Gizmodo

FAQ. Include # before tag:
#tips,
#dealzmodo,
#rumors,
#broken,
#iphoneapps,
#apple,
etc.

New York, 2:33 AM
Mon Nov 30
13 posts in the last 24 hours

FR | IT | DE | SP | JP | AU | BR

Gizmodo Team

Tip your editors:
tips@gizmodo.com

Editorial Director:
Brian Lam | Email | Twitter

Editor:
Jason Chen
Email | AIM | Twitter

Features Editor:
Wilson Rothman
Email | Twitter

Senior Contributing Editors:
Jesus Diaz
Email | AIM | Twitter
Mark Wilson, Reviews
Email | AIM | Twitter

Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchanan
Email | AIM | Twitter
Adam Frucci
Email | Twitter
Sean Fallon
Email | Twitter
Jack Loftus
Email | Twitter
John Herrman
Email | Twitter
Dan Nosowitz
Email
Chris Mascari
Email
Danny Allen
Email | Twitter
Rosa Golijan
Email | Twitter
Chris Jacob
Email

Columnist:
Brendan I. Koerner

Interns:
Don Nguyen
Email
Kyle VanHemert
Email

Comment Intern:
Nick Ellenoff | Email

Heroes and Friends

Comment Account Questions:
Comments@gizmodo.com

posts about #corei7reviews more →
Intel's Core i7 Chips Get Prodded, Poked and Compared: Good, But Expensive

Your version of Internet Explorer is not supported. Please upgrade to the most recent version in order to view comments.

Dsmvwl Admin Promote to frontpage Approve user Ban user ×

Kakkoister
11/03/08

In reply to Intel's Core i7 Chips Get Prodded, Poked and Compared: Good, But Expensive
If anyone's thinking of getting one of these. Your better choice would be the cheap ass 920, and some decent cooling. You'll be able to crank that sucker up to the speed of the most expensive one with ease. And even past if you have good enough cooling.

Quite a few benchmarks have shown this. It performs pretty much the same as the Extreme when overclocked up to it's speed.
Reply

Kakkoister was starred Kakkoister was unstarred

soggy_cheerio
11/03/08

@Kakkoister: Actually, with the exception of the 965, these things aren't supposed to be very overclockable.
Reply

soggy_cheerio was starred soggy_cheerio was unstarred

soggy_cheerio
11/03/08

In reply to Intel's Core i7 Chips Get Prodded, Poked and Compared: Good, But Expensive
Easily the most exciting processor release in years. This thing is a beast. Unfortunately, the rest of the platform requirements(MB, RAM) are cost prohibitive.

For what it's worth, there are far better reviews than the Bit-Tech article hitting the pipes.
Reply

soggy_cheerio was starred soggy_cheerio was unstarred

Earlier discussions Other discussions Show all discussions Show featured discussions only Start a new discussion