News - Making sense of Intel's Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 brands

[Infinite]

fix'd?

[Funkstar]

Intel keep trying to make things simpler... but don't realise that changing their naming scheme every year actually makes it more complicated no matter what they do.

I bet they have a committee for this.

It started out as a simple idea, but then someone somewhere sugested they add this other little bit of detail, and because that got approved, everyone else started insisting on their own agenda. The result is this.

Either that or they got some civil servants to do it for them

[Fraz]

Is it a typo that there is a 1155 pin socket and a 1156 pin socket in that chart? Or have Intel really released two sockets that only differ by a single pin?!

edit:
Ah... Just seen Infinite's post.

[Fraz]

Either that or they got some civil servants trained(?) monkeys to do it for them

Maybe more accurate?

[kalniel]

fix'd?

Have Intel given you the job yet? They should

[aidanjt]

fix'd?

Protip: PNG for screenshots. That way people's eyes wont bleed when they look at it.

[Infinite]

Protip: PNG for screenshots. That way people's eyes wont bleed when they look at it.

haha, windows xp paint just fails, will do next time XD

[Funkstar]

Protip: PNG for screenshots. That way people's eyes wont bleed when they look at it.

Hell, even a gif would be better

Oh and Infinite: http://www.getpaint.net/

[danroyle]

only reason i can see for this is to make you buy more when upgrading.

On the upside when i switched my pc on i had a core2quad and p35 board since reading this thread my PC has been instantly upgraded to Core i3 without me having to spend any money.

It's gotta be a good 25,000,000,000% faster now its core i3 woohoo!!!

[AGTDenton]

Does anyone know for definite if the current Motherboards for the i7's will be compatible with the Gulftown chip? The Chipset and Socket appear the same so it looks hopeful.

I quite fancy one of ASUS's Mobo's but would be dissappointed at spending £300 on their top model when it would not support future 32nm chips.

[baius]

I just have no idea what the product managers at Intel are thinking.

Doesn't look as if they even have product 'managers'. Just 'damagers'. "Welcome to the damagement."

So sir, will that be a Core i3 with an LGA775 socket that used to be a Core 2 Duo with two cores no hyperthreading or...? Sir? Where've you gone?

That was some fine writing, snootyjim. You're hilarious.


I still keep thinking, why'd Intel not just call any Nehalem-related parts "Core 3"? If they wanted Westermere to be "different", call it "Core 4".

However, Core 3 would have done till Sandy Bridge (which would be Core 4).

Intel: