Quote Originally Posted by MomijiTMO View Post
Very interesting indeed. I'm liking what I'm seeing but completely understand why some people will skip this gen.
Yes. We have some good and bad things about this new hardware given this review.

Pros:

50% encoding and decoding which means will reduce time waiting.
05 to 10% gaming, a step ahead for Intel and its future 32nm.
8 Threads meaning you can open many programs at once, listen to music leave 50 firefox windows opened, or play games while listening to music, leave the game running without being playing it, this all + reading books while doing other 100 things.
Programs will start a second if not 0.5 faster (responsiveness) like AMD systems.

Cons:

First the cost does not justify the extra performance 05 to 10% for gamers as it is not required if the game runs +70 FPS, most of games uses 2 cores which means if you have more than 2 cores an internal difference will not be seen however an external will be very much appreciated by the busy people.

Not needed yet, give it 2 or 3 years to fully extend.

Triple channel does not justify its price ratio performance, mediocre I would say. We are better off to buy a 2 x 2GB DDR3 Dual channel than 3 x 1GB DDR3 Triple channel.

Why does the motherboard is so expensive?

Do SLI + Crossfire X + DDR3 Triple channel + Revolutionary Phase Power + 8 layer PCB justify its price?

Not for me, however I will still be an early adopter mainly because I need it to work.

The better price performance ratio still being C2 8400 + DDR2 + P45 + 4850 or 4870 and this will surely continue for another 6 months.

So What?

For I7 to be successful it needs an automatic configured program which determines if the opened application will be better with SMT on or off. Who is up for the program PM me. It could make a nice development project given the specs.

Metroid.