News - Intel's hexa-core Core i7 980X processor appears at retail

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Gulftown is on its way, but once you see the price you'll probably wish you'd started saving sooner.

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This thing is going to boost a lot of e-peen!

Why does anybody pay for such things? usually the top end is 10% better but at least twice the cost of the next best.

Either way those who buy it at these prices bring it closer to getting a realistic price, so carry on.

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Originally Posted by Percy1983

Why does anybody pay for such things?

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Research via multi-threaded simulations
Overclocking world records
Too much money
Lack of trouserware endowment

I expect it to find a sweetspot at £750-£800. Doubt it'll go down from there.

*scratches head*

My quad core runs at 3.33 or faster. How will another 2 cores make even the slighest whiff of a hint of a shade of a trace of difference in real life?

Im more interested as to the prices of the displaced CPU's down the list.
Intel seems to have abandoned the practice of all prices moving down one step on the release of a each higher spec CPU.
With AMD slowly catching up I cant help but think Intels greed makes for angry customers and may backfire on them.
I bought my E8600 over 18months ago for £180 GB and at the same shop its currently gone up to £226 GBP.
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I thought this was standard practice from Intel - the extreme editions were always $999, and have always been overpriced for those with more money than sense.

Quick check on Scan - current i7 extreme is the 975, priced at £810. Haven't got one, but I understand it's beyond easy to clock the 920's up to the 3.33ghz of the 975 and save yourself roughly £600. No doubt the argument is that the 975 could overclock even higher with ease, but that's an expensive few extra mhz.

Now against the i7 975 extreme edition, this 6 core one actually makes a hell of a lot more sense - you're getting an extra 2 cores rather than a small bump in speed or (possibly) a higher overclock. Please note that I said more sense, but that's as against something that's clearly insane:mrgreen:. The sensible thing for normal people will always be to wait 6-12 months. Personally, I can't say I can blame Intel for taking advantage of the few people who are willing to pay well over the odds, for whatever reason. If they've got the cash to spend on one of these, they're clearly not that vulnerable

Superkey6969- as for price drops on the rest of the line, much as it pains me to say it, personally I can't blame them for taking advantage of the lack of competition from AMD at the higher end.

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Originally Posted by Shooty*

How will another 2 cores make even the slighest whiff of a hint of a shade of a trace of difference in real life?

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Heavily multithreaded programs will lap up the extra cores - you'll see an almost 50% performance gain in anything that can be processed in parallel...

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Originally Posted by Superkev6969

I bought my E8600 over 18months ago for £180 GB and at the same shop its currently gone up to £226 GBP.

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Isn't that more likely because new s775 CPUs will be in very short order now Intel have completed their top-to-bottom Core iX line up? And since the E8600 is pretty much the top end of s775 Dual Cores, it's the most desirable upgrade in that line so it's bound to have its price unrealistically upped. It's like s939 Athlon x2 - they are currently maintaining a really high 2nd hand resale price because they're the top end upgrade for those systems...

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Originally Posted by Shooty*

*scratches head*

My quad core runs at 3.33 or faster. How will another 2 cores make even the slighest whiff of a hint of a shade of a trace of difference in real life?

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During the multi classifier, multi biometric system runs for my research I max out my quad core and wish I could afford something better

*checks he's real*

as it turns out I exist in real life!

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Originally Posted by circuitmonkey

*checks he's real*

as it turns out I exist in real life!

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No you don't - you're just the product of my deranged imagination :mrgreen: (as is everyone else, so no personal offence meant...)

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Originally Posted by GaryRW

No you don't - you're just the product of my deranged imagination :mrgreen: (as is everyone else, so no personal offence meant...)

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ok, well next time can you imagine me with a hexa-core cpu rather than a quad?

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Originally Posted by GaryRW

(as is everyone else, so no personal offence meant...)

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Collective offence taken ;)

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Originally Posted by circuitmonkey

ok, well next time can you imagine me with a hexa-core cpu rather than a quad?

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Surely you'd want 2 of them in a dual socket board? Tell you what, I'll imagine a box that also includes 40 SSD's in some extreme RAID array, and with dual 5970's with a 6 screen eyefinity setup, delivered by one of these (http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22839).

Anything else take your fancy?

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Originally Posted by GaryRW

Surely you'd want 2 of them in a dual socket board? Tell you what, I'll imagine a box that also includes 40 SSD's in some extreme RAID array, and with dual 5970's with a 6 screen eyefinity setup, delivered by one of these (http://lifestyle.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=22839).

Anything else take your fancy?

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HOW DARE YOU INSULT ME!

ATI Graphics, really!

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how about dual GTX 495's?

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Originally Posted by borandi

Lack of trouserware endowment

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Short legs?

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Originally Posted by circuitmonkey

how about dual GTX 495's?

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Not sure my imagination stretches to a PSU and an air conditioning unit that big ;)

Actually, I reckon the fans on that personal helicopter thingy would probably just about cool dual 495's :mrgreen:

(ps - only ever had nvidia cards myself, so hopefully you'll forgive above comments)

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Originally Posted by Shooty*

*scratches head*

My quad core runs at 3.33 or faster. How will another 2 cores make even the slighest whiff of a hint of a shade of a trace of difference in real life?

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Bah - I hate unimaginative questions like this. Just because *you* can't think of something where this would make a difference, doesn't mean that it won't make a difference to other people.

Two more cores equals 50% better performance for what I want to do. It's a pretty major improvement in my eyes.