Report: New Intel Desktop Chips Coming Soon

[victomofreality]

not bad, an i7 950 for $300 but I'd still rather get the AMD x6 for the same price point.

 

[cobot]

[citation][nom]atdhe[/nom]Actually, his statement is pretty accurate JamesSneed, and I would go even further to say that you don't need more than an i5 750, or 760 now for that matter. You don't need an hexacore CPU unless you are some kind of a freak with 5 OS running simultaneously and with 30 tabs in your browser and tons of other things...[/citation]


I think he was more thinking of things like rendering, encoding etc. and not regular office work...

 

[atdhe]

[citation][nom]cobot[/nom]I think he was more thinking of things like rendering, encoding etc. and not regular office work...[/citation]

Yeah but even that won't make that much of a difference, just a couple of percent. My point is, if you want to buy a 6 core CPU, wait 2-3 years before most major tools become cleverly multi-threaded.

Buying one today just is a waste of money because at that time, there will be a better 6 core cpu, and until then, a quad-core is all that you need.

 

[killerclick]

AMD is done for. They should just close up shop instead of confusing the market with their pathetic presence.

 

[cjl]

[citation][nom]atdhe[/nom]Yeah but even that won't make that much of a difference, just a couple of percent. My point is, if you want to buy a 6 core CPU, wait 2-3 years before most major tools become cleverly multi-threaded. Buying one today just is a waste of money because at that time, there will be a better 6 core cpu, and until then, a quad-core is all that you need.[/citation]
It makes a huge difference, actually. Rendering and encoding on a 6 core is up to 50% faster in many cases than on an otherwise identical (clocks, architecture, etc) quad.

 

[liquidchild]

killerclick...your fanboism will raise the price of your already overpriced glass. AMD is a intel buyers best friend.

 

[wawa sxm]

[citation][nom]rohitbaran[/nom]The prices are being cut, but still not that fast. The dominance of Intel is causing this. Real bad.[/citation]

i think its more the fast pace of intel and no one is keeping up (amd seems to have given up directly battling intel).....i wonder how long they will be able to keep up with this tic toc strategy

 

[warmon6]

[citation][nom]atdhe[/nom]Yeah but even that won't make that much of a difference, just a couple of percent. My point is, if you want to buy a 6 core CPU, wait 2-3 years before most major tools become cleverly multi-threaded. Buying one today just is a waste of money because at that time, there will be a better 6 core cpu, and until then, a quad-core is all that you need.[/citation]

As cjl said. depending on what you do, You can see a difference.

 

[paigeinfull]

[citation][nom]atdhe[/nom]Yeah but even that won't make that much of a difference, just a couple of percent. My point is, if you want to buy a 6 core CPU, wait 2-3 years before most major tools become cleverly multi-threaded. Buying one today just is a waste of money because at that time, there will be a better 6 core cpu, and until then, a quad-core is all that you need.[/citation]
I'm sorry but I don't agree with that. I do encoding and I can tell you that more cores + an ssd with high enough sequential write speed = big boost in speed. Ssd's typically allow you to fully utilize your cpu for applications that require a bit of drive throughput as well. So if I were to upgrade to a 970 I could expect %33 faster performance

 

[roncpem]

My i 920 is currently at 3.4. I'll wait for an Intel six core at $300.00 before I buy again.

 

[bison88]

Core i7-950 will fall from $562 down to $294.

As Duke Nukem would say, "**** YEAH!"

 

[ares1214]

if none of the quad cores are 32nm, this is a failiure.i dont see why intel can use 32 nm with their cheapest chip, but nothing else besides their most expensive chip. id love the 760 if it was 32nm, that would be amazing, but i dont think so. intel needs to get on with that, they are just gonna make us wait till 2011 to release some more 1000$ cpus on new sockets. great.

 

[Guest]

$885 6 core, who is going to buy that? If you can spend $885 you can probably spend the $999 for the extreme edition, and why wouldnt you?

But then with AMD not putting out high performing 6 cores, there is no one to force Intel to compete.

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

omg hexacore with ht ... friggen rediculous. My Xeon quad core still suites me fine though but damn 6 cores 12 threads.

 

[tharkis842]

Nice to see some more options hit shelves and a few price drops.

 

[ares1214]

[citation][nom]tharkis842[/nom]Nice to see some more options hit shelves and a few price drops.[/citation]

well its hard for the prices to go up much 😛

 

[mindspring]

No new Atoms in the works?

 

[AlericB]

Shouldn't the i5-870S be i7-870S? The 8xx processors for LGA 1156 are all i7. The highest number on the i5 is the quad core i5-750. Also, $350 seems a bit high for an i5, and right in the lower i7 territory.

 

[AlericB]

Shouldn't the i5-870S be i7-870S? The 8xx processors for LGA 1156 are all i7. The highest number on the i5 is the quad core i5-750. Also, $350 seems a bit high for an i5, and right in the lower i7 territory.

 

[Tamz_msc]

I am doubtful about the 970's cost.Such pricing is not generally associated with Intel(a 562$ price - the current price of the 950 - is more believable).But the i7 950 at 294$ means that the price of the 930 will also drop.(Hopefully)

 

[dEAne]

6 Core is still not practical coz most application were not ready for that - quad core is good buy.