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10-15-2009, 12:11 PM #1
Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
Gizmodo.com has a really good article just posted a few mins ago that helps explain the Intel CPU lineup. It is a pretty short read and very easy to understand, so I hope everyone will take a moment and read through. I think Intel has really confused everyone here lately and this is a good article to help cut through the mess
Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
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10-15-2009, 12:36 PM #2
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Re: Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
Nice read. My Core2Quad should last me until i7 drops in price.
My next upgrade is def going to be the video card.
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10-15-2009, 02:30 PM #3
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Re: Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
What they didn't address is how/whether an i7 in socket 1366 differs from an i7 in socket 1156. I'm looking to build in the next month and need to make a decision.
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10-15-2009, 03:36 PM #4
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Re: Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
I believe that 1156 can only address dual channel RAM while 1336 can do triple channel. I could be wrong.
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10-15-2009, 05:12 PM #5
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Re: Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
Yes as far as I know the i5 only uses dual channel while the i7 uses triple, also the i5 as far as I know is not hyprethreaded, the i7 shows up as 8 cores, the i5 as 4.
Core i7 also has a second quick path interconnect that connects to a second cpu if you had a board that supports dual processors.
Also when the core i9 comes out with it's 6 cores it will use the same socket as i7 and may be able to run on current socket 1366 x58 boards.
If you do 3d modelling/animation, video/sound decoding etc the i7 would be the one to go for, for everything else the i5 will do just fine.
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10-16-2009, 03:34 AM #6
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Re: Giz Explains: Intel's Entire Confusing Armada of Chips
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...i5,2410-2.html
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