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Intel Core i7 CPUs reappear on NewEgg

engadget.com — Remember those Core i7 processors that showed up -- ever so briefly -- on NewEgg a few days ago, only to promptly disappear, leaving us to ponder what we'd done wrong? Well, even though they're not slated to officially hit shelves until November 17th, we've heard from a slew of vigilant tipsters (hipsters?) that they're back.

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  • borninda818, on 11/16/2008, -3/+57Nerdgasm!
  • benologist, on 11/16/2008, -28/+2In other breaking news NewEgg also sells memory, hard drives and all the other crap we buy for our boxes.
    • BryanJK, on 11/16/2008, -2/+12what's your point?
      • benologist, on 11/17/2008, -26/+3That NewEgg selling computer ***** is about as newsworthy as me farting.
      • Areign, on 11/17/2008, -3/+14lol he is just confused, its not his fault that he cant even read the description.

        oh wait no it is. benologist, its probably a good idea to read about the subject matter which you are commenting on.
      • benologist, on 11/17/2008, -16/+1The subject being NewEgg, one of the better known sellers of computer stuff, is selling computer stuff?

        Or are we pretending that whatever oversight saw the products published on the site a few days before they should have been actually matters?
      • DeathRay2K, on 11/17/2008, -0/+11That NewEgg carries new Intel processors is not newsworthy, but that's not really what this is about.
        This is about the release of Intel's new processors, and that is newsworthy.
        See how thinking makes a difference?
  • rushco1988, on 11/17/2008, -15/+4Dirt cheap.
  • chickenloco, on 11/17/2008, -2/+31Extremely fast but also a bit pricey, especially for the entry level model.
    • DeathRay2K, on 11/17/2008, -1/+19You realise that these are all target at the high range, the actual entry level models will be released later, as is usual with Intel releases.
      Plus, the Core i7 920 (At $320) is about as fast as the Core 2 QX9770 (At $1950), so I think they're a bargain!
      • InfernoX, on 11/17/2008, -6/+4it's a bargain until you factor in the $300 motherboard and $200 RAM.
      • Zarokima, on 11/17/2008, -10/+2Definitely NOT a bargain.
        to get a small upgrade from this:
        http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
        you'd have to pay an extra $800 for this:
        http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
        Even the $600 one (at over 3 times the price) would be a small downgrade. All the new stuff is unnecessary at the moment and there won't be any real need for it for a couple of years -- plenty of time to just wait for a price drop.
      • lazyslacker, on 11/17/2008, -1/+6Yes, because $300 + $200 + $320 = $1950. Thanks professor.
      • DeathRay2K, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8Zarokima, the $320 Core i7 performs about as well as the $1950 Core 2 Extreme QX9770.
        You cannot possible argue that it is a downgrade from an E8500, that is ridiculous!
        Also, these will not be much of an improvement for gamers, true, but there are many applications that do fully utilise all available processing power, and for those it makes a huge difference.
      • KibibyteBrain, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1I'd say they are a bargin as soon as its clear how well they OC with the crazy new architecture. If they don't OC as well as the old ones, they might actually end up being on parity or worse.
  • rowlodge, on 11/17/2008, -3/+9ill wait and see what black friday brings.
    • Rizmaster, on 11/17/2008, -0/+22If you're hunting for deals than i7 isn't for you. i7 is the bleeding edge, the motherboards cost 300 bucks minimum and they all require DDR3, and good DDR3 kids are hundreds of dollars as well.

      i7 is absolutely awesome if you want the best and are willing to pay for it. Bargain hunting? Notsomuch.

      i7 IS however driving the price of socket 775 stuff downward, and 45 nm Core2Quads still overclock like gangbusters.
      • lazyslacker, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1so does the i7, especially the 920.
      • Rizmaster, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3No doubt lazyslacker, but that's still on a 300 dollar mobo. My point is a Q9450 will overclock on a 120 dollar mobo to keep up with the new i7s at stock with no trouble and you can use good DDR2. i7 right now is for people who want to spend $2,000 on a build or more. And that's awesome, they'll be some kickass machines, but I'm personally not looking at it for another 6 months at the earliest, my current system handles everything I throw at it.

