Core i5 Cranks up to 3.6 GHz?

[halcyon]

Typically when I upgrade to a new CPU I want a shiny new Asus mobo to go with it. ...i5 is not an upgrade though, unless you're using an AMD setup. Where's my dual socket 1366 mobo Asus? That's the UPGRADE I want to hear about.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]solymnar[/nom]The part of this that just floors me...is that intel, in the footsteps of AMD, keeps putting more and more (for good reason) motherboard function onto the processor. This effectively reduces the items on the motherboard...and their motherboards have by far the crappiest on board graphics currently. Yet they still charge outrageous prices for them and get away with it. The price premium they put on their boards and mb chips is just silly to me personally.[/citation]


What enthusiast buys an Intel motherboard anyways, with Asus and Gigabyte available. As such, who cares what Intel charges for their boards?

 

[ymbaja]

"What enthusiast buys an Intel motherboard anyways, with Asus and Gigabyte available. As such, who cares what Intel charges for their boards?"

I think he meant Intel based MB (not Intel brand)

 

[Shadow703793]

Imo, Intel made a HUGE mistake putting out 2 different sockets. Hopefully there will be "cheaper" i7 releasing soon too.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]ymbaja[/nom]"What enthusiast buys an Intel motherboard anyways, with Asus and Gigabyte available. As such, who cares what Intel charges for their boards?"I think he meant Intel based MB (not Intel brand)[/citation]

LOL, I meant Intel brand. Way overpriced motherboards given the feature-set of the their competition. Having great CPUs seems to somehow have made them lackluster in the enthusiast motherboard market, IMO.

 

[chunkymonster]

[citation][nom]Tindytim[/nom]Wow, it's obvious you have no idea what you're talking about. "Skt775" or LGA775 was used on the Pentium 4's. It's been around for over half a decade. If you bought a new Desktop in the last 4 years with an intel processor, it was LGA775.Average Joe doesn't use enough multi-threaded software for it to be important. These Core i5's are just there to populate the new Core i series with low end and mid ranged components.[/citation]

Uh, actually I do know what I'm talking about but it's obvious you don't know your history. The "tick-tock" strategy was announced AFTER the initial release of Skt775. Actually, Skt775 is probably the longest lived Intel socket line since Skt370.

And, the i5 line-up as a whole is targeted at the low/mid range, which is the "average joe". So, to say that the average joe doesn't need hyperthreading makes no sense given that it's included in the 2 upper end i5's. If Intel wants to charge a price premium for hyperthreading, why even bother including it in the i5 line altogether, why not just keep it as a value added feature of the i7's?

 

[ricin]

Surprised? Celeron D 360 CPUs shipped at 3.46GHz. These CPUs were awesome for tight single-core processing. Nothing to see here... move along.

 

[rambo117]

still, intel has yet to have made some i7 or i5 dual cores....
at least AMD gives use its triple core phenom IIs.

 

[rooseveltdon]

The way i see it the i5 will be great but it won't blow the phenom 2 line out of the water, the phenom 2 line smokes the core 2 duo line for the price of a core 2 duo dual core i can get an amd tri core with six mb of cache clocked anywhere from 2.6 to 2.8 with a lot of room for over clocking and the gap gets wider in the quad core line you can easily get 3.0-3.2 (stock speed) phenom 2 quads for less than $250 and that's without factoring in overclocking which the phenom 2 line does very well, add the fact that these chips are all backward compatible with am2/am2+ motherboards and ddr 2 ram and you have a winner, the i5 in my opinion is a good idea because it will bring nehalem technology to the masses however just like the i7 it will require people to switch mobo and ram and at the end of the day if one was to switch he or she might as well go with the cheapest i7 instead of going with an i5 that would cost close to the same....whereas such buyer would have a buffet of choices in the phenom 2 line all for less than $250 and without having to switch mobo or ram thus having more money for the gpu which is more important when it comes to gaming....i would not mind going with the i5 if the prices were a little more competitive but right now i see no reason for that and unless one is determined to have the latest and the flashiest i don't really see why other customers would want to do it either. As a matter of fact i suspect many gamers are just waiting for the i5 to drop so the prices of the core 2 quads and duos will go down and they can get 'em lol.

 

[halcyon]

I'm glad there's folks that will keep purchasing AMD and keep them alive so that Intel has some semblance of competition (even if its not really competition).

 

[peanutsrevenge]

This just highlights the great path AMD have taken with backwards compatability with their older CPUs and boards.

Unfortunately, this can't continue for too long due to legacy components slowing things down, but they've shown how long it can go for, just hope Intel pay attention to their competitiors again.