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The new intel i7 procesor

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Intel officially launched today its first hexa-core desktop processor, the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition. As previously reported, the codenamed Gulftown chip features six 32nm cores clocked at 3.33GHz, reaching a maximum Turbo Boost clock speed of 3.6GHz for single-threaded operations, it has a massive 12MB L3 cache, and is capable of running 12 threads simultaneously with Intel's Hyper-threading technology.

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Hexa-core?
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no octocore :soosad: ?
wait...why is it still an i7 O_o?
shouldn't it be...I dunno... i9???
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I jizzed in my pants instantly after saw this :sohappy:
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Yay...not.
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1k$ plox. :banghead:
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it won't bring anything to gaming so is pretty much irrelevant, good day =p.
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Time for software to catch up...

Programming for 4-8 threads is hard enough... 12 :(

Specialty apps written to run on this would FLY though...
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it's not "new i7 processor", it's new i9 processor.

and yes it's gonna be 1k for sure.
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Quad sound so much cooler than "Hexa" :( Then again would of been funny if Quad Core woulda been called Tetra Core :P
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Kraq wrote:Hexa-core?
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/07/newe ... investiga/

Oops. Over the weekend, it seems as if 300 or so unlucky individuals were shipped a counterfeit processor from the normally reliable warehouses at NewEgg, and Hard|OCP has the images (and video) to prove it.
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