Report: New Intel Desktop Chips Coming Soon

Good news but the 970 is way too expensive

No wonder. Fry's was having a sale - core i7 930 + a Tom's recommended x58 mobo for like $380. Yay upcoming price cuts!!

Very nice prices for the i5-760 & i7 - 950, now if i can only get a raise at work...

How about an i7 - 940 (next iteration of the 920/930)?

When will we see a 32nm Quad for the 1156 socket. They still don' have one for the 1366 socket. I want a quad with the efficiency overclocking abilities of 32nm. Still waiting. Intel Dual cores had this advantage for a while.

ya but its way more than what hardcore gamers would need
its more for CPU intensive tasks and heavily multi-threaded apps

Meh. Intel is so awful with their names, it's like they're trying to confuse people. I don't get that for any update on their CPU they have to change the name by an increment of 10. Just leave it be, and call it v2 or something. Now you get 920, 930, 940, 950, 970, gosh.

sorry, everythings going to the new LGA 1155 and LGA 2011

Another new chip, don't these guys ever take a break

I would just like to see some new chipsets from Intel (X6x or P6x?). Something with native support for SATA6 and USB3.

not bad, an i7 950 for $300

The prices are being cut, but still not that fast. The dominance of Intel is causing this. Real bad.

That one did exist at one time, but was replaced rather quickly by the 950.

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37148

The 950 looks to be moving down to the 930's current price, so there is no need to revive the 940. Looks like 3.06GHz at the entry level pretty soon.

Why does everybody here think a cpu is just for games? Believe it or not they do serve other purposes. I do a lot of encoding, I would love to put a realistically priced hexacore in my 1366 mb but I'm guessing that won't be happening now

I just got a raise... didn't help much.

I'm not in the market for new CPU/Platform. Maybe next year. Its always good to see new stuff and lower prices

As long as they have no real competition at the high end, they have no real incentive to drop the pricing. Intel's Nehalem based hexacores are unmatched for multithreaded performance, and anyone who actually needs that performance is usually willing to pay $800+ for it. For everyone else, they have other, cheaper quad cores that are still incredible. Don't expect the hexacores to drop in price until either Intel releases something new on the very high end, or until AMD actually brings out something that can compete.

This article highlights one minor reason I don't use Intel- they feel the bizarre need to release countless sub-iterations of each chip they have on the market. All of which will become obsolete, motherboard-wise, within a couple years. Because Intel will eventually decide to switch to yet another socket format before they really need to.

Plus, they want to charge $800 for a hexacore. Screw that.

Agreed. If people want to spend money, spend it on something worth while, like..... $1000 AMD 12-core Opteron?

Some people are like but the socket is so huge....and I am like...and?

and nutbar's who just have to have the best everything, any i7 cpu is more than you'll need.

i7 920 is still all anyone really needs imho. I haven't hardly even tapped the one I have sitting here. lower prices is where it is at. I still game on core2duo and it is fine. laptop deals with i7 are interesting to me but $1k is a lot of money in this economy for anything now.

"rooket, i7 920 is still all anyone really needs imho."

Your opinion is wrong. Many people that read toms actually use PC's for work, not games. Every advancement is welcome if it allows me to create "stuff" in less time.

Or to put it in terms for rooket, wouldn't you want the game delvelopers to have these really fast hexa core CPU's so they can get the game to you in a shorter amount of time? Over simplified but I think it made the point.

sooooo people with money to throw at these thing get to pay less......... great

Actually, his statement is pretty accurate JamesSneed, and I would go even further to say that you don't need more than an i5 750, or 760 now for that matter. You don't need an hexacore CPU unless you are some kind of a freak with 5 OS running simultaneously and with 30 tabs in your browser and tons of other things...

Yes causing having more CPU power then needed has ever stopped hardcore gamers from buying top end CPUs

not bad, an i7 950 for $300 but I'd still rather get the AMD x6 for the same price point.

I think he was more thinking of things like rendering, encoding etc. and not regular office work...

Yeah but even that won't make that much of a difference, just a couple of percent. My point is, if you want to buy a 6 core CPU, wait 2-3 years before most major tools become cleverly multi-threaded.

Buying one today just is a waste of money because at that time, there will be a better 6 core cpu, and until then, a quad-core is all that you need.

AMD is done for. They should just close up shop instead of confusing the market with their pathetic presence.

It makes a huge difference, actually. Rendering and encoding on a 6 core is up to 50% faster in many cases than on an otherwise identical (clocks, architecture, etc) quad.

killerclick...your fanboism will raise the price of your already overpriced glass. AMD is a intel buyers best friend.