Intel Gulftown to be launched as Core i7

December 16th, 2009 No Comments   Posted in CPUs

Intel will adopt the Core i7 brand identifier to sell Gulftown, the six core processor based on the Nehalem architecture. Chinese website PCOnline shows a leaked Intel slide that clearly describes a Core i7 980X processor as one built on a 32nm process and based on the lga1366 chipset. Clocked at 3.33 GHz, on march 2010 this chip will replace Intel current flagship desktop processor, the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, at the very same price of US $999. More »

Intel Core i7 Reviews

November 10th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in CPUs

In the past days a lot of reviews and benchmarks about the new Intel Core i7/X58 platform surfaced on the net. Here are a few interesting links: Techgage, Legion Hardware, TweakTown, Guru3D, PC Perspective, TechSpot, Neoseeker, t-break, OCAU, ExtremeTech, Benchmark Reviews, HotHardware, HardOCP, Lost Circuits. More »