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The i7 has landed for pre-order.

I dont see what all the fuss is about until more games and programes can actually fully use a current quad, 8 threads is just silly.
Even a core 2 running 3ghz is making current gpus bottleneck :(

Reality|Bites said:
Do you think the X58 boards will be able to use current DDR3? Or will there be new versions released which only require 1.5v?
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I read somewhere it can run single channel, dual channel or triple channel.
Also, im sure gibbo tested using a normal dual channel kit :)
 
sambo_joseph said:
Do you think the new processors will handle 3D rendering faster than a current quad CPU? (In software such as 3DS and Maya)
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3DS is nicely multithreaded so it *should* do rendering beautifully quickly, however I'm not sure if it'd use all 8 threads of an i7. I see no reason why it shouldn't, as the multithrededness (is that a word? :D ) just involves using multiple threads to render more than one render bucket at once, rather than the trickery they have to do with games.
 
Reality|Bites said:
Do you think the X58 boards will be able to use current DDR3? Or will there be new versions released which only require 1.5v?
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apparantly yes, there will. But if going triple channel you won't need extreme mhz as bandwidth will already be overboard. Still a really poor problem to find exisiting in such expensive hardware.

I remember the Athlons had a similar issue to this at launch, too. I think it was the other way round though? too much vcore killed peoples memory until they fixed it, something like that!
 
I dont see what all the fuss is about until more games and programes can actually fully use a current quad, 8 threads is just silly.
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Agree, most apps and games dont even fully utilise 4 cores, unless in an extreme market where the power is needed then why the rush to upgrade?
 
As much as I am loving my Core 2 Quad, I have this deep feeling Intel are pulling a Nvidia and we will end up seeing a bolt out of the "green" from AMD, all this marketing and high prices, sounds familiar?!
 
Concerning the voltage stuff:

Nordic hardware[/URL said:
]Well I'm back at the Intel office. It's been a year since my last visit, but I still find my ways around the office, not to mention the lab. We've been set up with some truly exquisite hardware and we've of course decided to hit it with the heaviest kind of cooling available, liquid nitrogen. As usual I can't tell you what we're overclocking or any numbers from the event. All I can say is that every piece of FUD you may have read about this particular hardware, that it is going to be hard to overclock, have memory issues or what is just that, FUD.
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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,8223.html
 
Not till its a lot cheaper with a revision or two under its belt.

Then again...

Haven't really made my mind up tbh, doesn't look like it has much to offer for gaming at the moment. Which is my main use, but ... I have this upgrade bug so..
 
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same same .. its how it will respond to volts that has me sitting on the fence at the moment,however listening to a few reputable people around the forums(tried&tested)all will have you believe it will be fine id like to think so, perhaps it is just a load of FUD;)only time will tell


[edit] Definition
FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp.: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products."[4] The term has also been attributed to veteran Morgan Stanley computer analyst Ulrich Weil, though it had already been used in other contexts as far back as the 1920s.[5][6]

As Eric S. Raymond writes:[7]

“ The idea, of course, was to persuade buyers to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. After 1991 the term has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon. ”

By spreading questionable information about the drawbacks of less well known products, an established company can discourage decision-makers from choosing those products over its wares, regardless of the relative technical merits. This is a recognized phenomenon, epitomized by the traditional axiom of purchasing agents that "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM equipment". The result is that many companies' IT departments buy software that they know to be technically inferior because upper management is more likely to recognize the brand.


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