Quote Originally Posted by [XC] gomeler View Post
Intel screwed themselves from a marketing standpoint by naming it the Gulftown EE chip as the Core i7 980x. Naming a gulftown part as a Core i7 970 would be utterly confusing, the part names would indicate the Core i7 975 being a better component while if the 970 is a gulftown it'd hands down be the better part. What a cluster if true.
When i think about this , Intel screwed themselves by choosing 9xxx as naming schema to start with. What would you call the next step ... like this new Core i7 980x then? a i7 1080?