Intel to Cannibalize Core i7 920 / 940

[PaulieG]

THIS WAS A RUMOR AND INTEL SAID THAT IT WAS FALSE! INTEL WILL KEEP DOING i7 920s!

Calm down with the damn large bold type. Everyone here can read just fine.

 

[Assassin48]

wouldn't they want to say that tho?

so people don't get the 920 then just drop it and charge double for the "i5" for 920 performance?

 

[DaveK]

Woot, Core i7 plans rise again! 920 here I come!

 

[dr emulator (madmax)]

THIS WAS A RUMOR AND INTEL SAID THAT IT WAS FALSE! INTEL WILL KEEP DOING i7 920s!

ye ye this was a rumour .thing is it made me think
of all the people on here who have overclocked there i7 920s
now obviously they won't be buying the 965 or 975 for the speed
and at the current prices of 965/975 that's a huge loss to intel so i
personally can't see either lasting long

 

[btarunr]

THIS WAS A RUMOR AND INTEL SAID THAT IT WAS FALSE! INTEL WILL KEEP DOING i7 920s!

VERY GOOD, IT'S COMING FROM THE SAME SOURCE THAT STARTED THE RUMOR

And to think that making text any larger than this in posts (other than when making headings) isn't all that straight.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

First, the Core i7 920. Despite being told quite the opposite just last week, Intel vehemently reaffirmed the i7 920 will still exist for the foreseeable future. However, there was absolutely no commitment to a timescale.

Core i7 920 could still be gone by the end of 2009. They'll probably wait to gauge Lynnfield sales to decide whether or not the 920 needs to go.

 

[eidairaman1]

Yeesh, having text size that large hurts my eyes.

 

[dr emulator (madmax)]

sorry guys /girls (if their is any)
i just used the quote button
(which by the way gave me small text ,plus the fact i don't remember anything about text size)
(and ,yes it hurts my eyes aswell )
oh well i'm getting 1 regardless pretty soon from my local store which still has the i7 940,
although i might do a poll on what memory i should get what do you lot think

 

[dr emulator (madmax)]

ah the joys of being able to edit there you go everyone
i just put the text size down to 4 on my old reply

 

[n-ster]

It seemed like some people had missed it so I made sure everyone saw it now that we've been quoting me to complain about size, I'm sure anyone who even takes a glance at the thread knows it was a rumor

put the size down to 5 now

oh and DR. em, I see double post!!! It's fine in the Gen. nonsense forum, but the mods won't appreciated here

 

[Wetbehindtheears]

dr emulator look at thread : i7-2-GO, fit talks about the best RAM....

 

[soryuuha]

...

I hate ur font sizes ._.

 

[Wetbehindtheears]

Not sure n-ster, I've just read this on another thread here:

More bad new for us i7 owners Intel goes back on what they said yesterday.

COMPUTEX 2009: Despite telling us face to face yesterday that its Core i7 920 and 950 CPU's will be around for a little while yet, bit-tech has exclusively seen roadmaps and been given multiple confirmations that every-single-one of the X58 motherboard manufacturers is expecting: 920, 940, 950 and 965 will be end-of-life by early next year.

Only the 975 Extreme Edition and the future 6-core LGA1366 CPUs will exist on this socket, with Lynnfield engulfing the entire middle field (we're hesitant to use the word "mainstream").

LGA1366 and X58 motherboards will be thinned out in the next refresh in Q3/4 with the launch of Lynnfield on Sept. 1st, although no one had an exact date for the phasing out of these CPU products.

bittech

this sucks, but the good news is the 6-core Nehlams,

 

[hat]

Time tells all truths and no lies. We can only wait and see what will happen in the future. Rumors and FUD are no things to live by.

 

[PaulieG]

Not sure n-ster, I've just read this on another thread here:

Yeah, this came AFTER the statement from Intel that they were going to continue the lower i7 chips for some time. Really no cause for alarm though, since there will be Xeons to upgrade too, the extreme chips, and the upcoming 6 core chips. The i7 was meant to be a high end enthusiast platform, and if you look at the upgrading options, that is exactly what it is. The i7 was just an abomination. Considering the performance of the 920, it is a budget chip for a platform that was never meant to be budget in any way.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

As I said earlier, LGA1366 was always intended to be the two-way/Skulltrail platform. Intel just made it affordable until the LGA1156 processors debut so they could start recouping losses on developing Nehalem.

 

[n-ster]

what is the difference between Xeon chips and i7's? say W3520 vs i7 920?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

They have a much more extensive Quality Assurance program.

 

[n-ster]

Isn't there something about the memory controller or something?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I don't think so. Later Xeons will probably have FB-DIMM memory controllers instead of DIMM. I would be surprised if the LGA1366 sees a FB-DIMM memory controller though.

 

[n-ster]

Some are saying the uncore/mem is locked on the Xeon

I think it's something to do with Bios... maybe some boards just don't support Xeon chips completely? I heard Asus BIOS had problems with this...

 

[PaulieG]

Some are saying the uncore/mem is locked on the Xeon

I think it's something to do with Bios... maybe some boards just don't support Xeon chips completely? I heard Asus BIOS had problems with this...

Possibly certain board may have problems on an early bios. The Xeon 1366 chips are the same as their i7 brothers, with more QA.

 

[eidairaman1]

can you confirm on how they have Quality Assurance? I mean for all we know they could be evaluated exactly the same as the Core i7 Parts or even Core 2 Parts for that matter.

 

[dr emulator (madmax)]

It seemed like some people had missed it so I made sure everyone saw it now that we've been quoting me to complain about size, I'm sure anyone who even takes a glance at the thread knows it was a rumor

put the size down to 5 now

oh and DR. em, I see double post!!! It's fine in the Gen. nonsense forum, but the mods won't appreciated here

sorry n-ster i'm new to the net and dont understand what you mean by double posting
i personaly thought d p was when you posted same message twice please explain

 

[eidairaman1]

what he means is when there are 2 posts in a row from same person without anyone posting between them, you can use the Multiple Quote function at the bottom of each topic so you can make a single post about multiple posts from other memembers.