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The i7 has landed for pre-order.
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There are price cuts on the 19th Oct and a further one apparently on the 30th Nov.
Soldato
God!! I thought my rig was expensive at £520 lol
Man of Honour
lol @ 750 for just the 3 main parts.. I think I'll wait for drops..
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Has anyone been brave enough (i mean rich enough) to pre order?
Soldato
I would love to see Q9550/Q9650 at 4+ Ghz vs Nehalem 2.66ghz clocked at whatever it clocks too in terms of gaming performance.
No point making up your own conclusions but I can't see it making a big improvement like conroe did for Intel in comparison to what Penryn is now.
Conroe to Penryn? Penryn to Nahelem?
Only reason I would be it is because its something even newer, waste of money though lol.
I've only had my rig about a week & I'm tempted, I could make back the money with a loss of about £30 as I got it a lot cheaper new anyway.
No point making up your own conclusions but I can't see it making a big improvement like conroe did for Intel in comparison to what Penryn is now.
Conroe to Penryn? Penryn to Nahelem?
Only reason I would be it is because its something even newer, waste of money though lol.
I've only had my rig about a week & I'm tempted, I could make back the money with a loss of about £30 as I got it a lot cheaper new anyway.
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Think I will pass for now as games see very little difference (Lost Planet & Devil May Cry4 show the biggest boosts I have seen for this) so only really for e-peeners or those with more money than sense.
6 months is a better time to buy as by then you will be able to get 3rd party HSFs and the clock speeds will be much higher as well. Early adopters always get to pay the high prices. Surprised the Extreme Edition is so much as the $-£ price is around £750!!
6 months is a better time to buy as by then you will be able to get 3rd party HSFs and the clock speeds will be much higher as well. Early adopters always get to pay the high prices. Surprised the Extreme Edition is so much as the $-£ price is around £750!!
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Looks like my next upgarde is here
HI there
Not so sure about this, I was running the one here with a Vcore voltage of 1.35v with upto 1.45v maximum but I was running the memory at 2.06v without issue and the processor has showed no signs of giving up.....
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A bit of a joke when the Memory voltage affects the CPU Voltage ! (they obv for once did not copy AMD's idea's) 
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Soldato
You forget the people that actually use the cpu grunt for work, games and benchmarks aren't the only reason you'd buy one of these.
I'll be buying before xmas I imagine, probably the 2.66GHz model, but I'll wait a few weeks until the prices settle I think.
A bit of a joke when the Memory voltage affects the CPU Voltage ! (they obv for once did not copy AMD's idea's)
HI there
Did you read my post?
I've been running continuously with 2.06v memory voltage and have been upto 2.15v, the CPU still lives and shows no sign of dying.
Soldato
How long have you been running the rig? Has the rig been running continuously over a long period?
The thing is does the problem occur over a longer period of time . . . .
stupid claim!
How about people who encode, decode, render, compile, virtualise, scientific computing, data mine .......................
The rig has been on my desk for over a month, its set at 3.60GHz with 1.30v, memory at 1.96v (1900MHz CAS 8-8-8-16) and all seems fine with it.