        I'm all about the hardware, but I don't upgrade just to upgrade, I wait until my current stuff can't do what I want it to do. Or it's been 18 months and I'm bored. That too.
    • phatboye, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2I highly doubt you'll see any deals on i7s till sometime next year.
    • h3110, on 11/17/2008, -0/+0Good thing I waited until the i7 came out before getting a computer. But it's so close to boxing day I gotta wait till boxing day before I buy one! But by boxing day they'll announce new motherboards and CPUs... I should wait for those before I pick. But when those come out they usually cost a lot. If I just wait 1 more month I can save a lot. OMG USB 3.0 motherboards are here! Sweet... waited that long for USB 3.0 but now there's rumors about Intel i8. Waiting for Intel i8

      Still on AMD 2500+ Mobile.
  • mcsenget, on 11/17/2008, -13/+14I am not up to date on processors - are these better than, equal to, or less than, the Core 2 Quad Processor line?
    • LeroyJenkems, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7The base model surpasses most of the Core 2 Quad line.
    • DeathRay2K, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6The Core i7 920 is about as fast as the QX9770 in applications that fully utilise all cores.
    • ExRe, on 11/17/2008, -2/+29No, no, Intel just released their new lineup and it performs worse than what they've had out now for a year. /s
    • darkciti2, on 11/17/2008, -2/+7Why dig him down? It's a valid question. Just because something is newer doesn't mean it's better.

      As I recall, the Celeron processor came out as a watered down version of a more serious processor (after) the original.
      • LaGStAr, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4The Celeron processor also cost less not more.
    • DigitAl56K, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6Intel dropped one of these bad boys off at our office last week. The high-end Core i7 part outpaces my dual Core2 Quad rig by quite a margin (for HD video encoding). The memory bandwidth this platform has in comparison to any consumer system today is just insane.
  • Rizmaster, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5Great great chips at great prices. Damn shame the only motherboards are 300 bucks though.
    • mirunit, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2Along with $250 for the memory. I would wait till January - March 2009 for prices to decline.
      • jon3k, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1DDR3 isn't that expensive, please stop spreading misinformation.

        You can get 2GB of Kingston DDR3 1333 for $68 right now. Or how about G.SKILL DDR3-1333 2x2GB (4GB total) for $159.99.

        (prices are from newegg.com)
      • sexybobo, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3You can get 4 gig of ddr2 ocz for $44 so 3x as much is expensive.
    • ddgromit, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5MSI X58 is $220

      http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
      • Rizmaster, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Not a bad price, although it wasn't there when I checked earlier and made the initial comment.

        MSI tends to suck a big fat nut though. Their P45 boards were pretty solid, I'm just wary, you know?
    • tnoy, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2$220 isn't too bad of a price for what you get with that MSI board, either.
  • nurbsenvi, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5"slew of vigilant tipsters"
    gotta memorize that.
  • ProfChaosOmega, on 11/17/2008, -0/+37Selling my kidney tomorrow.
  • ufia, on 11/17/2008, -1/+20Thank god the Intel Core i7 is back. I was afraid I could not finish building my cyborg robot.
  • Catch_ME, on 11/17/2008, -0/+14I'm so poor. I'll wait til they are a bit less
  • RegalGSX, on 11/17/2008, -8/+2fap fap fap
  • FoxRacR17, on 11/17/2008, -1/+9so when are the 8 core i7's coming out?
    • DeathRay2K, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3After the next die shrink, in about a year.
      That is, if Intel can fit more than 6 cores per processor, they might not actually come out with any 8 core CPUs until 2010/11.
    • Syphon8, on 11/17/2008, -4/+3The 4-core i7's have hyperthreading, so software sees them as 8-core, anyways.
      • jon3k, on 11/17/2008, -1/+8Yes and the 8 core CPU with Hyperthreading will show up as 16 CPU's, what's your point? He asked when they 8 core cpus are coming out, not when he can buy a processor with 8 logical cores.
      • tnoy, on 11/17/2008, -3/+1Hyperthreading isn't as fast as two separate cores, depending on what you're trying to do.
      • Overcyn, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2so touchy jon3k.
  • digitallysick, on 11/17/2008, -9/+1So what mobos are out that support these? Nevermind i see them listed on newegg, humm nice, i cant wait
    • mirunit, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1X58 (Intel Chipset) Motherboards. Currently a motherboard can cost you more than the i7 920.
      • Zalyster, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Nah, you can get them for $220 at the lowest, atm.
  • BigglesPiP, on 11/17/2008, -4/+1But they've been in plentiful stock in the UK for days now. This is backwards.
  • BoSuu, on 11/17/2008, -0/+12They really are not THAT expensive. The $320 for a 920 is a reasonable price for the performance and the other two more expensive versions of the i7 are for enthusiasts and are not necessary for a great computer. It is the ddr3 and crazy expensive mobos needed for the i7 that make the price of an i7 system skyrocket.
    • InfernoX, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1True enough, although my next upgrade will probably be all that *****. It'd make more sense to just spend $700 upgrading my mobo, RAM and CPU to the latest than anything in between even if it would save me $200-300.

