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Zog Ecosse · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 17:26 Post subject: Intel does it again

Here it is, the new Intel core i7. Now on sale. The fastest processsor on the planet earth. AMD eat your heart out.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20081117comp_sm.htm#story

I won't even try to sumarise the contents of the link other than to say this is probably the most significant development sice the P4.

The down side at the moment is the cost. A quick flick through my usual suppliers with a mix and match to make the cheapest low end i7 system came up with a cpu, mobo and 3xDDR3 combo which cost £775 or arround $1200 Shocked

The up side is that the cost of the high end 2 core quads will probably drop in price making serious computing power avaliable us all bet it with yesterdays CPU.

Zog

StonedCabbage · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 17:36 Post subject:

wkd, 1 nil to Intel, though at that cost I think I might wait 12 months Shocked

for prices to nose dive a bit

Shimmy_TSGK · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 18:17 Post subject:

I can't wait for it to hit the laptop market Embarassed

[DOH] Mick · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 20:38 Post subject:

Zog Ecosse you get a nerd award

Nice one zog

[DOH] Mick · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 20:41 Post subject:

Xmeagol · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 21:18 Post subject:

Nah.

High end market CPU's are for money wasters.

I am eager to see AMD's shanghai though.

The Borg_TSGK · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 22:24 Post subject:

opti185 · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 22:28 Post subject: Re: Intel does it again

Xmeagol · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 22:36 Post subject:

yep

It doesn't beat the Nehalems, but it beats intel's 45nm's Q9000's

Osiris_TSGK · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 23:32 Post subject: Re: Intel does it again

Shimmy_TSGK · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 01:29 Post subject:

it's sad to See AMD eat $h!t over and over again... such a sad life...

it reminds me of this http://kotaku.com/gaming/only-in-france/xbox-crashes-french-ps3-launch-246475.php

Zog Ecosse · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 03:59 Post subject:

Not particularly wanting to be controversial but we as the consumers want the best for our bucks. At this particular moment ( and for the last year ) there has been no question as to who is supplying the goods.

AMD set the standard with inovation and price in the early days and produced a superior product. That is just not the case at the moment.
Tomorrow might be different.
Which ever side you take, I am only interested in a product that is affordable, dependable and meets my needs with a little bit of headroom.

I am sitting at a machine that was shit hot without being overly expensive less than a year ago. The same goes for the graphics card.
Its is more than capable of running dm2 seemlesly without cpu or gpu warming up much more than room temperature.

Yet, it still falls in a rattle of shit. Rolling Eyes

Xmeagol · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 17:24 Post subject:

I don't take sides betwen hardware companies

[DOH] Mick · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 17:51 Post subject:

AMD has given me many years of cheap computing and for that I will always have a soft spot for them.
Without AMD Intel would not have been so keen to give us cheap cpu's.

Xmeagol · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 21:46 Post subject:

I won't buy GPU's/CPU's over 200€

Over that price, it's complete shit to me (this goes to both AMD and intel, nvidia, etc.)

ø-Neµtrinos-ø · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 11:19 Post subject:

I waiting for the versus Intel/Amd, and i will upgrade my tower Very Happy

Merlyn · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 21:41 Post subject:

I'm happy with what I've got. amd 5200+.. plus i just built this pc a few months ago so i'm not going to upgrade for about a year.