Intel Core i7 990x

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Yip here comes a Sandy Killer


5ghz on air
http://www.pt1t.eu/?p=303

 

[Diogenes2]

980x Is a Sandy killer.. The only problem is, it also kills your wallet ...

I'll do a little dying for 1/3 the cost...

 

[wwswimming]

980x Is a Sandy killer.. The only problem is, it also kills your wallet ...

I'll do a little dying for 1/3 the cost...

980X might be a Sandy equivalent ... or something ... if they would lower the price on the 980X to about $500 ... PLEASE, INTEL ?

 

[tweakboy]

The prices soo high, and speed doesnt justify, its already super fast.. thx

 

[Anomaly1964]

I'd buy one if they cut the price significantly...$400 or so...

 

[AdamK47]

5GHz on air with the same exact stepping as my 980X? That doesn't make much sense.

 

[Castiel]

Only 5 ghz on air?

 

[Hogan773]

mehhh, $1,000 so you can run your benchmarks and post screenshots of your e-peen, no thanks.

The pricing gulf is really wide and hard to believe. Thankfully they offer Sandy at a reasonable price. For anyone beyond a few select people who really NEED those 2 extra cores, $1,000 vs $300 for a 2600K is ludicrous. Even for those who need it, its pretty ludicrous. If 990x should sell for maybe $499, it would make more sense.

That said, its such a low volume chip and as long as there are a few, ahem, "enthusiasts" willing to spend their money on it, then why not? It is sort of a halo image thing so Intel can always make sure they're top of charts (even though AMD makes it too easy on them).

Perhaps it is also a VEBLEN GOOD (I just spent time with Google trying to recall the definition of this situation - I knew it was a V-something.....) which is when something is more desired by certain people the higher the price is.....

 

[Castiel]

I brought this up in another thread. If Intel is going to price these processors so high after sandy bridge what makes everyone believe Sandy Bridge E is going to be any cheaper? The report of only unlocked extreme chips for 2011 might be accurate.

 

[RaistlinZ]

I long for a mobo that will let me run dual i7-2600k Sandy chips, which would STILL be cheaper, even with mobo, than a single 990X.

 

[Castiel]

I long for a mobo that will let me run dual i7-2600k Sandy chips, which would STILL be cheaper, even with mobo, than a single 990X.

If only the 2600K had 2 QPI's

 

[aigomorla]

5GHz on air with the same exact stepping as my 980X? That doesn't make much sense.

there better bin'd.

and yes i can verify they are, because the 990's are clocking a tad bit better then the AVERAGE 980.

if you have a cherry 980, well intel missed binning it, and your best keeping the 980.

 

[Idontcare]

5GHz on air with the same exact stepping as my 980X? That doesn't make much sense.

Process tweaks in the fab are perpetually happening in the background to manufacturing chips.

The gulftown wafers exiting the fab today, albeit with the same stepping, as the gulftown wafers that exited the fab 6 months ago have almost no chance of having been processed the same way in the fab.

Continuous yield improvement, every company does it but they all have their own internal names for it.

 

[aigomorla]

If only the 2600K had 2 QPI's

lulz..

Why?

u need dual iGPUs? :biggrin:

Lets go Scaling intel style! uhh.. that would be interesting.. Scaling IGPU's with CPU's.

Have 2 IGPU's and 2 CPU's to make it something close to a single 560 + SB.. :O

NaH... Nvidia would call FOUL.

 

[bigbillybear]

I'd buy one if they cut the price significantly...$400 or so...

Yeah otherwise why would you purchase it unless it was close in price to the "still being proven" Sandy Bridges... I just dont see how you could call it a killer when it honestly is so close performance... Im still excited with my I5 2500k...

BBB

 

[SanDiegoPC]

980x Is a Sandy killer.. The only problem is, it also kills your wallet ...

I'll do a little dying for 1/3 the cost...

lol

 

[Grooveriding]

I would pick one up, 980 or 990. But unlike GPUs, with a CPU you can buy one for a 1/4 of the cost that you can overclock to match one of these chips, albeit in a few isolated situations the $1000 chip will be better. I mostly game with my system though and from that respect the difference between an overclocked 920 or 990 is zilch.

That said, I would like one, but at $1000 it's just a waste. $500 I would pay for one of these.

 

[Diogenes2]

...you can buy one for a 1/4 of the cost that you can overclock to match one of these chips,...

Not really.. there are no 6 core Intel chips for 1/4 the price of these chips..

 

[AdamK47]

Spending $1000 for a 980x last April was money well spent for me. Looks like it's going to last until the end of the year until socket 2011 comes out.

 

[Grooveriding]

Not really.. there are no 6 core Intel chips for 1/4 the price of these chips..

Those cores are useless unless you only are benchmarking or running multi-threaded apps that take advantage of it.

For a gaming system, which is my interest, the 920 and 990 are near equal at the same speeds.

I am planning on picking up the top end 2011 chip when those hit though, but for now my current chip at its speed has no upgrade out there for a gaming perspective.

 

[Diogenes2]

Those cores are useless unless you only are benchmarking or running multi-threaded apps that take advantage of it.

That could be said about any multi-core CPU.. Any core is useless if you are not using it ..

 

[hclarkjr]

Yip here comes a Sandy Killer


5ghz on air
http://www.pt1t.eu/?p=303

how did you get cpu-z to have that color?

 

[Rubycon]

how did you get cpu-z to have that color?

That looks like a ROG version similar to EVGA's ELEET.

 

[Sinanju]

Push it to da limit!!

 

[Rubycon]

Push it to da limit!!

Speaking of limits - dual X5690s at *only* 4.16GHz? My 5680s were at 4.4 - on AIR!

Granted with dual sockets you need to buy a lot of processors in order to get a pair that can do 4.4GHz+. Seems like every pair there's one that needs 1.4+ volts to hit 4.2GHz or so. It's a conspiracy against SMP overclockers! :biggrin: