In what sense? These things at the same clock speeds as previous Penryn quads are anywhere from 50-80% faster depending on the application.
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Really? I thought they were 50-80% faster in well-multithreaded applications only, with not much improvement for single-threaded loads. There are certainly workloads that Core i7 will be much better for, but for the average consumer who's not constantly rendering or encoding, there's not going to be a significant improvement.
 
Mithent said:
Really? I thought they were 50-80% faster in well-multithreaded applications only, with not much improvement for single-threaded loads. There are certainly workloads that Core i7 will be much better for, but for the average consumer who's not constantly rendering or encoding, there's not going to be a significant improvement.
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yah it was more like 20%-50% in media encoding...other stuff...who cares anyway? :p
 
Can someone explain to me why there's going to be two sockets for i7? I can see why they'd do it for servers and desktop use, but why have two sockets for 'hardcore' and 'mainstream'? Is there going to be a third socket for server motherboards?

My worry is that the initial socket will become obsolete very quickly.
 
Mithent said:
Really? I thought they were 50-80% faster in well-multithreaded applications only, with not much improvement for single-threaded loads. There are certainly workloads that Core i7 will be much better for, but for the average consumer who's not constantly rendering or encoding, there's not going to be a significant improvement.
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I went back and re-read what I posted and I think you and I are in agreement unless I am just going crazy.
 
grandmaster said:
Can someone explain to me why there's going to be two sockets for i7? I can see why they'd do it for servers and desktop use, but why have two sockets for 'hardcore' and 'mainstream'? Is there going to be a third socket for server motherboards?

My worry is that the initial socket will become obsolete very quickly.
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As far as I know the Bloomfield and Tylersburg chips will use the LGA1366 socket. There is just one socket type for both server and mainstream/hardcore users. Later on I would suspect that there may be a new socket introduced for servers, but there is nothing at this time to indicate that there might be some big switch soon. I think you will be able to rest easy.
 
mikemodano9c said:
yah it was more like 20%-50% in media encoding...other stuff...who cares anyway? :p
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The honest truth as far as performance goes will be determined after we have actual chips in our hands. I will be an early adopter this time around so I will try my best to relay information to you guys. :D
 
grandmaster said:
Can someone explain to me why there's going to be two sockets for i7? I can see why they'd do it for servers and desktop use, but why have two sockets for 'hardcore' and 'mainstream'? Is there going to be a third socket for server motherboards?
My worry is that the initial socket will become obsolete very quickly.
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s604->s1567 (>2 socket)
s771->s1366 (1-2 socket servers)-----\
s775->s1366 (1-2 socket desktops)--/ these are being combined
s775->s1160 (1 socket onboard GPU desktop)

number of sockets is NOT going up. desktops are being split, 1-2 socket servers are being combined.
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
has there been any definite word that the production cpu's (excepting extreme editions) will absolutely have the fsb and multipliers locked? i guess there could possibly be a way for motherboards to manipulate fsb speeds, but is intel pretty much out of overclocking except for the very high end?
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I was wondering the same thing. Will overclocking be limited to the EE only?
 
grandmaster said:
Can someone explain to me why there's going to be two sockets for i7? I can see why they'd do it for servers and desktop use, but why have two sockets for 'hardcore' and 'mainstream'? Is there going to be a third socket for server motherboards?

My worry is that the initial socket will become obsolete very quickly.
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It's all about market segmentation - you have a "high-end" socket so you can charge more for those chips.
 
So when are the price cuts for Wolfdales coming? My AMD pc died, so the sooner the price cuts, the sooner I can start using my pc.
 
I was hoping that the power consumption would be better than the old quads like the Q6600 which consumes 95w. Instead, the new CPU's appear to be less energy efficient at 130w, a significant increase. And, for some reason, all have the same high TDP of 130w, even the low end 2.66GHz version (anyone know why?). So these new CPU's run hotter and, as a result, will be more noisy... Perhaps this information isn't completely accurate. But if this is all true, it's a bit disappointing for me, but I suppose I'm a minority here as most people care more about the CPU power than noise and heat...
 
If it wasn't for how sexy triple channeled ddr3 looks I'd see no reason to get bloom n doom over cheaper yorkdales. At least for anything I do on a desktop.
 
I wish we could get a firm release date from intel. At least then I could have a date to plan my build around. So I think we still only have rumored dates. Mid oct to end of oct to beginning of Nov. Anyone hear anything new?
 
not bad still doesn't seem like a big reason to upgrade from a q6600 though.
 
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