[Solved] Point of core i3?

If you can get a great core 2 duo with at least 3.0ghz ala e8400, then whats the point when you canstill use the LGA 775 board? Is this SKU for the pentium 4 upgraders? I dont understand why one would buy an LGA1556 board and get a 2 core i3, yeah it has a few new features and more RAM can be used but so what.... Anyone still feel like this is useless?

If I would use your logic then it would be useless to use i5/i7 over C2Q for the same reasons as you dumped i3.

Not because it only have 2 cores doesn't mean it would be "useless". This is what they call innovation.

They are also making more 1156 boards, with the H55 specification. micoratx , I'm not sure of the details but I believe they are more budget oriented. So a complete package can be built cheaply. Leave no stone unturned for a person to choose AMD, lol.

Being 32nm with the 45nm gpu, OEM's are gonna love them.

Continued since I got some weird message saying error. Guru Meditation?.....................

My logic however, were if it were in MY situation, I have basically eked out alot out of my 775board and processor, which I have already upgraded from an e4600, and 3 gpu's and would rather skip the whole 1156 core i3,i5, and pseudo i7 and get an X58 with all the new features like USB3.0 and sata 3 in a few months. I mean why not go for the full x16, X16, SLI or Crossfire? Even Tri SLI is possible with the more expensive boards. What I am saying, even in other threads is that there are boards that are sub $200-250 that are X58 and only $50-150 more the total package over a P55 board. Why not go for the whole nine yards and get that other GPU a few months later to upgrade instead of instantly.... the money you save in the meantime if you get a p55 is nothing compared to the "future" compatibility and technology invested in an X58 over a P55.

I know I will not get the hexacore chips in the next 3-5years but at least this board can handle that and is THAT much long term. Hench Intel left no stone unturned with the X58.... perhaps they will come out with another one with more features in between the launch of the 6core hips but at least we all know that the x58 can handle just that and much more.

This is just an opinion but I hope it can persuade some ppl to overlook the marketing standpoint of the P55, i3,i5, and the 1156 i7. If you are going to get an Intel cpu research first and know how long you will want to use you PC as a utility with utilitarian methods and just buy an X58 now or in a few months with full and updated features. The X58 will reach a broader market in the future as in 5 years from now, you can still look for parts for this board ans upgrade it well even with newer technology around at prices near the P55 which will be a dead end by then.

Thats like asking the point of a Athlon/Phenom II X2. Cheap and for the masses.

I agree it (i3) looks quite good.

I do not see these chips beating the AMD chips its supposed to be competing with.

Yeah, but that voltage really isn't something you'd want to be running for 24/7 on 32nm.

Cooling isn't everything. Voltage alone can kill a CPU, even if it is running in a perfectly reasonable temperature range.

Heat accelerates the process, yes, but if Intel specifies that the 32nm chips should be run at 1.25V or below (this is just an example - I don't know what the actual spec is), then running them at 1.5V could significantly shorten their lifetime.

low cost solution, but i would still rather get a core2quad over this and eke out every last bit of that lga775 with ddr3... until the FINAL(updated with all current/new tech like usb3.0, ect) lga1336 board comes out....

[quotemsg=2046499,29,62906]Well obviously intel is cheating here by using the "cripple C2D" function on their compile?
how so?

They are a joke at the current prices. Forget about AMD for now. The current prices on all the i5 dual cores is more then the i5 750 quad core. That is flat out ridiculous. If they gave you a FREE H55 board then it would even out the price/performance a bit. Even then I would not purchase one of those chips.

I think the i5 dualies are more of a rip-off than the i3's.... I can understand the pricepoint of the i3's, specially since they are 32nm and they overclock fairly well. But the 650/660/661 and 670 are plain useless at those prices. If they were low end quads then the price would be justifiable, but as dual cores I see no point...

A dual core more expensive than the 750??? Nuts IMO....Intel has got to the point that they do not want ANYONE overclocking...lol they want you to pay the ridiculous premium for a few extra Mhz....Ohh well....

Well you are comparing old tech vs. new tech... Wait till AMD gets their 32nm's out the door , then we can compare....

Considering AMD won't have 32nm out the door for another year, I'd say it's a perfectly fair comparison.

I will second on that, I would never buy a 1156 chip that cost more than a 1336chip, esp not the i7920. What more an H55, its as if anyone will use the onboard gpu on that chip for gaming anyway...

Theres a whole lineup of 1156 xeon's and they may get the 32nm quads first that everyone wants. The 32nm quad by either cpu maker is going to be the next big enthusiast cpu.

Correct but you cannot justify a pricetag of 290.00$ just cause the CPU is factory clocked at 3.4Ghz, this CPU is clearly made for the un-educated and lazy or for a user that can care less. Look, like I said these CPU's are not bad chips, they are just overpriced even as 32nm. Its not like you will see a HUGE difference on your monthly electric bill, or shave off 20c in LOAD temps vs a 45nm. I have seen these dualies in action and im not impressed. The only thing that did catch my attention was the overclocking threshold, everything else is mediocre IMO....

Anyone have any benchmarks of these chips vs. anything AMD has to offer?

With the new article is it truly better to get it over a core 2 quad?