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The i7 has landed for pre-order.

MooMoo444 said:
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
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Posted a few reply’s above,

Originally Posted by Anandtech
Nehalem is about improving HPC, Database and virtualization performance, much less about gaming performance. Maybe this will change once games get some heavy physics threads, but not right away.
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Well intel say they aren't aimed at gamers, doesn't necesarily mean they aren't going to be greater than the current for gaming.

Plus I probably won't be getting one myself for ages anyway (unless they turn out to be worth it) so benchmarks are the only way I'll be able to find out :-)
 
MooMoo444 said:
Well intel say they aren't aimed at gamers, doesn't necesarily mean they aren't going to be greater than the current for gaming.

Plus I probably won't be getting one myself for ages anyway (unless they turn out to be worth it) so benchmarks are the only way I'll be able to find out :-)
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Yeah that’s true, just seems people may be disappointed at the gaming aspect as the speed jumps for gaming doesn’t seem that big according Intel and a few other sources, not many games if any max current CPUs so moving to an i7 won’t see a massive jump, although everything else it will fly and see a nice big jump ! :D
 
I've been saying about prices ever since people started mentioning them and advising people not to upgrade now and wait for i7.

My argument is that the performance that can be had with a E8500, decent mobo and 4gb of ddr2 ram or even a q9xxx chip for a third to a half of the cost of a new i7 rig just does't make sense unless you really must have the best of the best.

I see people hanging onto amd 3800+ and 4200+ with £500-£700 budgets waiting for these.

Okay, they are fast and clock per clock beat current cpus but perhaps not in games from early indications, just applications and benchmarks.

I would rather spend my money on a current highend cpu system and spend what I would have spent on a i7 system on extra ram, and a 2nd graphics card. In games, the result would certainly be a much faster system for less money.
 
The price does seem ridiculously high but then again most things are in the current climate. I'm kind of hoping AMD's denab turns out to be a lot better then people thought, id love to go back to amd.
 
I don't agree. The price is not high, especially if you take into account that:

1) We live in the Land of Tax
2) This is a launch price
3) My QX6700 at launch was well over £1000 at launch
4) Fuel prices etc

Having said that, Canada get them a lot cheaper (about 2/3rds of our prices) and the mobos are well overpriced - but maybe they will come down (fingers crossed!) Or hopefully the stockmarket will crash and we get them both for next to nothing........:D
 
The processor prices are standard for launch... it's the mobo and memory prices that will make a Nehalem rig expensive.
 
HighlandeR said:
Is the rumour still true that the Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) can beat the performance or match the QX9650 "LGA775 Yorkfield" 3.00GHz ?
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Clock for clock in single threaded apps there isnt much difference, The power of I7 is in the hypertheading, With multi threaded apps its a lot faster but there isnt really much game wise that can even use all 8 threads at the moment. I'll be sticking with my qx9650 till the 6 or 8 core versions are out along with skulltrail 2 :p
 
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