Intel's six-core Core i7-980X Extreme Edition 'Gulftown' chip goes on sale in Germany
By Darren Murph 
posted March 1st 2010 11:50AM
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*drools*
@Prevacator More like "Engulftown"... of your wallet!
I thought Gulftown was the name for the i9 though. *scratches head*
@Prevacator
Well, the rest of us will wait another 6 months to see this get dropped to a more reasonable price. Look how quickly the prices i3's and i5's dropped, not to mention i7's, in the last 6 months. It's insane how that works.
I'm excited at the prospects.
@Ducman69
That was the speculation, but it turned out to be wrong.
*glares at current computer in disgust*
@bazookafx3
I second that
And please, as always: No flash photography!
@stridermt2k
And no flashing your cash at the price
Perhaps a 16 threaded 2 socket Intel system would be faster and more cost effective?
@excelsium Not really, a stock clock dual CPU capable Xeon 5500 series is $1689.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117214
It's called "gulftown" because somewhere there's a city by the same name you can buy for the same price.
1000 € for 2 more cores that's insane
@jdm28690
50% more cores for 50% more money?
thats a deal when you consider that early testers have been able to get over 5ghz stable on simple water cooling (360mm radiator)
@jdm28690
its not just for "2 more cores", its a 32nm Nehalem with 6 cores.
Alternate is Dutch, so you could say that it went on sale in western-europe..
Although the orange bars mean that it isn't on sale yet and that it's unknown when it get's shipped. (Google translate; Levertermijn onbekend. Kijk regelmatig of het artikel leverbaar is.)
@24hourpartypal I don't know if its also available in the other countries, but the German site says approx. time they ship is 14. of march. And its really expensive... but hey u can choose deferred payment!
In other related news, Intel have announced an experimental 48-core processor which is faster than the Core 2 series by a factor of 10 to 20. Also AMD have announced that they are close to releasing 8 and 12 core CPUs after engineering samples leaked onto eBay.
*newsman voice off*
*yet another Q6600 based comment*
I'm still happy with my Q6600. Rocking it at 3.2GHz ;D
@richb93 Kudos to the Q'ey! Mine runs 3.8 on the stock fan!!
I've always wanted to try a watercooling loop on it and up the voltage a tad too, just to see what the most is I could get...
@FORDY STOCK FAN?!? Just thinking about the load temps with that makes me queasy. I hit 60 under load, and thats with an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.
€1,049 = $1,049
That is the actual exchange rate when it comes to electronics prices. At least engadget should know that.
rofl @the Tags at Alternate for the CPU:
Gnaaaa O___O
Ew why is it an i7. I thought I was gonna be an i9. Intel makes no sense. Now we have i7s spread out on 2 different sockets with different cores. "shakes angry fist"
Way too overpriced...the phenom x6 processors will be half the price of this thing
@Giac
No it won't.
@Giac
They still won't.
Alternate is lame...... bad service Boooh!!
it as low as €963,36
see here:
http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a490109.html
does it comes in something like alienware ???
6 cores is so yesterday. AMD's 12 core (MagnaCore, I think?) will be in the next Dell PowerEdge/CloudEdge refresh in March.You'll be able to have 48 cores in a 2U enclosure.
It's more than just the 2 extra cores. The intel "extreme edition" cpu's come with the multipliers unlocked...it's the holy grail for overclockers.
The current Extreme Edition quad-core I7 fetches nearly $1000.
I was hoping to get one of these for a build later this year along with a GeForce 480 GTX. Hopefully the price stateside will stay at or under 1k.
is it just me or do i read "one point zero four nine euros"?
@shithead:
In Europe, the comma is used as a decimal point and the decimal point is used as the thousands separator.
Call me when these go mainstream... Still rocking my core 2 duo and I have yet to see a need to upgrade
@Tidal
Guess you dont play games. Or do anything strenuous with your PC.
@fel actually I do play games, most games I play are not optimized for quad core, let alone hex core systems. If the system doesn't take advantage of it, then there's no point in paying a premium for it. Processors stopped being the primary bottle-neck a long time ago when the vast majority of the processing power was off loaded to the GPU and its dedicated memory.
When the majority of games hop on the multi core bandwagon, then I will see a need to upgrade. Right now it's just one big pissing contest about who has the biggest baddest e-peen.
@Tidal:
>the vast majority of the processing power was off loaded to the GPU and its dedicated memory.
The CPU constructs the wireframe of a three dimensional object before the GPU can fill in the textures for it. To say a CPU is more important than a GPU is ignorant; they support each other and are equally important.
I'll take a dual-processor board and a couple of Phenom IIs, thanks.
"that's a stiff premium"
Extreme Edition is always a kilobuck.
Why Germany? Am I not good enough?
What will they call all these extreme chips when they arin't so extreme?
It's incredible how Engadget German fails to deliver information from their (our) own country. I am really, really disappointed by the local staff.