Intel's New Processor

[midniteinc]

Hi all,

 

I have just recently purchased the new i7 Intel processor 2.66 ghz and had to buy a new motherboard and memory.

 

After several days of testing, I have been pleasently surprised by it's speed, my question to the forum members is:

 

1) Has anybody else upgraded to this new innovative processor?

 

2) And if so, have you noticed any diffrence to your old processor?

 

midniteinc

[nosisab]

Hi all,

 

I have just recently purchased the new i7 Intel processor 2.66 ghz and had to buy a new motherboard and memory.

 

After several days of testing, I have been pleasently surprised by it's speed, my question to the forum members is:

 

1) Has anybody else upgraded to this new innovative processor?

 

2) And if so, have you noticed any diffrence to your old processor?

 

midniteinc

Albeit I actively boycott Intel for their advances in the TC issues, this new i7 is a real advance in the nowadays computing. It is the paradigm's change where Intel leaves the clock speed quest for better performance by clock architecture (some are saying they are copying AMD now). I hope this will force AMD to go "physical", literally, or the duet Intel-Nvidia will crush the market if they achieve it first. Good for us, consumers, yet it is better if the equilibrium is kept.

 

PS: The good news may be where the speed race is someway gone, Intel's CPUs may lower the prices at least to the AMD's "comrades" figures. Not anymore Intel will advocate bogomips as performance synonymous.

 

PS2: This physical calculations will achieve the peek when CPU and GPU are tuned and cooperative. At least two approaches are under research. 1rst the oneway, where the videocard will respond to certain action and generate the effects accordingly (like the behavior of objects being hit by explosives). In the second, both, CPU-GPU interacts, so the first can use the results as input for the program reactions. Where the first case may be good enough for games, the second revolutions the simulation scenery. The player will have to think twice before striking something under the pain of being hit by debris not scripted in the original program (yet the program must be able to deal with this unpredictable event).

[billypnats]

Its too much $$$ for us average joes, when AMD releases something that could (hopefully) beat i7, the prices will drop, like what happened with 48XX gpus

[midniteinc]

Hi all,

 

I have just recently purchased the new i7 Intel processor 2.66 ghz and had to buy a new motherboard and memory.

 

After several days of testing, I have been pleasently surprised by it's speed, my question to the forum members is:

 

1) Has anybody else upgraded to this new innovative processor?

 

2) And if so, have you noticed any diffrence to your old processor?

 

midniteinc

Albeit I actively boycott Intel for their advances in the TC issues, this new i7 is a real advance in the nowadays computing. It is the paradigm's change where Intel leaves the clock speed quest for better performance by clock architecture (some are saying they are copying AMD now). I hope this will force AMD to go "physical", literally, or the duet Intel-Nvidia will crush the market if they achieve it first. Good for us, consumers, yet it is better if the equilibrium is kept.

 

PS: The good news may be where the speed race is someway gone, Intel's CPUs may lower the prices at least to the AMD's "comrades" figures. Not anymore Intel will advocate bogomips as performance synonymous.

 

PS2: This physical calculations will achieve the peek when CPU and GPU are tuned and cooperative. At least two approaches are under research. 1rst the oneway, where the videocard will respond to certain action and generate the effects accordingly (like the behavior of objects being hit by explosives). In the second, both, CPU-GPU interacts, so the first can use the results as input for the program reactions. Where the first case may be good enough for games, the second revolutions the simulation scenery. The player will have to think twice before striking something under the pain of being hit by debris not scripted in the original program (yet the program must be able to deal with this unpredictable event).

 

To be fair Intel have to a degree mirrored certain aspects of AMD's archetecture, however Intel have done it on a much smaller scale, the introduction of the memory controller on the processor and the ability to integrate in the future a GPU into the main processor, will have an advantage in such hardware as laptops.

 

midniteinc

[midniteinc]

Its too much $$$ for us average joes, when AMD releases something that could (hopefully) beat i7, the prices will drop, like what happened with 48XX gpus

 

I agree, it is quite expensive for now, however like all new hardware when motherboard and memory manufacturers start producing more and more products those prices will fall, and like you said if AMD come up with something similar then Intel will reduce it's prices too.

 

I predict that in two/three months you will be able to purchase all three for around $400-$500

 

midniteinc