Intel i7 Preview by Gamespot

http://www.gamespot.com/hardware/bl...om_act=convert&om_clk=picks&tag=picks;title;1

very impressive results. the low down is that the low end, $300, 2.66 i7 can trounce two 3.2Ghz quad cores on a skull trail motherboard.

 

Wow, this will probably **** off the few who just blew the money they just saved on a Skulltrail setup.

 

Now the question is...how much will c2d quads drop when i7 hits the markets in a couple weeks?

 

im guessing under $200, if that low end model is $300 its has to be well under $200 for it to be a good purchase for some people.

 

Intel is getting pretty annoying with their new **** putting amd further behind as they guzzle more power.

 

Are those processor desktop or mobile?

 

those would be desktop, i dont think the mobile ones will be showing up until atleast the summer.

 

Even if it's desktop, if Clevo can put this in their 9662, it would be one crazy fast laptop.

 

One thing to notice; they didnt bench the traditional way. Lost Planet @ WXGA? Encoding while gaming at WXGA? Notice the I7-920 beat the I7-965...

This seems a bit more reasonable in my opinion. Credit goes to JR, the original post can be found here. Also, I posted the Greek link because the translated link errored for me.

Edit - Calpella ( mobile version of nehalem ) is slated to release Q3 '09 I believe.

 

Wow, I am way impressed with the performance for the price they offer, I cannot say anything else, they are just insane, I hope the price of the current Intel Core 2 Quads drop to the price where the Intel Core 2 Duos are right now and the Duos drop even more too, so that I could upgrade my Sager NP9262 to a Q9650, or maybe wait and save up for if Clevo decides to do a Motherboard Refresh to allow Core i7 processors in the Sager NP9262, then I would be dancing all over the place.

 

it is done at those resolutions so the processor has more of a bearing than if it was a high res, then it would be highly dependent on the GPU and the test would be useless.

 

Unless of course, you set it up in away that the CPU would be the bottleneck

Plus why didnt they do other benchmarks? New socket and cpus get 4 benchmarks? Wheres the usual stuff? The Hi-Def encoding ( not WMP9 thank you... ), the extracting/archiving, the usual encoding/rendering/gaming we see? Thats whats getting me...

 

Frankly though, I'm not too excited about this CPU. It's not as if I could max out the T9300 under normal use in the first place. Even if I play games(which I rarely do), it's the GPU that's the factor, not the cpu.

And why don't they just run wPrime?

 

Very impressive!cant wait to build my desktop

 

time to replace my desktop

 

IF? They better update the 9262 w/ this processor...if they don't i'll be pretty pissed. But i'm holding on to hope; I think it's only a matter of time before they do a refresh. Hopefully by August next yr.

 

core i7 has integrated memopry controllers, so it would be impossible, core i7 and pm965/45 don't fit 'architecturally'.

 

they are afterall 'game'spot . look elsewhere for proper reviews.

 

Lol, that has to be one of the weakest reviews I've ever seen. 1024x768 resolution? Really?

They do like 3 benchmarks.

For a better review, check out Techgage: http://techgage.com/article/intel_core_i7_performance_preview/

 

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