Intel Core i9

[Turbocom]

Apparently there is an Intel Core i9 coming sometime in the first quarter of 2010. I heard about this and decided not buying one of the new Core i7's

Have you heard anything?


http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/leaked-intel-core-i9-chip-makes-its-way-to-ebay/
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,695432/Core-i7-980X-aka-Core-i9-Intels-6-core-desktop-CPU-pictured/News/

I've modified my 2010 computer build word document and trust me this is on the highly needed part. Now I just need to wait to see the Core i9 mobos to see if I show go ahead with the i9 or just got with an i7 like originally planned.

[Recursion]

Heard about it a few months back, 6 cores or something I believe?

[Stephen!]

The only core i9's coming in the first half of the year are the extreme editions which are going to cost £700+.

[Chippiewill]

Apparently there is an Intel Core i9 coming sometime in the first quarter of 2010. I heard about this and decided not buying one of the new Core i7's

Have you heard anything?



I've modified my 2010 computer build word document and trust me this is on the highly needed part. Now I just need to wait to see the Core i9 mobos to see if I show go ahead with the i9 or just got with an i7 like originally planned.

They're not i9s, they are Extreme edition i7s. They use the same hardware, chipset e.t.c. The internal name is 'Golf Town'. The whole point is to take advantage of Hyper threading (That means that there are 12 threads altogether)

[Stephen!]

They're not i9s, they are Extreme edition i7s. They use the same hardware, chipset e.t.c. The internal name is 'Golf Town'. The whole point is to take advantage of Hyper threading (That means that there are 12 threads altogether)

They're marketed as both at the moment. I don't think they have made a decision

[Recursion]

It is Core i9.

[Stephen!]

Now I just need to wait to see the Core i9 mobos to see if I show go ahead with the i9 or just got with an i7 like originally planned.

Core i9's will use the 1366 socket which has been out for a while. A decent one will set you back about £190, on top of the £700 odd pounds for the chip itself.

[Jahova]

It's just too much money for me.

[Stephen!]

I'm holding back upgrading from Socket 775 until there are some affordable mainstream Six-Core processors.

[HotelUser]

For me it's not a matter of wanting more it would be a matter of needing more. I don't need more than my Core 2 quad. I would like a better graphics card and a SSD, but for the games I play and the things I do even an i5's overkill:P

[N!ck]

I don't think it's all about more Cores unless it's in a server environment. Surely 4 cores is more than enough for normal use and what you want is more umph out of each core as you upgrade?

[Agnostic Bear]

They're not i9s, they are Extreme edition i7s. They use the same hardware, chipset e.t.c. The internal name is 'Golf Town'. The whole point is to take advantage of Hyper threading (That means that there are 12 threads altogether)

1) They are most probably i9s, they're the 6 core processors that use the Nehalem Westmere (Got my architectures mixed up) architecture that Intel will brand as i9
2) It's gulftown
3) The whole point is to have more cores to process stuff with, not HT

[Chippiewill]

I don't think it's all about more Cores unless it's in a server environment. Surely 4 cores is more than enough for normal use and what you want is more umph out of each core as you upgrade?

And that's why they are the 'Extreme Edition', needed only for rendering, compiling and video editing. But also with this one if you oc it then you multiply the number you oc it by with 6, not 4.

Also I think that the 6 Core 1336 Socket processor is i7 extreme because of this (The Images are basically on every single site):

http://images.appleinsider.com/gulftown-091215-1.jpg
http://images.appleinsider.com/gulftown-091215-2.jpg

[Agnostic Bear]

http://images.appleinsider.com/gulftown-091215-1.jpg


That image doesn't look right, why is the 6 core text in a different font than the other stuff, Intel are very good with their consistency.

[Recursion]

That image doesn't look right, why is the 6 core text in a different font than the other stuff, Intel are very good with their consistency.

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Camera Software: Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery14.0.8081.709
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[AgnesIO]

i9 cpu's have been ready to be released for a few years.

Anyway tey will still be ridiculously expensive sadly.

Not that my computer is slow or needs more powerfuly stuff atm? :P

[Agnostic Bear]

i9 cpu's have been ready to be released for a few years.

No they haven't, what are you talking about?

[AgnesIO]

No they haven't, what are you talking about?


Oh looks like you are wrong.

I was at a conference with some of the top scientists in the worlds a month or two ago.

A guy that deals with computers and stuff was saying that virtually all the technology that was released have been planned for years and years, but the cost of making the technology means until the cost of the parts go down, it is not worth releasing.

[Markeh]

I wouldn't mind an i9/7, but funds restrict me a bit. I mean, I'm still using a Socket 462 for christs sake.

[Recursion]

Oh looks like you are wrong.

I was at a conference with some of the top scientists in the worlds a month or two ago.

A guy that deals with computers and stuff was saying that virtually all the technology that was released have been planned for years and years, but the cost of making the technology means until the cost of the parts go down, it is not worth releasing.

Proof or it didn't happen

[AgnesIO]

Proof or it didn't happen

I will look for the booklet with his name and stuff :)

EDIT: This is the guy that told us about it:

Professor Dave Cliff
As well as being a high-flying academic at the Universities of Sussex, Southampton, and MIT he has also been a research scientist for Hewlett-Packard and for Deutsche Bank. He is now Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, and Director of a £14m
5-year research initiative. He is author on over 70 academic publications, inventor on 15 patents; and he has undertaken extensive consultancy work. What matters here is that not only is he at the cutting edge of amazing new developments in computer science - some of them so astonishing that they are scarcely within the realm of the human imagination - but he also has an exceptional capacity for conveying this excitement to audiences.

[Chippiewill]

Proof or it didn't happen

Intel have 48 core processors with the full x86 Architecture.


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It's been watermarked :rolleyes:

Basically every site I come across says i7 and not i9, I have come across two websites which said i9 and even then it had only popped up on google because of image names.

[Recursion]

Google around people, no one knows wether Core i9 is seperate or if it just a rebranded Core i7