http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/ Engadget Comments for Early Core i9 benchmarks promising, make you wonder why you even bothered with Core i7 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif 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/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
I'm just waiting for the day when we have to have cores dedicated to controlling the threading of the other cores. ]]>Nov 24th 2009 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Naming scheme doesn't make sense. Should be i4 for four cores, i6 for six, etc. :)]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Dec 4th 2009 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Core i9s will have the same socket as Core i7s. LGA1366.]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/This chip isn't for you. If you are interested in saving money, you should get a socket 1156 chip, a Lynnfield.

You may have had a 775 forever, but it was low-performing junk for most of the time you had it, so a Lynnfield shouldn't let you down much (it outperforms my i7/920!).]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
You should go complain to AMD or nVidia that you have to get a new board every time you upgrade the CPU on you video card.]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 25th 2009 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Man, by the rate Intel keeps improving their designs with the Tick Tock, and how far out AMD's next core is (late 2011 I think?) AMD looks like they will have a hard time staying afloat. At least ATI is doing well for them. ]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
You are aware AMD has had a 6 core cpu out for some time now, right? These are only gonna be in servers and supercomputing for quite some time now, so you don't need to worry your pretty little consumerist head yet.]]>Nov 25th 2009 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 25th 2009 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Dec 4th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Same i knew spending money on that beast of a board would pay off.]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
So I could replace my 920 with this baby and break even power wise, and allegedly anyone else with a Socket 1366 Nehelem could too.]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
This is a socket 1366 chip. As I said, Socket 1366 i7s (the 9xx series) are 130W TDP. It's the socket 1156 i7s (the 800 series) that are 95W, but that's not relevant since this chip doesn't go in that socket. So if you put in this chip, you're not raising your system's TDP since your system must have had a 130W chip before or this one wouldn't fit in it.]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/bad way to start off, man]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 6:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
The 870 can hit 3.46GHz on two cores. That's 45nm chip with a TDP of 95W.
This is a 32nm part with 130W of TDP to play with. ]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
I wonder if that's when the Mac Pros regain their edge over the iMac line]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Mac Pros always have the edge in the pro world, but for Mom & Dad macfan, the 27" core i7 imac will keep them happy for a long time!

Cant wait to upgrade all my production Mac Pro's and xServes to dual i9's! 24 "cores" in each box! Saaaa-weeeet!
]]>Nov 24th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
4 cores on a 2.8GHz Xeon processor perform better then two cores on a 3.2GHz C2D chip.

I expect the Mac Pro will get updated in January like it has every January the last few years. It will support the new i9 chips.

I'll take my 2008 Penryn quad 2.8GHz Mac Pro over an iMac any day.]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Mac Pros have had dual quad Nehelem Xeons for a while now. iMacs just got i5/i7 chips. I'm pretty sure 8 cores/16 threads @ 2.93Ghz with Turbo Boost up to 3.33Ghz would smoke an iMac.]]>Nov 24th 2009 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Imagine that. four cores are faster than two.

I hope you don't think that has anything to do with the xeon moniker. ]]>Nov 30th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Why'd my comment get cut off?

I meant to say: Any chance these beasts will be less than $300 each? I was hoping to build a new computer this summer...]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/if you're looking for "reasonably priced" I'd suggest going for i5
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0317379]]>Nov 24th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Prices will drop in H2 2010 when they introduce the other gulftown models but I wouldn't expect the first Core i9 with anything less than a $1k price tag]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
With that out of my system, I am just going to wait until I can get a 32nm chip for around $300 or less, and hopefully not with an odd number or Apple designator in the name.

(it's the 'i' if you didn't get the Apple reference, dummo)]]>Nov 24th 2009 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Nov 24th 2009 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/$400? that's like 50 in real money, that's overdoing it.
]]>Nov 24th 2009 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Building your own PC unfortunately looks like the way to get a good deal on Core i7 so far. In theory, you can do it starting around $600, less if you've got a few components you can keep from your old PC.]]>Nov 25th 2009 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Still hoping for $400 i7 PC. The stagnant competition from AMD seems to slow down the price war.]]>Nov 25th 2009 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Hope its your last post ever too.]]>Nov 24th 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/Such is technology too.
]]>Nov 24th 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
It's funny that Engadget keeps confusing the 1366 i7 with the baby 1156 which only now found its way in Macs.]]>Nov 24th 2009 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/early-core-i9-benchmarks-promising-make-you-wonder-why-you-even/
Feel like tossing me the 920?;)]]>Nov 24th 2009 10:53AM