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The i7 has landed for pre-order.
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Caporegime
Its big.
Ive seen some companies that heatsinks bases are big enough and going to make different sized brackets so you can use s775 ones, but expect a whole new influx of heatsinks for them when they come out. The newer ones will be more suited aswell.
Associate
The prices are ridiculous. £850 for an extreme i7 is a joke, obviously the lack of competition has reverted Intel back to its old ways already. Come AMD where are ya! 
Associate
Its 45nm should run cooler, the old S775 ones if they fit should run fine i guess.
Associate
Actually where are the i7's? They were on overclockers earlier now they have gone....
Caporegime
The prices are ridiculous. £850 for an extreme i7 is a joke, obviously the lack of competition has reverted Intel back to its old ways already. Come AMD where are ya!
At least is aint £1k+ though.
Associate
Not far away, it won't be long, unless AMD get there act together which could be the case with the latest news about these Denab chips.
Soldato
I am sure Overclockers had to take down the motherboards & CPU's due to NDA. I've read elsewhere they are still under strict NDA.
Tut tut OcUK, I bet Intel will be fuming, you might not get first stock now.
Happy hard launch Halloween everyone lol.
Tut tut OcUK, I bet Intel will be fuming, you might not get first stock now.
Happy hard launch Halloween everyone lol.
Soldato
lol was gonna say Ocuk I think jumped the gun by at least 4 weeks anyhow... They were certainly quick too take that down !
At least we now know its due end of this month which feels ages away anyhow 4 Fridays away !
At least we now know its due end of this month which feels ages away anyhow 4 Fridays away !
Associate
OcUK/Forums still rock NDA or not
Soldato
This thread is getting quite funny, how much were the top AMD FX CPUs when released? And how much are the Extreme C2Q CPUs now? The i7 Extreme CPU is priced very good IMO.
Soldato
the FX53/55/57 where about the £560 mark, give or take a smidge depending on where you did your buying.
Associate
Correct. The prices now are STUPID. Really annoys me that you pay 3/4 times the price for a 5/10% faster CPU that you can easily beat when overclocking.
Associate
I'm certain I saw the top-end AMD FX chips over £1000 a few years ago. The QX9775 is over £1K and the QX9770 just under.
You can't compare an overclocked chip with a non-overclocked one. The deciding factor will be whether or not you can easily beat an overclocked 775 chip with an overclocked i7 chip.
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Associate
no way were the FX's over 1k, most i ever saw 1 was 699 just after the fx70 came out
Soldato
well, i had 2 FX53's, 2 FX55's and an FX57 and i never payed over £560 for any of them. so i dunno who was charging over a grand for FX chips, certainly wasn't any of the shops i was buying from.
Associate
well, i had 2 FX53's, 2 FX55's and an FX57 and i never payed over £560 for any of them. so i dunno who was charging over a grand for FX chips, certainly wasn't any of the shops i was buying from.
exactly, current CPU prices are a JOKE!
Comparing clocked to non-clocked processors is like comparing an apple to an orange.
Run everything at "stock" and then see what benefits you are getting from the new CPU.
Remember that the majority of CPU's will not be overclocked.
Despite the vocal "overclockers" etc the majority of chips will make their way into home PC's and work machines where there won't be any overclocking going on.
Run everything at "stock" and then see what benefits you are getting from the new CPU.
Remember that the majority of CPU's will not be overclocked.
Despite the vocal "overclockers" etc the majority of chips will make their way into home PC's and work machines where there won't be any overclocking going on.
Man of Honour
I can't wait for gaming benchmarks putting them up against current duals and quads tbh. Unless there is some already, in which case link plz