Just this once,
DigiTimes has turned out to be spot on with
its prognostication. The six-core Core i7-970 rumor we heard earlier this month has now transmogrified into a retail product, and just as promised, it brings most of the goodies of the sublime
i7-980X at a moderately more affordable $899 price point. Based on the same 32nm Gulftown architecture as its costlier brother, the 970 will run at 3.2GHz by default, though presumably it too will be able to crank up speeds using Intel's
Turbo Boost. Aside from that, you get a healthy 12MB of on-chip cache and the standard triple-channel DDR3 memory controller. UK speed freaks can order one up as well now, clearly a tiny bit ahead of Intel itself making things official, so we'd advise checking with your nearest super-CPU purveyors in case they too have received some early units of this multithreaded code cruncher.
[Thanks, Polytonic]
posted July 19th 2010 2:38AM
@Hydra Yes, but in time there will be a better more powerful CPU. If you want the best you have to be willing to gamble.
Pair this with the Mars2, SLI GTX 480s, and SDD. The computer could play crysis 3, 2, and 1 at the same time.
@Hydra yep, a mate of mine just bought an old AMD FX-55 for ~$50 off eBay. Six years ago when it launched it was >$800.
Same will happen with this.
@WilliamNighthawk
It would also be able to make toast, bake cookies, reheat pizza, etc...
@GoFish Maybe in someone else's hands. I am a self proclaimed cooling master. I can make a computer that should burn hotter than the sun idle at 50c. I am creative and innovative in my cooling ways and will think outside the box to get the coolest temperature. I don't care if I have to rip a wall out of my house, build on a tiny room, place a giant fan on the ceiling and exhaust on the bottom of the building and call it my cooling room. I can make a computer cold as ice to the touch (on the outside).
@WilliamNighthawk
Ok...
i think this will make shut my dad's mouth. he's always complaining about how slow his computer is. too bad it's almost $1000. :P
@koolerz1569 What is your dad doing with his computer anyway?
@koolerz1569
tell your dad to stop hitting the midget porn sites and to clean off all the malware then it'll run normal speeds.
how does this differ than the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition i7-980X Hexa-core 3.33GHz Processor?
@OC Technophile
You mean other than the obvious .13 gigahertz less?
@OC Technophile This one isn't very extreme...
@OC Technophile
Slightly lower speed, and the 980X has an unlocked multiplier
just sayin.
Thats a really nice price, 2 car notes :D
This costs more than the rest of my computer together. :( Oddly, I'm thinking I might be able to budget this, a new motherboard, and new RAM out. Maybe if I start eating the cardboard boxes and packing peanuts...
well i can get a fairly decent laptop that will last ~2-3years for the type of games i would play on the go....
i mean a decent i5 core laptop will run me around $900 and if i splurge on the i7 duo with 6gigs of ram at a 500gig HDD with 7200rpm i will be looking at ~$1,100
why would i ever pay ~1,000 with tax for a frikken proccessor that will last 5-6years when i can get a new computer every few years that will match it for the things i will be needing to do.
BTW for people planning to buy this i am guessing your sporting:
hexacore i7
24gigs of RAM....its possible actually i thin 32gig is possible
2 1TB SDD, dual booted on 2 HDDs for linux and W7
1TB external HDD
4 top ninvida cards, running optimus on top
basically THAT machine you will want to put insurance on becuase you would be spending a whopping 5kG+ on that
@23542354 Insurance? My company dose not insure it's PCs do you think I would? XD
@23542354
Do you even know how much a 1TB SSD is? And you want 2 of em...
Yeah, this is the same processor the iPhone 4 uses...meh
time to upgrade and sell my car ....
everything is done on the internet anyway
I like new stuff .. but $900 for a CPU these days are a little
high. I'll pass on this one and wait for AMD to release a
more consumer friendly version of this type CPU ...
Also, I prefer AMD CPUs and GPUs these days ... I've got
my plan for a major upgrade in Dec .. anyway .. when the
new ATI graphics cards get released... My sister is already
looking for her system refresh too ... My old system got to
go some where ... :)
Finally! I've been looking to blow $900!
900$ for a cpu... f**k you intel. Ripoff, I don't care how fast it is.
best of all, it's shipping free!!! LOL
Don't shoot me for this one but please clarify: all cores run at 3.2ghz or is that spread out among all cores?
@Socr209905
All cores run individually at the rated clock speed. All that 1.6GHz*2 = 3.2GHz you see on ebay is crap.
Just out of curiosity... except for games, which other programs in one's daily arsenal use more than 2-3 cores to process?
I've a quad core and still waiting for those promised programs that utilized multi-core, to land in my system.
For me, the only 2 programs other than any game that uses my quad-core to any degree, is a video-convertor and my disk defragmentor....
@darkmax My 3D apps support it. SWEEET.
Don't worry Newegg, I won't need you to make sure I buy
I still think it's funny how Intel went from one confusing naming scheme ("core 2" quad core processors) to another even larger quagmire.
I wonder how many virtual machines I'll be able to squeeze out of those cores? 24? 48? That bad boy will make for one helluva lab for me.
@Sgt Beavis : right? Mmmm, get the AMD 6 core & maybe my VMs can get more than a core each? :)
i don't get it...
i7 970 has 6 cores and 12mb cache,
i7 975 extreme has only 4 cores and 8 mb cache
and i7 980X extreme has again 6 cores and 12mb cache
and the 970 was the last one that was released of these three...???
Sweet! So glad I went with a 1366 motherboard. I'm not paying 900 bones for this hexa core, but I'm sure there will be slightly cheaper models. That will make a nice upgrade from the core i-7 920 when the time comes. I hope the hexa cores are as easy to overclock.
Ahhh man I can only buy 10, shucks.
Great - what does it take for them to start supporting USB 3.0 - I'm not buying any new motherboards without USB 3.0 - could care less about light speed or ludacrous speed - I'm sure it is nice but I don't see any flash, headsets or phones that will use lightspeed for recharging.
Will it run Cyrsis?