News Intel's Core i7 CPUs available now

In any event, I never buy a product that's new on the market. Take the 8800GT, perfect example: EVERY source gave it rave reviews and advised buying at least one immediately, because it actually ran Crysis (sort of) and wasn't stupidly expensive. Then a few months later a whole host of moderately priced, Crysis-capable cards came out that were better value for money. I'm now sitting happily on an HD4870.

It always, always pays to wait a little bit. I would urge anyone considering buying on the bleeding edge to wait a month or two - even if it doesn't change your mind (and if you're a genuinely huge spender, it probably won't) it'll at least lower the cost by 5-10%.

That's no criticism of your purchase, bowman - I'm sure it will be an awesome chip

 

Prices are way high, for a low end cpu and mobo it's gong to cost you around $600 USD... For $100 more you can get a q6600 a decent mobo 4GB of Ram and a nice ATI card and be done with it... Also, rumor has it socket 775 is getting extended to 2011, so there will probably be some great 775 cpu's to come.

To add insult to injury, AMD is coming out with their Phenom II procs and the AM3 ones will support ddr2 and ddr3. These are suppoded to come out in feb09. I will probably wait on the fence until then and make a purchase when the cards are on the table.

 

In the news header to this article you say "not as expensive as we expected" then at the end of the first paragraph of the actual article you say "the prices are a bit higher than we expected" I'm confused! ;-)

I'm with FeRal, I'll be going straight to i7 at the end of the month - am coming from a Sempron 2400+ so am definitely in need of an upgrade! Recently been given £1000 to that's a nice starting point!

 

Aye, i7 920 is a good price for what you get, the memory is okay seeing as it's not had a chance to mature as yet, but the motherboard price.. ouch - a lot.

 

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DECIDE!!!!

Anyways, this just makes the decision easier to stick to my trusty C2D E6600 @ 3.6 GHz (on air). Maybe next year around August/September after I moved to Austria...Westmere most likely.

 

Custom PC this month (just got my subscriber edition today which I think is the Jan09 edition) have a great set of pages outlining the i7 series, and also review the benefits of dual channel ddr3 vs triple channel ddr3. Well worth a read.

Interestingly they also review 3 motherboards. Two are £270 and one is £350. Jesus H Christ. Motherboard manufacturer's are really taking the p*ss in this economic climate. I remember paying about £85 for my superb Abit ip35 pro for my current Core 2 e6750.

Combine a £270 MB with a £260 processor, and then theres the memory.. atleast £150 to £200 for a full set of DDR3..... Wow... just Wow. and thats even before Ive started to look at the GPU/HD/Case/ DVD drive etc etc.

Sorry... but Im sitting this out. Waaaaaay too expensive for me at this stage.

 

LOL! True, I went from "wow that's quite reasonable" to "hmm still expensive" in the space of writing the two

 

I did that already

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/11/03/intel-core-i7-920-945-965-review/1

but it's good the CPC guys did it too I've got the new edition and have still not read it - I've been waiting for the final BIOS' and SLI drivers before I start X58 reviews. Should be at the start of December now - Ive got DDR3 for this week then two P45s (Gigabyte UD3R and DFI JR!) to finish first. I figured after about 25 Core i7 articles people might be getting a bit peeved off.

 

920
P6T Deluxe
3GB Corsair 1333 Dominators

or

9650
P5Q Deluxe
8GB OCZ 800 C4

both roughly the same price, would be interesting to see which one wins at max 24/7 oc...

 

I think that I'll wait until at least Christmas.

 

Also have to agree on Overclockers being the (as usual) most expensive. Their **** is crazy expensive most of the time.

 

Well i bought from there before never got through to them on phone or anything, tried ebuyer and they were similar (when they did phone support "properly") and now trade with Tekheads as I can pick the items up (live in lincoln) and they have great service.

Dabs aint too bad either but only used for 2 laptops.

 

I love new CPU smell, but I'm going to sit this one out.

 

And I thought I was all alone.....

 

I hear you. I can afford to wait a while longer, until all the cards are on the table in February that is...

Hrm..., birthday coming up in March.