Reviews - Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition: piling on the pounds

[HEXUS]

What do you get with 3.33GHz clock-speed, four cores, and eight threads?

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[Brewster0101]

Nothing more than a rip of product. No value, no point, I'd be surprised if Intel shift that many of them. Who does have £900 to spend on one CPU.... People with deep pockets I think have better things to concern themselves with at the moment.

[this_is_gav]

And people who know no better, so think the better the machine they get now, the longer it will last (which is obviously true to an extent, but not at this end of the market).

They'll ship plenty through OEMs. No where near the non-EE chips of course, but some people do buy the fastest consumer CPU out there, and they're not all winners of the lottery.

People pay the premium for the fastest tech in any single area. Has that ever changed?

[sawyen]

The fact that fast processors are probably a vaguely valid reason for people to buy say 3-4 years back was pretty ok given....

1. If you're intending to be wanting the maximum performance you can get on a household based PC
2. Commercial/enterprise multiprocessor class entry is too steep...

But now these two factors don't match anymore..

For one thing, 1 grand can easily get you 2 slower Nehalem based Xeons + the motherboard

Which if you add them up, in 90% of the cases, dual Xeons give you more performance.. 16 sod'ing threads.. I'm sure I can live with running 2x more things but only wait maybe 5 sec longer for each task to finish...

Its more willie waving than anything else to be honest...

[Jimbo75]

Dear god how the hell can this get 70% at that price. Staggering bias towards intel on Hexus.

[ixos]

Rediculous price. 70% is way too high too. Guess there are some that would buy it though. Not me for sure!

[moogle]

What would be more nice to see is a another 920 chip overclocked at 975 speeds to see the difference, which I'm guessing would be near zero. I've asked for a test like that on a few other reviews before but they never do it...

[Philipp]

What would be more nice to see is a another 920 chip overclocked at 975 speeds to see the difference, which I'm guessing would be near zero. I've asked for a test like that on a few other reviews before but they never do it...

There wouldn’t be a difference, further more depending on how you clock the 920 the QPI will be higher offering higher performance....

Its worth remembering that this 975 is a D0 stepping, and they clock to speeds a 920 D0 can only dream about….