It's the new name for Nehalem. It's basically about 30% bigger and about 30% better. It's a native quad core with an integrated memory controller. Basically they've taken a page out of AMD's book and they've make it a whole lot... faster!

This topic is to discuss anything to do with i7, so I'm going to start with this:

Swiftech have announced that they have created an i7 compatible waterblock already! It's called the Apogee GTZ and it looks a lot like this:

I read a preview last night and it's some insane stuff. Should be really interesting when it's properly released (they were testing on a borked motherboard).

An announcement on Fudzilla today says that all i7's at 2.6GHz, 2.93GHz and 3.2GHz will have a TDP of 130W. For the 3.2GHz part that is good, but for the 2.6GHz as well? That's not so good.

The same TDP for different clocks? That's a bit odd.

Maybe it's to do with this fixed voltage thing for the memory controller?

Hmm, could be, but surely the draw (current) would be less.

I guess it's just an unconfirmed rumour.

No, it looks like this problem is here to stay...

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... ge-nehalem

Now that's crippled what would ahve been a fantastic product. On the plus side, we should get more voltage efficient memory from now on.

is it still gonna be lga775?

No, it's completely different. It's LGA1366, it's a rectangular shape. A big reason for this is the onboard memory controller, which makes it incompatible with old chips even if it did fit.

They're out and they're good.

Very good

I can't help but feel extremely unexcited about i7.

I won't be upgrading to this until something better is released.

I think they will be worth it in a new computer when they release the budget models. Also, should be pretty good for servers.