New Intel Core i7 CPUs show up unannounced

Intel's Core i7 has become somewhat of a mainstay in the most recent wave of gaming rigs, but it's been quite awhile (in processor years, anyway) since we've seen any new siblings join the launch gang. We'd heard faint whispers that a new crew was set to steal the stage on May 31st, and those rumors are looking all the more likely now that a few heretofore unheard of chips have appeared online. The 3.06GHz Core i7 950 is shown over at PCs For Everyone with 8MB of shared L3 cache and a $649 price tag, and it's expected that said chip will replace the aging Core i7 940. Moving on up, there's the luscious 3.33GHz Core i7 Extreme 975, which is also listed with 8MB of shared L3 cache but packs a staggering price tag well above the $1,100 mark. If all this pans out, this CPU will replace the Core i7 Extreme 965 as Intel fastest Core i7 product. Just a few more days to wait, right?

[Via PCWorld]

Read - Core i7 Extreme 975 listing
Read - Core i7 950 listing

[swimatm Posted May 28th 2009 2:09AM]

The megahertz wars are over, my friend. Now it's more about cores, cache, and qpi.

[Alexster404 Posted May 28th 2009 1:36AM]

The Quad core is a slight improvement over the dual quad gaming wise because games are already assigned a specific number of cores considering you can over clock to multi task better

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 3:03AM]

Is the Core i7 a big improvement over the Quad Core processors in just desktopping/gaming? Or more for people who use Photo shop and 3DMark?

[morissen3k8 Posted May 28th 2009 3:26AM]

but 130w is quite the energy vampire... when will the i7 power requirements decrease down back to the reasonable 65w?

[cchance Posted May 28th 2009 8:10AM]

heres the question with 3 new procs coming when will the old i7's drop in price i've been eyeing a core i7 920 but right now the f*ckers so damn expensive if it slipped to 199 i'd have bought it already, not to mention the damn intel x58 boards are all over 240$

does anyone have any insight into when we might see a price cut coming to the i7's and x58? you know based on how things are now and upcoming events etc? i know no one knows for sure but any guesses?

[KAL326 Posted May 28th 2009 9:26AM]

Already happened

www.microcenter.com has had 920 for $199.99 and a few X58 boards for under $200 after MIR. Also 6GB DDR3 1600 kits for $94 if your just going to run 3 DIMMS or 1333 kits for somewhere in the 80s. i7 system for under $500 assuming you have the rest of the guts.