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New Intel Roadmap has info new Core i3, i5 and i7 models

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Intel Roadmap has info new Core i3, i5 and i7 models
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, November 29, 2009 - 11:01 PM

A new roadmap leak provides not only information on the specifications of Intel's Core i5 750 and i7 860 low-power version Lynnfield chips (“S” chips) but also has some info on the Pentium G6950, a Clarkdale-based CPU.

The roadmap indicates speeds of 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz for the Lynnfield Core i5 750 and i7 860, respectively, (which are scalable to to 3.2GHz/3.46GHz) and the specs of the G6950 are a clock of 2.85GHz, 3MB L2 cache. The leak also mentions the Core i3 530 and 540 central processors, with 4MB L2 cache and respective clocks of 3.06GHz and 2.93GHz.

The roadmap even seems to indicate the release periods of the i5 650, 660/661, and 670, which are Clarkdale Core i5 processors. They are set for launch during 2010's first quarter (which is consistent to Intel's announcement of their release on Januray 10) and their frequencies range between 3.2 and 3.46GHz for the i5 650, 3.33 and 3.6GHz for the 660/661 and 3.46 and 3.73GHz for the Core i5 670. As a note, the current i5 750 only reaches 2.66GHz. Besides the Core i5 661 which has a thermal envelope of 73W, all Clarkdale i5 chips consume 73W.

As comparison, the new low-power S versions of the aforementioned Lynnfield chips only eat up 82W, compared to their initial incarnations which use 95W. In addition, the S chips have a L2 chache of 8MB and should also appear during the first quarter of 2010.
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News source and full roadmap link can be found here:
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Withi this in mind is it worth buying a new I5 setup in around a months time? Dont want to waste my money if there is something better coming really soon for around the same price :P
 
well my i5 750 happily does 3.7mhz on stock volts, dont really think these cpus are going to interest me to be honest (unless they do 4.7mhz oc:D) as from the look of things a lot are below what are available now
 
A dual core 3.73Ghz i5 socket cpu will appeal to a lot of people.

On that basis they may overclock to 5Ghz.
 
hyperst said:
well my i5 750 happily does 3.7mhz on stock volts, dont really think these cpus are going to interest me to be honest (unless they do 4.7mhz oc:D) as from the look of things a lot are below what are available now
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Mwahah ;)

Clarkdale might be a good gaming chip (and I'm not referring to the almost certainly pants GPU they're sticking in it).

I'd have got a dual core since games are the most demanding primary use of my computer but since the E8600 was looking terrible value compared to the i5 I got that instead.
 
psychas said:
does not make sense there no good 32 nm quadcores till 2011
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It does make sense a little, but correct me on this if im wrong.

I they did bring out 32 nm quadcores, they probably would overclock like a dream and would sell like hot cakes, and because of this, no one would be interested in there their upcoming Gulftown processor, especially if the 32 nm quadcores overclocked ended up being faster for most things.
 
Old news :) I posted this somewhere on here when i5 and new i7 came out saying there was going to be an S version with lower tdp.
 
What about the upcoming i9 cpus ? Obviously other members have mentioned that they are gonna be extremely expensive but is it really worth spending a huge deal now when a new model is coming round the corner and prices of current models will drop
 
Sylver123 said:
It does make sense a little, but correct me on this if im wrong.

I they did bring out 32 nm quadcores, they probably would overclock like a dream and would sell like hot cakes, and because of this, no one would be interested in there their upcoming Gulftown processor, especially if the 32 nm quadcores overclocked ended up being faster for most things.
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Thats actually very true, I was wondering why we dont see any quadcore 32nm core i5s, but then thats the dream cpu but then no point in the Core i9.

Still the new core i5-750 s edition should proove a good chip.
 
actually

Westmere (formerly Nehalem-C) is the name given to the 32 nm die shrink of Nehalem. Westmere should be ready for a Q4 2009 release provided that Intel stays on target with its roadmap. However, it appears that the bulk of Westmere's versions, excluding mobile versions, will be released sometime in Q1, 2010
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