Nehalem new news

[newpick]

AnandTech: The Dark Knight: Intel's Core i7
Intel's Core i7: Blazing Fast, But Crippled O/C : Eight Virtual Cores Through Hyper-Threading - Tom's Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ming,2061.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...e-i7,2063.html

check out these in-depth reviews that came out together, include pricing, benchmarks, and efficiency
must check this out:

Nehalem Overclocking @ XS - XtremeSystems Forums

Nehalem Overclocking @ XS - XtremeSystems Forums

[Skold]

Wow no overclocking except for the Extreme versions... so lame.

[newpick]

this shows the most to me, others show slight to great lead, this however is a steep curve

[Fleiva]

Not recommended for gamers unless you have true GPU power, otherwise you would be bottlenecking the i7, I wouldn't buy an i7 unless I had a 4780x2 at least.

On non GPU dependant activities such as adobe arsenal and daily common activities i7 means awesomeness tho.

Interesting also how the 280 GTX in sli is now less CPU bound with the i7, that setup might be quite interesting for some price/performance value, cause you actually gain massive FPS's there.

Dunno how MMORPGs work sincerely, wish I could find reviews like these in massive pvp enviroments to help me decide. Anyways, the prices are sweet, just by getting an i7 920 and spending a bit more on the GPU setup, we can see massive improvements. x58 is still expensive tho, si is DDR3 :< lets pray for affordable prices these christmas ^^

I'll wait for more reviews, would love to see the differences between a Q9550-4870x2 and a 920/940 on the same card.

[Diablo]

Originally Posted by Skold

Wow no overclocking except for the Extreme versions... so lame.

Not true, just not like you are used to. But clock for clock these chips smoke anything we've seen before. All the benchs I have seen it seems Intel has gotten rid of the CPU bottleneck until new graphics cards come out at any rate.

[Salain]

wow, fast. Hope AMD starts to catch up...I really doubt intel would've pulled this if they weren't confident that their stock chips could tie or beat AMD's OCed versions.

Guess I'll be updating the mobo/cpu/ram in 18 months or so.

[plasma06]

wow such a increase over the intel QX the new cpu has some power behind it, cant wait too see price but with the $ the way it is at the moment it wont be nice

[Zethos]

wow :O

Now I just hope for decent prices on them :P

[newpick]

edit for new toms and a special suprise for overclockers

[Howling]

5.4GHz on the 965i o.O

[Diablo]

Originally Posted by Salain

wow, fast. Hope AMD starts to catch up...I really doubt intel would've pulled this if they weren't confident that their stock chips could tie or beat AMD's OCed versions.

Guess I'll be updating the mobo/cpu/ram in 18 months or so.

Catch up? They are still behind the core 2s and have fallen even farther back.

[newpick]

Originally Posted by Howling

5.4GHz on the 965i o.O

the only thing i want to know is if that in his pic was a vacuum or some frozen gas cooler

[Diablo]

Don't know but Tom's has a stable 920 stock 2.66 at 3.8ghz on high end air.

[Salain]

Originally Posted by Diablo

Catch up? They are still behind the core 2s and have fallen even farther back.

"begin to catch up". That was my point, if it continues like this we're going to end up with a one chip market. Less competition, worse for consumers.

I certainly hope they at least start to move the second or third derivatives toward the positive or that is where we'll end up.

[Diablo]

I don't disagree but unless Intel begins to rest on their laurels or has some major screw up AMD will need to pull out of its semiconductor a$$ one hell of a cheap CPU.