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Core i5

i5 will be for OEM's more than anything. Cheaper than i7, yet gives good enough performance for even the more than average joe :P

I'm more than happy with my i7, and upgradebility should not be a problem, so imho one should jump from 775 to i7, unless s/he is really budget constrained...
 
pastymuncher said:
How come only 6 month's? That's a ridiculously short life. Not that i am planning on upgrading anytime soon anyway.
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the processor will last longer, but it will be replaced in 6 months. eg you will need a new mobo as socket won't be supported
 
Personally im not interested in i5, I dont think it will give me much of a boost over my current rig, my next upgrade will be to i7, but im forcing myself to wait for 6core CPUs and SATA 3 with the next gen of SSDs.

Hawker
 
hawker1986 said:
Personally im not interested in i5, I dont think it will give me much of a boost over my current rig, my next upgrade will be to i7, but im forcing myself to wait for 6core CPUs and SATA 3 with the next gen of SSDs.

Hawker
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In less than a year, your wishes will be fulfilled :P :P

I'm also waiting for next summer, than I may buy an SSD...
 
Dual Channel DDR3 instead of Triple Channel
Also Processors/BIOS not supposed to be overclocker/enthusiast friendly.
Will get a version with built in IGP as well.

Think of Core i5 as a regular Core2 Quad Processor and Core i7 as the Extreme Version of the Processor.

People that just want a machine that works can buy a Core i5, enthusiats / tweakers etc buy the i7 and can tweak and modify, but pay the premium.

I would imagine very few people on a forum called overclockers will buy i5 as going to be enthusiasts. People who buy Dell/HP etc for the office will snap them up by the truckful.
 
mdjmcnally said:
Dual Channel DDR3 instead of Triple Channel
Also Processors/BIOS not supposed to be overclocker/enthusiast friendly.
Will get a version with built in IGP as well.

Think of Core i5 as a regular Core2 Quad Processor and Core i7 as the Extreme Version of the Processor.

People that just want a machine that works can buy a Core i5, enthusiats / tweakers etc buy the i7 and can tweak and modify, but pay the premium.

I would imagine very few people on a forum called overclockers will buy i5 as going to be enthusiasts. People who buy Dell/HP etc for the office will snap them up by the truckful.
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This. i5 cuts out features from i7 that it doesn't need to make for cheaper OEM systems. Personally, I would rather see the money invested into making i7 cheaper, if only to move away from dual cores. Not that dual core is bad, but by taking them out, developers will start to code to take advantage of more threads. For example, there are very few programs that can only use 1 core, simply because almost everyone has a dual core. The sooner developers produce multi-threaded applications the better.

Although saying that, I can't wait to see how high those i5 duals clock.
 
Core i5 will be a good platform to succeed Socket 775, but imo the prices of Core i7s 920s/DDR3s is nicely priced atm, good mobos still £150+ sadly but otherwise for the overclockers/gamers core i7 just the better choice atm and u dont have to wait till this fall to upgrade :)
 
Actually... It's supposedly gonna have MORE features than i7.
It's got SATA III support, and a new tech called ONFI (Open NAND Flash Interface) which is basically on-motherboard flash memory that'll boost performance, I guess a few more technologies that'll be out at the time too.
 
phytal said:
Is it worth it to wait for the new releases.......cause I'm planning in buying an i7 gaming rig this summer...
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No. The i5 is a deadish end platform with the first 6 months of motherboards.

Later i5 chips are going to be dual core as well has having integrated gpu on board.

They are designed for the box shifter marker, not enthuasiasts. In saying that I have just read that i720 and i740 are being dropped since the i5 performance is too close to the i7 cpus so expect future i7 cpus to cost an arm and a leg. EDIT: Also rumours that the sex core will only be available in extreme versions so make that £1000

6 cores will never come to i5, just i7 only.

Which will not doubt mean the first sexcore cpus will be £1000+
 
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phytal said:
Is it worth it to wait for the new releases.......cause I'm planning in buying an i7 gaming rig this summer...
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There's always going to be new technology coming out just round the corner, if you wait you'll end up never buying a PC. :)
Socket 1366 is going to be what's used with Westmere (the 32nm version of Nehalem, that is, Westmere is Nehalem as Penryn was to Core) so assuming the motherboard you get can support 6 core CPUs (via BIOS upgrade, etc.) then you'll be alright.

This Core i5 stuff I don't understand, but I do see how it'll make money. Also something that hasn't been mentioned is Core i5 uses the old DMI rather than the QPI that Core i7s use, I was in the understanding that QPI was much faster?
 
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