moonbogg
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- Jan 8, 2011
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In the last decade, I'd say Nehalem was the most important. Everything else has been building on that.
The first i7's were insanely exciting, especially because of that rumor that went around that said, "Core i7 won't be good at gaming". And then it came out and WRECKED THE EARTH at gaming and everything else.
However, the original i7's came at an odd time with regard to gaming. Dual core Wofldale's were still conquering the entire gaming landscape, and they were doing it at 4ghz quite commonly. Games that benefited from a quad core were very few and far between, if any existed at all and a great many gamers, including myself, simply skipped the entire first gen i7's, including their shrunken Westmere brethren because a fast dual core really was more than enough to wreck any game out there.
The release of BF Bad Company 2 would be the cold ice water on the backs of us dual core holdouts, forcing us to lock eyes with the amazing Sandy Bridge that was coming just around the corner.