{"id":29,"date":"2009-10-16T15:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T20:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/TimOnCS\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-10-16T15:43:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T20:43:41","slug":"core-i7-dodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/2009\/10\/16\/core-i7-dodo\/","title":{"rendered":"Core i7 Dodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that the new Core i7 chips are out (as of September 2009).  See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/Core-i5-i7-Processors-lynnfield,8615.html\">tom&#8217;s hardware<\/a> article.<\/p>\n<p>The new i7-860 and i7-870 chips are 95W instead of 130W.  But the thing that makes the i7-9xx series a dodo is that the 8xx series is dual memory channel, not triple.  Motherboard support for LGA 1156 is already huge, and prices are already below $80.  Nobody is buying the expensive X58 boards now, and there won&#8217;t be any pressure to decrease the price.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it.  I now own the last of the triple-channel CPU solutions that we&#8217;ll be seeing for a long time [if ever].  Along with it goes the LGA 1366 socket, which loses to the LGA 1156 socket.   And X58 gives way to P55.  The new chip line is &#8220;Core i7 for LGA 1156&#8221;.  It is an i7, but not really.<\/p>\n<p>There are some articles mentioning <a href=\"http:\/\/icrontic.com\/news\/first-review-of-gulftown-intel-core-i9-appears\">&#8220;Gulftown&#8221; i9<\/a> &#8211; a CPU with six cores and 32nm manufacturing, set to release 2010Q2.  I&#8217;m taking a wait-and-see attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that the new Core i7 chips are out (as of September 2009). See this tom&#8217;s hardware article. The new i7-860 and i7-870 chips are 95W instead of 130W. But the thing that makes the i7-9xx series a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/2009\/10\/16\/core-i7-dodo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiemensfamily.com\/timoncs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}