November 30, 200817 yr Nice short simple explanation of i7 here:http://computershopper.com/feature/what-is-the-core-i7I like the idea of unused cores going to seep to save juice. But I'm really a flea power computing person who's happy with the new Atom desktop machines. Still, would like a genuine dual core Atom machine sometime though.
December 3, 200817 yr puny chips for puny internet pc's talk about something a bit more powerfull such a the phenom quad core!
December 7, 200817 yr Author puny chips for puny internet pc's talk about something a bit more powerfull such a the phenom quad core!Obviously not one of the green lobby then! If you'd read the short article you'd have seen that the i7 is quadcore, and it will scale to eight cores each hyperthreading to look like a 16 core device to the OS. Also the elimination of the FSB should remove a major bottleneck. i7 will likely leave the AMD Phenom in the dust!I'm very much an AMD supporter, they've kept prices low for everyone for a long time, by giving Intel much needed competition. But, unfortunately they are struggling to keep up at both ends of the market these days. They simply don't have the R&D bucks to throw at problems like Intel does. I don't think they even have a workable 45nm process yet.Anyway, it's not what you've got it's what you do with what you've got that matters!
December 7, 200817 yr Obviously not one of the green lobby then! If you'd read the short article you'd have seen that the i7 is quadcore, and it will scale to eight cores each hyperthreading to look like a 16 core device to the OS. Also the elimination of the FSB should remove a major bottleneck. i7 will likely leave the AMD Phenom in the dust!I'm very much an AMD supporter, they've kept prices low for everyone for a long time, by giving Intel much needed competition. But, unfortunately they are struggling to keep up at both ends of the market these days. They simply don't have the R&D bucks to throw at problems like Intel does. I don't think they even have a workable 45nm process yet.Anyway, it's not what you've got it's what you do with what you've got that matters! sorry i missed the artical thought it was going to be a pathetic risk chip with a name like i7! intel chips are junk too, intel chips dont overclock very well. they'll probably cost the earth too and they'll not out amd they never do! phenom is a true quad core not like those core duo rubbish!
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