Intel Core i7 Review Thread

[Jacky]

omgwtfbbq@ the overclocking protection. Yikes. Those of us who pointed out this possibility were ridiculed, and now it turns out we were right (in at least considering the possibility) after all. Built right into the chip. Damn. However, even with the overclocking protection it looks like the new design beats Core2 most of the time. This sort of came out of nowhere. No leaks on the overclocking limits. Looks like Intel is doing a pretty good job with leak control these days. It's really too bad that Intel is going back to being antagonistic to overclockers. Maybe AMD will take advantage of this if they can ever close the huge gap in performance. Although it won't help them financially since overclockers represent only the tiniest fraction of the market. Our loss won't even be a blip on their financial reports.

There is no overclocking protection! There were lots of overclocks leaked prior to launch btw. You simply did not pay attention and based your conclusion on what.. tom's review?
I skimmed like 10 reviews and there is not a single word of any "overclocking protection". There was something mentioned about downclocking depending on temperature, which is fine, Intel does not want you to fry your CPU.
The 940 and 920 i7 does not overclock a lot because of the multi, if you want to call that overclocking protection...
Maybe I missed it, but the i7 940 can be overclocked to 4ghz ?!

X58 + i7 920 + 6GB DDR3 is more than twice expensive than P35 + Q6700 + 6GB DDR2; almost twice expensive than P45 + Q9450 + 6GB DDR2.

You will have to sell your old stuff and you'll have to pay more than the 10% you for the upgrade you are talking about. Another question is do you really need faster PC?

Most reviews conclude that tri-channel provides close to zero benefits, is there a reason why people still think they need tri-channel?