Thread: Intel Core i7(Nethalem)

So, who’s following this one? It made me a sad panda when I got wind of the new flagship processor from Intel. A sad panda because I was so close to just ordering all the parts for my new PC; now I have to wait to see how the new technology works.

I'm very curious to see how these perform vs. the current duo, quad cores and which ever AMD is on top at the moment.

With their release date being sometime in early to mid November the next few months are going to be very interesting. New boards, ram kits, and any revisions to the release processors that will be coming out all of which will need to be tested and benchmarked for all us consumers. I can’t wait to see them.

If these processors show a significant improvement for gaming over the current mainstream processors I'm be spending the extra money to future proof my system a bit. If not I'll just build a mid ranged system for a few hundred and upgrade later on when needed. Well rebuild later since a ground up approach is necessary due to the new socket and DDR3 being a requirement.

What are everyone else’s thoughts or concerns?