6 cores Intel Core i7 980x

Mark Dygert

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/191314/intel_core_i7_980x_brings_sixcore_power_to_desktops.html

6 cores Hyper Threading to 12.

At home I'm still on a single core HT'ed to 2, so I hope this drives the price of the quad cores down... I doubt I'll jump on the 6 core bandwagon anytime soon.

Hopefully software manufactures will catch up soon.

Disco Stu

Nice to hear.
I really hope they dont change the motherboards the i7 chips use as mine has cost
me a fortune. Being able to simply upgrade the cpu to more and more threads over time would be awesome.

notman

I miss the days when CPU sockets didn't change all the time, and motherboards would last longer. These days, they might as well just solder the CPU onto the motherboard and sell them as a single unit.

oXYnary

This will be mine.

Notman: "The Core i7 980x is an LGA 1366 socket processor, and is capable of running on existing X58 Express chipset motherboards (after a simple BIOS update), "

crasong

I agree notman, I recently upgraded to an i7 mobo myself, and buying a cpu fan let alone installing it from the instructions couldn't have been more confusing!

PolyHertz

I've been waiting for this myself, sense hopefully it'll bring down quad prices into the $100'ish range. Probably wont for the "i" series, but regular LGA775 chips it will hopefully.

notman

oXYnary wrote: »

Notman: "The Core i7 980x is an LGA 1366 socket processor, and is capable of running on existing X58 Express chipset motherboards (after a simple BIOS update), "

I'm glad to see it. That's what I was getting at I'm hoping they do it more in the future.