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i7 990X (ETA?)
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This report seems to reckon it will be out next month and come with a 3.46GHz stock clockspeed, new gulftown stepping and an unlocked multiplier.
I do believe these rumours, seems like a good time for a revised stepping and a new top-end part, unfortunately it is almost certainly too rich for my blood.
I do believe these rumours, seems like a good time for a revised stepping and a new top-end part, unfortunately it is almost certainly too rich for my blood.
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Soldato
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Woah, slow down on the random threads mate 
I personally don't see a very huge market for the 990x, surely the 980x would suffice most people fine?
I personally don't see a very huge market for the 990x, surely the 980x would suffice most people fine?
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september onwards seems probable. New stepping will be desireable by clockers aswell as higher stock clock
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mmm, another powerful monster from intel, if you can overclocker your 980x to this speed and there is not extra added, whats the point?? i am up with intel but sometimes i am sure they are trying too hard...they should be thinking of making maybe a 128bit chip which falls back to 64bit, now if this chip has that, then i will be up for it, despite there is not 128bit software out yet.
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128bit will not be adopted for some time we're still 5 years or so since mainstrean x64 and a lot of apps still arent optimized
Although it is good to see Intel release the 990x, its about time we had Sandy Bridge. If your a benchmark-breaker, then carrying on with the purchase of the 990X.
Just think if the 990X costs an insane £990
and S.B. came out 2 months later, I'm guessing it will cost a third of that - you'd get similar performance anyway (4-cores/8-threads @3.0GHz/3.8GHz Turbo).
The (rumoured) bandwidth is lower on S.B. (21.3GBs) compared to Westmere's 25.6GBs. But when you start talking hundreds of pounds for a little performance increase, I'd wait a little, or start saving for the extreme S.B. with double bandwidth (51.2GBs) and will hopefully feature PCIe 3.0.
Just think if the 990X costs an insane £990
and S.B. came out 2 months later, I'm guessing it will cost a third of that - you'd get similar performance anyway (4-cores/8-threads @3.0GHz/3.8GHz Turbo).The (rumoured) bandwidth is lower on S.B. (21.3GBs) compared to Westmere's 25.6GBs. But when you start talking hundreds of pounds for a little performance increase, I'd wait a little, or start saving for the extreme S.B. with double bandwidth (51.2GBs) and will hopefully feature PCIe 3.0.
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To the OP, its not like we could tell you an ETA anyway. Ever heard of something called NDA?
whats the penalty for breaking it?
A big **** off fine tbh.
probably a fine and/or that you can't handle sensitive information like such again
