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The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:16 pm
by Noobs_Slayer
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.
http://www.techspot.com/news/38195-inte ... ition.html
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:20 pm
by Kraq
Hexa-core?
*faints*
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:27 pm
by poehalcho
no octocore
?
wait...why is it still an i7 O_o?
shouldn't it be...I dunno... i9???
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:46 pm
by Noobs_Slayer
I jizzed in my pants instantly after saw this
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:56 pm
by Sharp324
Yay...not.
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:49 pm
by Ilove2quack
1k$ plox.
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:53 am
by Love
it won't bring anything to gaming so is pretty much irrelevant, good day =p.
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:06 am
by EvGa
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...
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:56 am
by BlackFox898
it's not "new i7 processor", it's new i9 processor.
and yes it's gonna be 1k for sure.
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 5:53 am
by Skyve
Quad sound so much cooler than "Hexa"
Then again would of been funny if Quad Core woulda been called Tetra Core
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:18 pm
by chrisorg
Kraq wrote:Hexa-core?
*faints*
Re: The new intel i7 procesor
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:58 pm
by Xyzzzy
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.