Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Jimbo View Post
A friend of mine who has been testing i7 says gaming performance is 'disappointing' compared to his previous Intel OC results, and that the chip runs up against the 130W TDP protection (and clocks down) pretty quickly. When he turns off TDP protection, the chip gets hotter than a firecracker.
disappointing?
Overclocking a quadcore 2.67ghz to almost 4.4ghz bootable on stock cooling is disappointing? I can't remember any other cpu architecture other then wolfdale (dualore) doing that.

If you compare Nehalem with a Kentsfield both on 3.6ghz Nehalem will be faster and won't get hot. If you compare a Nehalem with a Yorkfied, both on 4ghz, the Nehalem gets hotter. But who cares? Nehalem is still faster.

Even when Deneb won't get as hot as Nehalem, its allot slower actually.
In the end temps don't matter, but the performace and price does.

I will buy a Yorkfield because I already own 4gb ddr2 and a P35 board, or I will spend more money and get a Phenom2. If I had the money, I would buy Nehalem.