You want i7 benches, you got em :D

Edited by Nomak - 21 Oct 2008 at 8:55am

been there seen that, its old and did not have the proper hardware for it.

the q9770 is $1200 on its own, what ever you spend on a q9650 you can spend on the nehalem (if not cheaper) and get better results.

No reason to jump to conclusions till the chip is out with all its components.

i7 is gonna cost less then current penryn. The q9650 is not a an extreme chip, so you are comparing apples with oranges.

you need to compare the q9650 to a Nehalem none extreme chip, which will cost less then current penryn,

the x58 is suppose to cost less then x48.

there is no qx9750 chip there is however a qx9770 chip.

you are assuming an awful lot here.

you are assuming x58 prices.

you are assuming i7 prices.

you are assuming penryn price drops.

lets just let the chip come out and see for a fact what it can do.

the rest is just theories, and the truth is that you can't judge a chip by games only, its was not meant for games, but if you want to run games on it, it can do a great job and it can do better then any other processor, it has no FSB, to me that is enough reason to use it, you can use what ever ram speed you like.

but again thats me, lets not speculate, there is enough speculations. its almost here, lets just wait for the facts

Edited by DST4ME - 21 Oct 2008 at 2:11pm

unlocked multiplier, allows you much better OC, I don't see how that does not effect performance.

1. like I said your problem is that you are converting, the prices are not gonna be the same here.

2. correct.

3. wrong

The Core i7 system was an average 10-20fps faster than the QX9770 powered system. However, certain parts of the game were up to 30-40fps faster using the upcoming CPU which is quite an impressive result

4. again you are speculating prices

with all do respect just because you came to a speculative conclusion, its does not make i7 a bad choice, that would be only true if, you had actual prices and the PC was only for games and the user didn't want the 20 to 40 fps edge that the i7 offers.

again speculating prices and other things and then coming to a definitive conclusion based on those speculation is not a good idea, nor is it conclusive in any which way.

Edited by DST4ME - 22 Oct 2008 at 12:55pm

Originally posted by DST4ME No reason to jump to conclusions till the chip is out with all its components. the rest is just theories, and the truth is that you can't judge a chip by games only, its was not meant for games, but if you want to run games on it, it can do a great job and it can do better then any other processor, it has no FSB, to me that is enough reason to use it, you can use what ever ram speed you like.

All of the components are available already... Just not to you or the general public yet.

There still is a front side bus, and you are actually limited to 1333mhz ram since going over 1.65v for the dram voltage can/will fry the chip, so until higher clocked ram comes outwith lower voltages, you are stuck with either ddr3 1066 or 1333.

Originally posted by venom All of the components are available already... Just not to you or the general public yet. There still is a front side bus, and you are actually limited to 1333mhz ram since going over 1.65v for the dram voltage can/will fry the chip, so until higher clocked ram comes outwith lower voltages, you are stuck with either ddr3 1066 or 1333.

Originally posted by DST4ME Core i7 has no Voltage limitations IDF Taipei: Independant memory Voltage Despite everything we've heard so far, it seems like Intel hasn't implemented a Voltage limitation on the Core i7 processors, nor on the memory and the two aren't linked to each other. We've heard reports of some boards reaching 2.2 or even as much as 2.4V on the memory, so those of you out there with high-performance DDR3 memory have nothing to worry about. Furthermore, it seems like the 1.65V limitations for the Core i7 CPUs is a safety precaution, as the CPUs are unlikely to die straight away if you go beyond this, but it will shorten the life span of the processors. Intel doesn't really seem to know at what Voltage the life span will be severely shortened and the 1.65V limit is a blanket safe zone so that people don't end up frying their processors. Turbo Boost will not modify the CPU Voltage and it even sounded like there's no need to tweak the CPU Voltage for the average overclocker and that this is something that would only be needed to be done by extreme overclockers and the Intel people we spoke to sounded very pleased with the overclocking results of the Core i7 processors. It's still about a month to go before anyone will be able to get their hands on the new CPUs and actually start frying them, but we have a feeling that most people won't be having any issues, especially as there's no correlation between the CPU and memory Voltage with should please a lot of people that have been thinking about upgrading to the new platform.

good day venom   

which is exactly why I keep saying lets wait and see what everybody can do.