i7 price cut

[Taibhse]

http://www.igniq.com/2010/08/23/intel-i ... rice-cuts/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

exactly the kind of thing I like to see

[Bowzie]

Does this mean so that intel are bringing out a new range of processors soon?

[Taibhse]

Does this mean so that intel are bringing out a new range of processors soon?

Would hope so, am waiting for the next gen. However They announced a new i7 a while ago so I think this is just them moving everything down a level.

still, always nice when this happens.

edit: found a nice link about the new i7, they are releasing a new generation of i3,i5 and i7
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3871/the- ... in-a-row/1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Knails]

they were annouced a while back.

http://gizmodo.com/5411119/intel-core-i ... f-pure-joy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[JeFFeR]

yes man

ofcourse there will be new sockets
sandy bridge processors wil come out.
some of those processors are very low power....like a normal dual core takes now.
also there focussing on more cores.
they have a locked base lock...so overclocking isnt gonna work very well..
if you want to overclock with those cpu's...take a cpu with a K in it

they are not really that much faster atm then a 1366 i7.
the difference is a other team designed this then the i7 team...
ofcourse it will become faster on the new socket anyways.

hexa and octa cores will only come out on socket lga2011 tho
and ofcourse motherboards support quad channel ram.

update of socket 1165 = 1155
update of socket 1366 = 2011 or the year it will come out.

if you wonna upgrade...you dont have to wait perse on the newer systems....it wont help you game faster anyways...well, not with tf2 anyways

oh btw: new cpu's has very strange names...
for instance: Core i7-2600K is a 3,4GHz (3,8GHz)
that new name system of intel makes things rather complicated...