--[NO PROCESSOR IS WORTH 3 GRAND.]--

Whoa there, take a break, you're starting to make sense.

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The Dunningtons have been talked about ever since the end of 2007, which goes to show how highly expected Intel's next-generation processors are. The Dunnington platform is said to be based on Intel's Core microarchitecture and will be built using the 45nm manufacturing process. The processors are designed for server systems and are expected to be available to server builders before the Nehalem platform is released. The Dunningtons are said to be built with six Intel Core microarchitecture cores made up of three dual-core Penryn dies, sharing a 16MB L3 cache.

According to the Vr-Zone website, the Dunningtons will be shipped in seven flavors ranging from four to six cores and frequencies between 2.13 and 2.66 GHz. The model names are L7445, L7455, E7420, E7430, E7440, E7459, X7470. The high-end X7470 will have an estimated price tag of $2729 and the technical specs include a 6-core CPU running at 2.66 GHz on a 1066 MHz FSB and with 16MB of L3 cache. The low-end E7420 will have a price tag of $1177 and will provide users with a 4 core CPU running at 2.13 GHz and with a cache level lower than on any other Dunnington CPU.

At this point, Intel leads the market in the consumer area with its 45nm multi core Penryn platform, which was released in early 2008. AMD still falls short in offering the highest performance consumer-oriented CPUs but has a strong market share in the server area.
NO MATTER HOWSMART IT MIGHT PERFORM, NO PROCESSOR IS WORTH 3 GRAND. WHEN THERES USUALLY $200+ ALTERNATIVE. aHSO, ITS MERE 3 PENRYN PROCESSORS gLUED TOGETHER. maybe smaller Nahalem is BETTER.Summer of Testing.''8
drashek

Yeah, it makes sense. The Extreme models have their clock multiplier unlocked. For people with water cooled systems whos main applications include synthetic benchmarking and making the computer better at said synthetic benchmarks, the QX is the way to go.

the question remains, why almost double the price for the QX9650 once the Q9650 comes out? Does it make any sense?

Is it really just the fact that the multiplier on the QX9650 is unlocked? What's the point? Is there something there that justifies such a big price hike?

I remember reading somewhere that 1600Mhz FSB was coming to the mainstream segment, what happend to that?

How about Intel release ample quantities of the chips they are supposed to have already have on the market? I realize they might want to keep numbers low to keep prices artificially high, but I am almost ready to switch to AMD.

Ehm wasn't this anounced in feb/mars or something ?

Perhaps not price.. but still its not avlible until Q3 so nothings changed..