Core i7 950 to be replaced by 960

Core i7 950 to be replaced by 960

In Q4 2009

Intel has once again changed its mind about its top of the market line-up. The company has just launched Core i7 975 Extreme edition and Core i7 950 top performance SKU and it already has plans to replace it in Q4.


According to Intel's current plans, Core i7 960 comes in Q4 2009 and it should replace Core i7 950 and coexist with Lynnfield clocked at 2.93GHz, a CPU that still misses its brand.

Core i7 960 will run at 3.2GHz, but with 4.8 GT/s bus speed, has 8MB of L3 cache and its maximum turbo overclocking speed of single core is 3.46GHz. The CPU has the same 130W TDP as well as official support for only DDR3 800 and 1066 but as we said before, this is something to do with all Bloomfield CPUs rather than a single CPU glitch.

Core i7 960 is basically a crippled version of Core i7 965 as the 960 has the bus speed limited to 4.8GT/s compared to 6.4GT/s with Core i7 965 and the new 960 won't be multiplier unlocked. We suspect that the performance difference between Core i7 950 clocked at 3.06GHz and Lynnfield quad clocked at 2.93GHz was not big enough, and therefore Intel has to quickly replace Core i7 950.

lol the current 950's performance is too close to the i5 coming out soon, so they needed to make the gap a little bigger so they took a 965 and limited its qpi to 4.8GT/s and made its multiplier locked.

lol thats how it is its happened to all of us and as long as we buy PCs it will happen again and again, you think we would learn our lesson

The 920 will also be discontinued from what i've heard.

you know personally i think this is all a bit dumb i doubt their will be that much perfomance difference at all wahts the point i think all they needed was a 920 and a 975. i really think this is just something to make users who dont look up information spend more cash im sure that the 960 oc will do very little vs a 950 or even 920 oc to the same speed. next they gonna come out with a 930 and say something dumb like the AMD phenom 2 955 was a little to close for comfort with the 920 so we came up with the 930 to make the diffrence bigger sigh if they put that much effort in the gulftown instead of making the i7 better the gulftown prob already be here and be better than alll expected

if its discontinued it wont be till at least next year but most likely itll be when the gulftown comes out. if theirs an i7 in reg computers its gonna be the 920 so i dont think its going anywhere soon personally i think they intel should cut the crap all they need are the 920 and 975 the 975 for hardcore's and enthusiast and the 920 for every one else