Anticipation for Intel's latest CPU architecture rivals the intensity for the original Core 2 Duo.It's not just that Nehalem is a new CPU architecture. Intel's new CPU line also brings along with it a new system bus, new chipsets, and a new socket format.
Today, we're mainly focusing on the Core i7 CPU and its performance compared to Intel's Core 2 quad-core CPUs. There's a ton of data to sift through just on CPU performance. We'll have ample opportunity to dive into the platform, and its tweaks, in future articles.
Intel will be launching three new Core i7 products in the next couple of weeks, at 2.66GHz, 2.93GHz, and 3.20GHz, at prices ranging from $285 to $999 (qty. 1,000). That's right: You'll be able to pick up a Core i7 CPU for around $300 fairly soon. Of course, that's not the whole story: You'll need a new motherboard and very likely, new memory, since the integrated memory controller only supports DDR3.
In the past several weeks, we've been locked in the basement lab, running a seemingly endless series of benchmarks on six different CPUs. Now it's time to talk results. While we'll be presenting our usual stream of charts and numbers, we'll try to put them in context, including discussions of how and when it might be best to upgrade.
Let's get started with a peek under the hood. (story Link)
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