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Intel Core i5 2.66GHz gets benched

mjones1

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As it was expected, the CPU is slower than Core i7 920 but it's quite enough for the 3.2GHz clocked Phenom II X4 955, at least in Cinebench 10. The CPU score in 3DMark Vantage hovers around 13700. These are still the first benchmark results and we will hold our judgment until we see a full review once these CPUs hit the market shelves. Most of people already call them Core i5 but the name has never been confirmed.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/13848/1/
 
whats that extra "mini RAM slot" next to the 4 normal ones? Cant wait for these to come out, hopefully be a nice mid range CPU thats still quite affordable :)
 
Hmmm, interesting. If these are reasonably priced, think they'll be a good upgrade for a lot of Core 2 users here.
 
Still confusing as to why it's there though, 1 slot isn't much good if it's trying to be solid state storage.
 
Edit - No it won't. But it doesn't need refreshed that's all I know. :p

Edit2 - So ECC? :eek:
 
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This mystery slot could be for debugging the board. I saw some photos of an Asus or Gigabyte board a few months ago and it had something similar.
 
look at that board - its a mess, so the nvram slot might be on there for development reasons and will be canned long before the board hits retail.
Still canne believe they are going for 2 different sockets :/
 
Rather than being the same as i7 chips? Would be a lot easier if they were the same, but maybe some technical reasoning being it. I think socket 775 is the best Ive ever used, such a massive range of CPU's compatible with it! So easy to upgrade
 
ANd don't forget the i5 boards get replaced in 7 months time so very limited upgrade potential if you get one on launch :confused:
 
If they are being replaced so soon it seems pretty pointless in buying one. These will be for box shifters like Dell, Asus and Acer rather than people building their own pcs.
 
Ducky Spud said:
Why they getting replaced? and what by?
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Socket LGA 1156 (I5) will get replaced with socked LGA 1156B(APU support) in mid 2010. The first batch of I5 will have a VERY short lifespan, and next to no upgrade path.

All the newer i5 cpu's coming out after the first batch have integrated graphics controllers and need the revision B version of the i5 board to work.

Hence very limited upgrade potential.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12341&Itemid=1

Okay, it's Fudzilla which has started this rumour but on Intel's roadmap, the next i5 cpus for launch in 2010 do indeed have integrated graphics controllers so there may well be some truth in this.

Enough to put me off buying an i5 board until I knew for sure.

And remember, Intel have done this trick several times in the past where you needed new boards for the cpu even though the cpu was pin compatible.
 
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Thanks for explaining, but that just seems a stupid move by Intel! Why not just release them when theyre ready rather than a pretty much useless bunch of them for the first months :confused:
 
Ducky Spud said:
Thanks for explaining, but that just seems a stupid move by Intel! Why not just release them when theyre ready rather than a pretty much useless bunch of them for the first months :confused:
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As already said for the box shifter market - Dell, HP etc.

These are meant to be the mainstream end of the market where people don't overclock and are very unlikely to ever replace the cpu in the board anyway.

Take the 16 work computers we have. I have never upgraded any of the cpu's in them, just replaced the box when it got too slow (celerons)

They are done to a price and they will sell loads of them whatever. Not so good for the enthuasiast/upgrader that you get on these forums. ALso note that i5 will be only platform to have dual core processors still made for it.

i7 is the only safe bet atm
 
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How is integrated graphics controllers any different from on-board gpu's on a motherboard that is used by the box shifter market?

More powerful? :confused:

Edit - for mini-itx boards I see the purpose
 
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