Intel Core i9

[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):

[Agnostic Bear]

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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[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?

[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