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.
As if they haven't already.....it should be plain and simple:
i3 = Clarkbar
i5 = Lynnfield
i7 = Nehalem
i9 = Gulftown

Why do they make things so confusing?