Intel Hexacore Gulftown to be Core i7 980X EE

[Marcus Yam]

The mighty Gulftown will be one of the Core i7 boys.

Intel Hexacore Gulftown to be Core i7 980X EE : Read more

 

[El_Capitan]

Can't wait to pay $1,400 for this sucker... or maybe I'm the sucker?

 

[brett1042002]

But will it play...









Duck Hunt...

 

[Honis]

[citation][nom]El_Capitan[/nom]Can't wait to pay $1,400 for this sucker... or maybe I'm the sucker?[/citation]Get it on ebay, it's cheaper!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-core-i9-gulftown-westmere,9200.html?xtmc=intel_cpu_ebay&xtcr=1

 

[JofaMang]

Yours for only $1800!

 

[idisarmu]

MSRP: 2 souls. In order to buy this processor, you must convince someone you love to donate their soul.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Explains the expected high price tags. Unfortunately it means that slower speed and cheaper six cores will be unlikely for a while. Ideally I'd want a 2.66GHz 6 core that costs about 50% more than the i7 920 and clocks just as well.

 

[OwinC]

[citation][nom]Honis[/nom]Get it on ebay, it's cheaper!http://www.tomshardware.com/news/i [...] bay&xtcr=1[/citation]
To processor demanding.;p

 

[OwinC]

Quoited the wrong comment..
[citation][nom]brett1042002[/nom]But will it play...Duck Hunt...[/citation]
To processor demanding.;p

 

[Abrahm]

Looks like I'll have to hold out on a new computer until the hexcores drop to reasonable prices. Luckily my current computer still has pretty of horsepower left in her.

 

[xaira]

read somewhere that the first of these to be released will be clocked at 3.33ghz, cant wait for it to be released so i can buy amds answer for 1/4 the price

 

[xaira]

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/09-12-14/26a.jpg

 

[balister]

It will be priced $999 as all other EE processors have been priced at.

 

[balister]

It will be priced at $999 as all EE processors preceeding it have been priced.

 

[c_schwab]

The rumored price point is $1,000. I'm thinking more like $1,500.

 

[meat81]

[citation][nom]xaira[/nom]read somewhere that the first of these to be released will be clocked at 3.33ghz, cant wait for it to be released so i can buy amds answer for 1/4 the price[/citation]

And a 1/4 of the performance...

 

[gfg]

core i9 would be better.
How do you call the new cuadcore to 3.46 ghz? core i7 985 ?????
core i7 980X >> core i7 985

 

[gfg]

corei9 would be better.....
How do you call the new cuadcore to 3.46 ghz? core i7 985 ?????
corei7 980X>> corei7 985

 

[Guest]

raw power

 

[oneeighteen]

i think ill wait till the 8-12 cores come out

 

[brett1042002]

Yesssssss, finally I can zip files and encode videos in 17 seconds instead of 20! Those 3 seconds were killing me!!

Plus, the ladies always dig dudes with the EE CPUs... amirite?

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Are there any applications that could actually make use of 6 cores?

 

[Impulse Fire911]

wow i7 980X EE sounds so much cooler than i9. soon it will be "i7 99670 ZX ET Holy Sht Zomg RoflSauce. Extreme Verziun"

 

[imrul]

cool

 

[Guest]

Why do u need a 6 core?? it's for nasa machines or something i think, google won't be faster, games won't be faster, why we need such huge power on desktop computers???