Mini Review of intel core i7

[j.o.s.h.1408]

http://uneit.com/2008/09/24/intel-co...-in-real-test/

wow now this is the baby i been waiting for!! bring it on!!

edit: overclocked benchmarks http://uneit.com/2008/09/24/a-little...rclockability/

[shaithis]

What an over-hyped "mini review". Sounds like its been written by an Intel zealot and/or Intel PR.

Synthetic benchmark after synthetic benchmark, plus the comments near the end about the game performance made me laugh hard.

The only benchmark that looks "next gen" is the WinRAR benchmark.....

[kalniel]

Well if you ignore the comments the benchmarks are hardly impressive IMO. Multi-threaded benchmarks will of course benefit from the doubling of logical 'processors' in core i7, while single threaded tests show results from +/- 10-20%. Not exactly wow.

[GSte]

Looks like they overclock well though compared to the current 45nm quads. I think they look good.

[shaithis]

I'll be surprised if they clock much further then current Quads.....

[Clunk]

I'm also looking forward to these, hopefully they can improve on the last lot which were a bit mediocre.

[Powderhound]

What is the precise relevance of a graphics API to the processor?

[sjbuck]

I see little difference.....

[j.o.s.h.1408]

I see little difference.....

in games yes but games are GPU bound mate. a dual and quad core 2 dont make any difference at all in gaming also

[handscombmp]

What i'll be more intrested in is how well they overclock and how you go about doing it as aren't they changing something to do with the memory speed (i'm taking a pretty random guess so don't hold me against it) so you can't overclock how you normally do it.
And as for the bit about games. It sounds like they're not worth it. A good quad will probaly do just as well.

[TheAnimus]

What is the precise relevance of a graphics API to the processor?

Actually surprisingly quite a lot.

Underclock your CPU and watch the framerate fall. Obviously it gets to a point where the CPU is been bottlenecked, so it has little effect, but it is still a very important component.

[Powderhound]

Actually surprisingly quite a lot.

Underclock your CPU and watch the framerate fall. Obviously it gets to a point where the CPU is been bottlenecked, so it has little effect, but it is still a very important component.

I suppose, but DX10 isn't immediately going to allow the Core i7 to redefine how games play.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

GPU BOUND people GPU!!

[j.o.s.h.1408]

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5...mlaunchem7.png

november 17th as the release date?

[dangel]

I'm a bit 'meh' on these - i'm not CPU-starved right now and the prospect of forking out for new CPU plus motherboard, plus rather pricey DDR3 doesn't appeal.