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Engadget - Comments for Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/ Engadget Comments for Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 7:46PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 7:52PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 7:55PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 7:56PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 8:01PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 1:56AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
These people just are so caught up in their numbers...]]>Nov 1st 2008 6:26AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 4:12PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 7:49PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
If AMD doesn't pick up the pace somewhere, they're going to just keep going down. Unless this bad economy we're about to have (it's only getting started people) will allow for them to gain some new traction in the cheap PC sector. Maybe an Intel atom competitor??? We'll see.]]>Oct 31st 2008 8:03PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
In the end 3dmark and it likes are always accurate when you summarize things.]]>Nov 1st 2008 10:17AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
Then again, the 65nm 1GHz 9 watt Sempron 2100+ is over $80... nowhere near Atom.

They've also got the Geode family up their sleeve, but that architecture is from the 486 era, and probably can't scale to compete with Atom on the high end. (It uses less power than Atom on the very low end, though...)]]>Nov 2nd 2008 9:24AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 7:52PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 10:26PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 11:43PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 1:58AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
That is what happens to Intel without competition.

]]>Nov 1st 2008 2:12AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
I can tell you what it is you dislike about posts like that because it's the same thing I, and every other person who high marked you dislike: they're trite and glib and fanboy-istic.

-jp
]]>Nov 1st 2008 1:41PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 12:03AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
I want to price info :].]]>Nov 1st 2008 12:05AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 7:56PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/And the HDD fails :S]]>Oct 31st 2008 7:57PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
So yeah, definitely get an I7 upgrade, you'll probably be more blown away at the sheer speed alone because you don't have a dual core right now (well I'm assuming this, since you want to get rid of a P4)

Just get an I7.]]>Oct 31st 2008 7:59PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
Call me crazy (or poor, which is more accurate), but I'm a previous-gen-tech kinda guy.]]>Oct 31st 2008 11:24PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 1:13AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 2:35PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
That said though, I think Nehalem is going to fetch a good premium for the next yr (motherboard, ddr3 etc) before it becomes economical for most.]]>Nov 1st 2008 4:50PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 8:05PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/

please]]>Oct 31st 2008 8:18PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
But this chip is actually pretty efficienct, it's just that it's very fast. No matter how efficient the chip, if you buy twice the CPU power as you need, you're gonna use twice the power you need to.]]>Oct 31st 2008 8:37PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 11:29PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 12:54AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 2:15AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/]]>Nov 1st 2008 2:18AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
I swear, some people put ridiculous blinders on. I never said anything about the government telling people what to do, but since that's one of your pet peeves, you read that in and then rail against it. Is there any point in trying to even have a discussion with a person who bends reality to their beliefs in this way?]]>Nov 1st 2008 2:24AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 8:04PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
*damn, i'm a geek* xD]]>Oct 31st 2008 8:09PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 8:41PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
the 7th month of the year!!! Whoa, even August is 7!]]>Oct 31st 2008 9:10PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
ME=FAIL]]>Oct 31st 2008 9:11PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 9:21PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 1:16AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Nov 1st 2008 7:08AM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
I like AMD and VIA because they compete with Intel, and help keep the price low, and bring advances like Nehalem around. I hope they stick around, so I can use better Intel products.

The 7 thing is weird: e.g. the ubiquity of the number 7 in Harry Potter, and how the fans hoped for a 07/07/07 release last year. God, they years go by so fast.]]>Nov 1st 2008 4:22PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/It's "i7" not "I7"
Lower case i's are way more controversial.
:P]]>Oct 31st 2008 8:04PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
They need some epic miracle to match this, damn :(]]>Oct 31st 2008 8:05PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 8:52PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 8:08PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/Oct 31st 2008 8:12PM<![CDATA[Comments on Intel Core i7 benchmarks make Core 2 Extreme look like a washed-up has-been]]>http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/31/intel-core-i7-benchmarks-make-core-2-extreme-look-like-a-washed/
Don't know where you got that idea. There are some indications it's down a little bit (like 10%) clock for clock against Core 2 Duo on some benchmarks.

On the other hand, this has 4 cores and Core 2 Duo has 2. So any of these 3 shown will do far better than the fastest Core 2 Duo.]]>Oct 31st 2008 8:19PM