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teddybobrichards   08-18-2009 at 07:25:42 PM

Intel Core i7 Extreme 975

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2x Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 (Skulltrail)

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win7man   08-19-2009 at 03:48:34 AM

the i7 for sure, not only dose it have the 4 cores of the core 2 extreme, but it has turbo boost and hyper threading, in other words, it has 4 cores but 8 threads (each core works as 2) and the turbo boost is pretty much just self overclocking

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hefox   08-19-2009 at 11:05:22 AM

win7man wrote :

the i7 for sure, not only dose it have the 4 cores of the core 2 extreme, but it has turbo boost and hyper threading, in other words, it has 4 cores but 8 threads (each core works as 2) and the turbo boost is pretty much just self overclocking


So do you want to tell me that 1 x i7 975 is better than 2 x QX9775?! Uooouuu!!! Really?! I don't think so. 2nd option is better.
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Bronze CPUs badge cjl   08-19-2009 at 11:07:19 AM

The second option is faster in multithreaded operations, the first is faster in single threaded and memory bandwidth limited operations.

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megamanx00   08-19-2009 at 05:56:20 PM

For gaming and alot of other tasks the i7 is a better choice even at stock clocks. If you're gonna do stuff like software rendering then the skull rail would be better. Do your research. There are alot of articles that compare the two setups and where their strengths lie.

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