Core i7 Extreme Edition 965

[Darren1981]

What are your thoughts on this ?

Should once out i upgrade ? currently using a E8400 but these babies look nice and im sure are going to put my pc in the "old / Cant play anything" category.

http://www.mobile01.com/print.php?f=174&t=780467

And im guessing they wont be cheap lol.

[mikeyakame]

It'll be $999usd standard XE price.

Do you need it? Do you want it? Do you have any use for it? Unless you are doing heavy multithreading tasks like video encoding, 3d rendering/modelling, cad/cam, image editing, etc you probably won't benefit all that much from it over the equivalent 45nm quad core of the current gen. By all means if you have the money to blow and just one go for it. It'll be an amazing chip and I know i'll be picking up the 965 when it arrives for multithreading work!

[Darren1981]

yes have started video editing actually and coming from a single core to a dual there difference in time is great, but i wonder and hear alot about nothing taking full use of 4 cores, so was just putting it out there.

[mikeyakame]

Then you will surely have good purpose for this! I used to do heavy video encoding, not so much these days but four cores definitely makes a huge difference even when I do compiling. I personally find dual cores really laggy in comparison with the general multitasking I do.

[DStealth]

I've got it here too:





No mobo still







Name: Core i7 965 Extreme Edition
Lithography Process: 45 nm
Cores: 4
Threads: 8
Frequency: 3.2 GHz
Cache: 256 KB L2/core and 8 MB shared L3
Memory Controller: Triple channel DDR3 800/1066/1333 MHz
Bus Interface: 1x 6.4 GT/s QuickPath
TDP: 130W
Socket: LGA1366
Release date: oct 2008

[overcrash]

I've got it here too:





No mobo still







Name: Core i7 965 Extreme Edition
Lithography Process: 45 nm
Cores: 4
Threads: 8
Frequency: 3.2 GHz
Cache: 256 KB L2/core and 8 MB shared L3
Memory Controller: Triple channel DDR3 800/1066/1333 MHz
Bus Interface: 1x 6.4 GT/s QuickPath
TDP: 130W
Socket: LGA1366
Release date: oct 2008

Dude I will come and bench with you as soon as the mobo comes

[G.Foyle]

is it a coincidence that Nehalem ES SPEC number is "Q1CK", only an 'U' away from "QUICK"?

[vcp-cur]

nehalem, this looks like the halo hype all over again..

if you're a gamer, nehalem is not worth it
if you play around a lot with movies etc etc like video editing etc etc, nehalem is not worth it, Q6600 up to Q9650 is more than enough
if you just surf the net for fun and read some news,chat a little, nehalem is not worth it.

nehalem is ALL about the e-penis for now... and before anyone tells me that its future proof.. so was the Q6600 when it came out, are we there yet? hello futureeeeeee..NOT!

but oh well...ofcourse it'll be nice to have top of the top... but it's not worth it at ALL right now.. 1 out of 30 will fully benefit from nehalem and be like "damn,I can now do this in 5 minutes instead of 7 minutes"

and suddenly,once nehalem pops out, every other chip will fall under the "old/can't play anything" category...they're playing with our minds people..

[Blauhung]

nehalem, this looks like the halo hype all over again..

if you're a gamer, nehalem is not worth it
if you play around a lot with movies etc etc like video editing etc etc, nehalem is not worth it, Q6600 up to Q9650 is more than enough
if you just surf the net for fun and read some news,chat a little, nehalem is not worth it.

nehalem is ALL about the e-penis for now... and before anyone tells me that its future proof.. so was the Q6600 when it came out, are we there yet? hello futureeeeeee..NOT!

but oh well...ofcourse it'll be nice to have top of the top... but it's not worth it at ALL right now.. 1 out of 30 will fully benefit from nehalem and be like "damn,I can now do this in 5 minutes instead of 7 minutes"

and suddenly,once nehalem pops out, every other chip will fall under the "old/can't play anything" category...they're playing with our minds people..

Exactly, this community is mostly centered around the latest and greatest. True most applications will not make use of the power that is contained, but it's something new to play with and for most of us this is a hobby, and we all love new toys.

[vcp-cur]

my point exactly

[snowymainer]

DStealth, Sweet pics. did the LGA1366 CPU felt little bit heavier then LGA 775's ? I can imagine so. it looks sweet and it looks like I will bite for Nehalem platform. ( I never got a single LGA 775 ) so I am skipping that generation to this one

EDIT: how many trannies? I know its 410M for Dual Core and its 820M for Quads.

[smilingcrow]

nehalem, this looks like the halo hype all over again..
if you play around a lot with movies etc etc like video editing etc etc, nehalem is not worth it, Q6600 up to Q9650 is more than enough
nehalem is ALL about the e-penis for now
but oh well...ofcourse it'll be nice to have top of the top... but it's not worth it at ALL right now.. 1 out of 30 will fully benefit from nehalem and be like "damn,I can now do this in 5 minutes instead of 7 minutes"

Judging by the preliminary preview on Anandtech Nehalem looks like a really solid improvement over Core 2 Quad and that’s not hype. I don’t see the point in comparing it with Core 2 Duo and complaining that it’s not significantly better as it’s aimed at a different market segment. If YOU don’t need more than 2 cores that doesn’t mean others don’t and the performance gain from as you say going from 7 to 5 minutes for a multimedia task is a very significant gain.
I agree that not many people will actually harness all its power but for those that will it’s a very significant upgrade.

[BNDMOD]

Can any one tell me the dimension of whole mount of mother? LGA 1366 80x80mm?

[mikeyakame]

Exactly, this community is mostly centered around the latest and greatest. True most applications will not make use of the power that is contained, but it's something new to play with and for most of us this is a hobby, and we all love new toys.

heh. Honestly I'm looking forward to it half for the new toy factor

[AuDioFreaK39]

is it a coincidence that Nehalem ES SPEC number is "Q1CK", only an 'U' away from "QUICK"?

in contrast, that reminds me of the Q6600 G0 SLACR's

they're all slackers!