    • JakeW, on 11/17/2008, -3/+1and the $1,000 CPU...
      • Giga, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1I thought we established that the CPU was $320, not $1000...
      • BoSuu, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1The extreme one is $1,000. If somebody wants to spend the money for a crazy good processor, but dollar per performance is not that great, then good for that person. It isn't needed to have a killer rig though.
  • jdoo, on 11/17/2008, -4/+10yes but will they run crysis?
    • Gunshock, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1nope
    • Dylson, on 11/17/2008, -0/+27Nothing can ***** run crysis. NOTHING!
    • Syphon8, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Several times over.
    • lazyslacker, on 11/17/2008, -1/+6actually I think it was tomshardware that had some extensively detailed benches posted a few weeks ago and at high resolutions even the i7 965 with triple SLI with nvidia's highest end card Crysis performed relatively poorly. The game just isn't written well so no amount of hardware is going to get it much above 40-60fps at max settings with really high resolutions.
      • Zalyster, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2I just refuse to believe that even an i7 965, with triple SLI with Nvidia's highest end card, and probably some kickass RAM, barely makes 40-60fps. I mean, I guess if it's some crazy resolution, but crank it down to 1680 or 1440 ws, and it /should/ run great. Of course, this is Crysis we're talking about...Not even Crysis can run Crysis.
  • ExRe, on 11/17/2008, -0/+28The prices are not too bad IMO.

    But the ram selection is horrible. 1 triple channel set of 3x 2GB sticks costs more than 2 dual channel sets of 2x 2GB sticks.

    I doubt I'll move to i7/DDR3 until you can get 3x 2GB sticks for under $100. My Q6600 still has lots of life.
    • johnsmith3210, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1Q6600 FTW.
      Seriously, this processor in terms of performance/price ratio is the best on the market. IMHO.
  • vinnyvenus, on 11/17/2008, -8/+3 I like rooting for the underdog, that is why I use AMD when I build my machine, use sprint as my mobile carrier and I voted for John McCain in 2008 presidential election. So I wanna ask digg is if I am making the right decison? Amd can still be on the top in near future, right? Please say yes.
    • fuzzynyanko, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. AMD AM3 is coming out next year. You can use them in AM2 and AM2+ motherboards, as well as AM3 motherboards. As far as performance goes, no idea. At least ATI is doing well, and it should be a sign.
    • prophetpimp, on 11/17/2008, -2/+1Stop being a retard and buy from everyone. Get a intel chip, nvidia nforce mobo and the ATI graphics card.
    • GT35R, on 11/17/2008, -2/+2I can tell you that ur decision about john mccain was wrong.
      • Sabretou, on 11/17/2008, -1/+2I can tell you that whoever taught you English Grammar was wrong.
      • Zalyster, on 11/17/2008, -1/+1More of a spelling mistake, really.
  • gplpark92, on 11/17/2008, -3/+3those motherboards are expensive as *****.
    and $319 for the low-end is still expensive. i mean, it isn't, since its more poewrful than like all the C2Q's, but since its a low-end for a new model line, they should make it $219. think of how many more people will buy it.

    back to motherboards
    i've never spent more than $120 on a motherboard and don't plan to. if you're not looking into doing SLI or something, spending more than ~$120 is utterly retarded.

    its a motherboard, for gods sake
    its not gonna sell until NORMAL $60-80 LGA1366 motherboards are available, the way 775s are today.
    • DeathRay2K, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1It's not really the low end. Like all of Intel's processor launches, the low end is coming out later.
      • eboskie1, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1The low end ones use DMI not QPI which sux..
    • HappyScrappy, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1LGA1366 won't drop too much in price. There's a cheaper chip package and socket coming that only supports 2 banks of memory instead of 3. It drops like 300 pins off. This will come in at decent prices.
  • maus56, on 11/17/2008, -1/+14Save your money until summer. Better prices and selections all around.
    • BigglesPiP, on 11/17/2008, -2/+3I'm sick of seeing "just wait until..." There's always something better coming, either a more efficient die shrink of this tech. or new tech. on the same fab. process as the last tech. Just buy when you're ready.
      • sexybobo, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2I think he was referring to mobo selection. These are brand new chips with brand new sockets.
        Newegg currently only has 8 mobo that support this chip compared to 372 for the dual core chips. By summer they will have a much better selection that will let you get the options you want.
      • BigglesPiP, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1I don't think i7 boards will get much cheaper. It's a high end platform, LGA775 isn't going away soon.
  • kyoobeh, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1wonder what they will cost next January or Febraury
  • Hegemony, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6I'll be interested to see where the prices end up after the initial offering. I could barely bring myself to blow $200 on an E8400 at the beginning of the year. Over $300 is, I think, out of the question for the entry-level.
    • lazyslacker, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5But it isn't entry level, as many have said. It's the lower end of the enthusiast chips. It'll kick the ass of the entry level chips coming out in a few months, trust me.
  • vat0r, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3All hail newegg.
  • SonicSam, on 11/17/2008, -4/+2Not on NewEgg.ca yet :(
  • Syphon8, on 11/17/2008, -2/+7I'm really interested in seeing where computer will go from here.

