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Core 9000 series

pandem0nium said:
There are "I7"s that are as low as 2 cores 4 threads.

Intel can say an I7 is whatever they want and change it at any time. They'll charge whatever they think people will pay.
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Indeed. You have said it your self. hyperthreading enabled. Thats what makes an i7. two threads per core. Always has been. It's what makes it different from it's i5 sister. All they have done is rebranded it an I9 and charged $100 more for it. Madness.
 
Solder would be a good step forward. In fact. scratch that. Solder is a NECESSARY step forward for chips costing anything north of £200. And or chips intended to be overclockable.
A soldered I7 8C/16T ~5Ghz boost/overclockability at £350 would actually seriously tempt me and provide solid competition to AMD. Alas Intel have ruined that by rebranding it an I9 and slapping another £100 on the cost. Zen 2 here we come.
 
I am just stating always speculation with no concrete evidence. On here it's very often the way... Some speculation people latch onto and let it influence purchasing decisions .......

When people know the correct info then discuss.
 
The problem is that if discussions only happened once everything was confirmed, we'd have nothing to discuss for 10 months of each year. Another issue the fact that so many "tech news" websites are just clickbaiting rumour mills, it's inevitable that both valid and nonsense information is out there and it's kinda up to enthusiasts to work out what's true and what isn't because most tech journalists won't or can't do it.
 
beany_bot said:
Can anyone state how trustworthy or untrustworthy these sources are? After all, it's not exactly a press release from Intel.
I would just be amazed if Intel would remove hyperthreading from its (extremely premium) i7 CPUs in the face of increased competition from AMD. it makes no sense.
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Wccftech, Videocardz, Guru3D and others can be trustworthy sources but sometimes they all got it wrong from direct sources gave them mislead information.

Someone found i7-9700K on Sisoftware Sandra database confirmed it has 8 cores and 8 threads.

https://wccftech.com/intel-ditching-hyper-threading-with-new-core-i7-9700k-coffee-lake/
https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-i7-9700k-with-8-cores-and-no-hyper-threading-spotted
http://ranker.sisoftware.net/show_d...c6f7d1b885a3cbf6d0a895b3d6b38ebe98ebd6ee&l=en
 
IS this basically intel saying they cannot make proper silicon cope with the heat and power demands of a SMT core at the really high clock speeds they now have to eek out of a crap process tweaked to within an inch of its life?

Just the thought of doing this a couple of years back would have had you laughed out of the office at Intel.
 
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