*** Intel P55 Launch - The CPU's ***

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*** *** Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail @ £159.99 inc VAT *** ***

With the Intel® Core i5 processor, you can multitask up to 28% faster, so you can do more things at once and be more productive than ever. Maximize speed for demanding applications with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, which accelerates processor clock speed up to 20% to match your workload. So you'll move faster when multitasking and get more accomplished in less time. Unleash an amazing digital media experience with up to 37% faster conversion of video for web upload, up to 15% faster photo editing and up to 17 % faster conversion of CD music tracks to MP3. Get a 32% improvement in artificial intelligence for game characters and realistic physics for game worlds.

- Lithography Process: 45 nm
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 4
- Frequency: 2.66 GHz
- Multiplier: 20
- Cache: 256 KB L2/core and 8 MB shared L3
- Memory Controller: Dual channel DDR3 800/1066/1333 MHz
- TDP: 95W
- Socket: LGA1166

Only £159.99 inc VAT.

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*** *** Intel Core i7 860 2.80Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail @ £226.99 inc VAT *** ***

Nehalem is a radically new design for Intel: for the first time, the CPU is a 'native' quad-core CPU, where all four cores sit on the same piece of silicon. With its Core 2 CPUs, Intel used two dual-Core dies to create a quad-core chip, this translates into better performance. Nehalem features Level 3 cache, something first seen on earlier Xeon server chips, but Intel Core i7s will feature up to a massive 8MB (shared between all four cores). Each of Nehalem's four cores has 256KB of lower-latency Level 2 cache. Nehalem uses Hyper-Threading. This technology works just as it did with the Pentium 4, using spare resources of a processing core to try to execute a second process thread. This means that a quad-core Nehalem processor can accept and attempt to process eight threads simultaneously, making it even more massively parallel than the current Core 2 Quad CPUs.

- Lithography Process: 45 nm
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 8
- Frequency: 2.80 GHz
- Multiplier: 21
- Cache: 256 KB L2/core and 8 MB shared L3
- Memory Controller: Dual channel DDR3 800/1066/1333 MHz
- TDP: 95W
- Socket: LGA1166

Only £226.99 inc VAT.

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*** *** Intel Core i7 870 2.93Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail @ £439.99 inc VAT *** ***

Nehalem is a radically new design for Intel: for the first time, the CPU is a 'native' quad-core CPU, where all four cores sit on the same piece of silicon. With its Core 2 CPUs, Intel used two dual-Core dies to create a quad-core chip, this translates into better performance. Nehalem features Level 3 cache, something first seen on earlier Xeon server chips, but Intel Core i7s will feature up to a massive 8MB (shared between all four cores). Each of Nehalem's four cores has 256KB of lower-latency Level 2 cache. Nehalem uses Hyper-Threading. This technology works just as it did with the Pentium 4, using spare resources of a processing core to try to execute a second process thread. This means that a quad-core Nehalem processor can accept and attempt to process eight threads simultaneously, making it even more massively parallel than the current Core 2 Quad CPUs.

- Lithography Process: 45 nm
- Cores: 4
- Threads: 8
- Frequency: 2.93 GHz
- Multiplier: 22
- Cache: 256 KB L2/core and 8 MB shared L3
- Memory Controller: Dual channel DDR3 800/1066/1333 MHz
- TDP: 95W
- Socket: LGA1166

Only £439.99 inc VAT.

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[Robert1986]

wow. I wish I had the money. £439.99 for just a cpu is a bit overkill.

 

[Margaret]

Depends what you need it for, you can get ones way cheaper then just overclock them.

For gaming a cheaper CPU will do just fine, a £60 dual core will run most games just fine, very few exceptions as most games are limited by your graphics card with the CPU making a much smaller impact.

Will still pick up an i5/7 later this year though when I build a new PC, could use the extra rendering power for other things than gaming.