    By the end of the Core i7 cycle we'll be seeing computer with 8 core 5+ GHz i7s, with 96 GBs of RAM. (The maximum memory module size of DDR3 is 16 GB, and boards for i7 will have 2x3 slot DIMM banks.)

    Running Crysis on full settings 8 times while editing 1080p video in real time while running Windows 7 and still have figurative assloads of power left over. 604k of RAM may not be enough, but I'm betting 96G will be.
    • KloroFormd, on 11/17/2008, -1/+1If the good/bad alternation of Windows keeps going strong, 96GiB might not be enough after Windows 7.
    • bluemist, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3With the multicore generation I'm wishing to run simultaneous OS's. No not the virtualization kind, I mean natively.
    • sexybobo, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3You are forgetting about crysis 2 that will be out in 2011 that will need 100gig of ram to get 30 fps.
      I am sure there is a comment some where asking where computers will go now that they have 16 bit processors 4 meg of ram and 100 meg hard drives
    • johnsmith3210, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3"604k of RAM may not be enough, but I'm betting 96G will be"
      Ohhhhhhhhh you're gonna look so stupid in about 25 years ;)
  • flockqqa15, on 11/17/2008, -5/+0hi
  • flockqqa15, on 11/17/2008, -5/+0hello
  • wonttellya, on 11/17/2008, -1/+3Micro Center has 920 for $300, another $300 for the cheapest MB, and $130 for 1x3GB DDR3 RAM. $730 upgrade isn't too bad if you own a pre-C2D or AMD machine now, but I'm going to wait until the 965 drops down to around $500 to upgrade to i7.

    http://microcenter.com/storefronts/intel/nov_promo ...

  • c1utch, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2 I just bought a q9550 with 8gb of ram and a 4870. Overclocked to 3.8 on air stable. The i7 920 looks to overclock to 3.8 as well, at 20% faster times in 3ds and rhino. $320 gets you a beast of a processor, well worth it.
  • flockqqa16, on 11/17/2008, -2/+1great
  • flockqqa15, on 11/17/2008, -2/+1wow.....
  • flockqqa16, on 11/17/2008, -2/+1huh....
  • Sabretou, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Anyone know how these compare to AMD Phenoms? Or what AMD is planning to counter this? I'm planning on buying a new processor next year.
  • JasonHilton, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1also on TigerDirect.com now.

    (I prefer NewEgg, I'm just saying...)
  • i4unews, on 11/17/2008, -0/+1if you dont want to build a Core i7 rig, Amazon sells Core i7 systems:
    http://www.i4u.com/article21661.html
  • coolchu001, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2Sold my Q9450 (8GB, 2x 640GB, 8800GT) system and bought all the parts on eBay with the 25% live.com discount... Only had to pay an extra $200 (after the cashback) on top of my Q9450 sale price. Got a i7 920, Asus P6T, 2x 1TB Samsung, HD 4870, 2x 3x 1GB DDR3 kit (6GB), and a Corsair 750W PSU :-)
  • Aurabolt, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Anyone else pissed that Newegg removed the shipping cost from being seen, until you add it to the cart and put in your zipcode?
  • binorgog, on 11/17/2008, -0/+2We hit Microcenter in Denver at 10am in the 16th per the advertisement. Then had to wait 2 hours till noon for some reason. Finally hooked up with two of the 920 and 16 gig of ram (two machines being built). Bleeding edge yea, but someone has to SAVE THIS ECONOMY!
  • flockqqa15, on 11/18/2008, -0/+0helllooooooooooooooooooooo........
  • flockqqa15, on 11/19/2008, -0/+0gud........
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