First Core i7-980X CPU Review ?

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/944


Could just be me not keeping my eyes open though

 

[Biz.Kid09]

There is also one over at Bit-Tech

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

and another on andand guess some sort of NDA expired

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3763

 

[=VTA=MANFACE]

I was hoping for more over my 975.

 

[somewhatdamaged]

http://www.guru3d.com/news/intel-core-i7-980x-review/

It's incredibly fast - massive improvement on the quad i7's.

 

[Pneumonic]

http://www.guru3d.com/news/intel-core-i7-980x-review/

It's incredibly fast - massive improvement on the quad i7's.

Not really...

Games its the same as a i7 975 although that's expected..

If you look at the improvement multi-tasking improvement over the i7 975 then in the couple of reviews I have looked at its around 25% - 30% quicker, for an additional two cores / four threads you would expect more surely

 

[86JR]

What you need to remember is there are things going on in the background whilst your gaming.

 

[somewhatdamaged]

You're quite right, the gaming improvements are practically zero, but it is expected with most games being GPU limited

I would like one, but no way would i ever pay £1000 for a CPU

I'm glad it's socket LGA1366 though, give it 12 months and it will be very affordable

 

[rjk]

i dont think gulftown is 'aimed' at gamers.

 

[Pneumonic]

True, but if you seriously require 'multi-core' then you wouldn't be buying a desktop platform anyway.. hell if you are spending £1K on a CPU you may as well go the whole hog and spend 10K and get yourself four 12-core opterons and 64GB of ram

 

[Freddie1980]

It gives a nice boost in .H264 video encoding which is something that I do a lot of.

 

[gurusan]

Wow, awesome chip.

...but if anyone buys one of these things for gaming they are quite retarded. Fortunately for Intel there are a lot of retarded people in the world.

 

[Frozennova]

Great if you doing anything massively multithreaded otherwise not a lot of benefits over a heavily clocked quad, it would be nice if they could give us some numbers to show what kind of PPD it will produce Folding@Home

 

[mmj_uk]

Looks like a decent upgrade games aside but games haven't really benefitted from cutting edge CPU's in a long time so it was to be expected.

Are there any non-Xtreme versions in the pipeline? I'd be tempted by say a 3Ghz one at £300 or thereabouts - overclock it to 4Ghz and it should dominate for a couple of years.

 

[Pneumonic]

the i7 970 is the non-extreme version is scheduled for release in Q3

 

[ennogs]

I would like one, but no way would i ever pay £1000 for a CPU

I thought they were going to be $999 which is around £666 or are we getting ripped of in the UK yet again. Mind you £666 is still too high lol.

 

[ennogs]

http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/motherboards/2024_1.html

 

[Saundie]

the i7 970 is the non-extreme version is scheduled for release in Q3

This is the one I'll be looking to get when I move from S775, unless there are some workstation grade socket G34 boards for the new AMD Magny-Cours processors available around that time.

 

[johny dolan]

I thought they were going to be $999 which is around £666 or are we getting ripped of in the UK yet again. Mind you £666 is still too high lol.

I think the price is $999 when sold in batches of 1000

 

[cambb]

I think the price is $999 when sold in batches of 1000

They will be more like $1500 when sold indvidually