I HATE INTELS NAMING SCHEMES.

[werxen]

i3, i5, i7...

friggin 1 quad core, 1 quad core + HT, 1 dual core, 2 different sockets yet they can only come up with i3, i5, and i7?!?!??!

STUPID INTEL. I hate having to keep up with numbers and HT and socket types. They really should have completely renamed name with different sockets - not combined them and changed the numbers. Confusing as all hell... I hope they lose some business due to this dumbass marketing strategy.

 

[theholylancer]

You sir are mentally ill.

The only reason AMD's QC's are that cheap is because they have the performance to match the price point.

and really, if you can say that these are on the same level

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103674 (AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition, $165)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115220 (Intel i5-650, $194)

there will be blood

if you say the I7-920 = the PII X4 965 BE, there will be blood

 

[theholylancer]

Um who in their damn mind needs tri/quad SLI/CF? it only takes a ATI HD5970 to play Crysis maxed at 2560x1600 and thats just 2 GPUs. Hell no one even plays at that res that often. In fact most people play arounf 1680x1050/1600x900 area and even a large chunk still play at 1280x1024.

TBH if you get a i7 LGA 1366 for only gaming you deserve to be whacked in the back of the head. For high res gaming its great but the CPUs true potential is outside of gaming where it eats baby AMD CPUs ALIVE!!!!!

Well, the sins of a early adaptor, i only got the i7 for gaming and some virtual machining (i'm not a server provider so it's for home work segeration from games without dual boot), but the choices were I7-1366, C2Q, or PII X4 (which were not as cheap as they are today)