Intel's Core i7-2630QM Sandy Bridge Spotted

Dang it Intel...Why does Asia have it beofre US? We engineered it, shouldn't we have it first hand?

cause of the US companies offshoring work to 3rd world countries to save money. Dont like that vote for people who will cut the capital gains and corporate taxes. That's ALWAYS stimulated growth in the economy because it makes doing business here CHEAPER.

I understand the outsourcing, and couldn't really vote for the idiot polititians at all. They are all crazy.

Anyways. The Intel team in Hillsboro Oregon, should be the ones to have it first hand. They should be able to sample their work.

2.0 ghz? Really? Lame. Hope they have better models in store for us.

Yeah, because if the latest years showed us something it's that clock speed is the most important thing of all.

Yay, even newer chips that cost a small fortune and don't increase performance substantially over 3 year old chipsets. Maybe it's got some useless feature that sounds cool like HD stream decoding improvements.. Yawn.. :-/

Didn't clock speed have one of the biggest effects on plenty of games?

I'm sure that they do sample first, especially in beta testing. But as we all know, the employee who voluntarily/involuntarily leaks info about something they have doesn't last long at the company.



Not to mention that many end users don't require the same enthusiast speeds and prices as edilee seems to. Let's all spend $500 on a processor to pull up google's search browser each day.

They use the tax cuts to buy new plants in the 3rd world... You need to tax imports. We will have a war with China in the next few decades, I would rather have an economical one...

In that case they'll completely relocate outside the US rather than just outsource. And if you tax cheap imports from China, get ready to pay double the amount for just about anything.

If that processor beats a 4Ghz core i7 out now, I wouldn't mind a 2Ghz clock speed.

Processors need to lower their power consumption for laptops. Most people don't use the speed, and, personally, I would like a laptop to last about 24hrs without being plugged in.

It won't, though. Intel hasn't had enough time since the i7 launch to develop new architecture combined with a gpu to beat a single-job processor. This thing's doing 2 jobs in one, and while the power savings, and efficiency will improve drastically, it will be another few years until it surpasses the current system.

That processor won't be even close to i7 i920 running at 3.0Ghz let's say...just you know.

Turbo technology is joke, it overclocks only one core -> pretty useless.

Wow, 2ghz, that's amazing.

I thought turbo technology had settings for overclocking multiple cores? It's just not clocked as high. For instance when three cores are active they are bumped down one multiplier below what the clocks read when two cores are active. Does that sound about right?

They make it available to everyone at the same time, the Chinese are just fist to get a product using it to market.

In the tests I've done to compare a core 2 quad with an i5-750 at equal clock speeds, the i5 showed a 15% improvement in power. If they gain another 15% from the i5's to the sandinyourtoes processor then they should have much higher clock speeds. Well if they can turbo boost from 2.0 to 2.8 then that's a good start. They need some chips that will turbo boost from 2.8 to about 3.8 for power users.

I've owned a lot of computers, including 3 laptops, and the only one that wasn't fast enough is the new overclocked quad core I have at home, so I'll take all the cpu power they can give me.

Yup.

For instance.

i5 750
1.2 Idle
2.66 stock
2.8 with ALL cores loaded as long as power and temperature are in check.
2.8 with 3 cores loaded
3.0 with 2 cores loaded
3.2 with one core loaded

Of course other apps can take an extra core and have a single core app get only 3.0, but its a FREE boost and you can disable it and just overclock the old fashioned way still or even use both to some extent(FSB + turbo multiplier).

So much for only one core being overclocked huh?

Anyone else notice that the GPU listed in the device manager screenshot is an "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6570"? That's weird for two reasons:
1) I didn't know that card was available in any laptops yet.
2) I thought that the brand name was being changed from ATI to AMD starting with the 6xxx series.

That is my point. If it is avalable to china , It should be avalable to everyone. Why dose China have Priority over everyone else?

Ya I thought that was how it worked. I have a 750 with both a modest overclock and turbo boost enabled. I think the frequency range on mine is approximately 3.0 - 3.6 GHz depending on the number of cores being used. I think it's a pretty cool feature. Of course a lot of people will argue that a static overclock is better, but I just don't need a machine running at a constant 3.6 GHz or higher.

4 Cores running at 3.6 Ghz full time here with 35C temps average and no issues. Clock speed does matter with most everything. I want a gaming laptop come tax return time with one of these new SB I7s but 2Ghz does sound pretty weak to start. I want something that will own my gaming desktop so I guess I will have to spend about 3 grand to do that.

They dont have priority, they are just faster at getting it to market.

No you didn't...It is designed by the Intel lab in Israel.

Yeah still useless cause in realtime Turbo Overclock will give way below results of what true overclocking does and that's all cores overclocked all the time. For Laptops Turbo Overclock makes sense, but for desktop utter crap. Infact i suggest keeping CPU on desktop at full speed all the time.

Yeah still useless cause in realtime Turbo Overclock will give way below results of what true overclocking does and that's all cores overclocked all the time. For Laptops Turbo Overclock makes sense, but for desktop utter crap. Infact i suggest keeping CPU on desktop at full speed all the time.

With Sandy Bridge 'FSB' is locked so Intel can force Turbo Garbage. K series has unlocked multiplier but for what price? I have no idea why they have two sockets for the current i7 line and for the future Sandy Bridge. LGA1156 and LGA1366 sockets are about same price, and as far as CPU goes hell of better deal you can get with LGA1366 socket. Future Sandy Bridge is going to have LGA1155 and LGAXXXX versions. Intel just introduced LGA1156 and they are saying well you can throw that to garbage cause we have new motherboard with -1 pin. They have to be kidding me.

Labor and benefits costs way more than taxes ever do. Especially for large companies like intel who can lobby senators/reps to get their local, state and gov't taxes reduced to lower percentages than what small businesses and individuals pay. In their last quarter about 1/3 of their money went to material costs, another third to operating expenses (payroll, benefits, equipment etc). Only ~1/11th of revenues was lost to taxation (which was about 31% of EBIT). Intel saves far more by cutting employee and raw material costs than it ever does by shaving a few percentage points off of their tax rate. Intel manufactures in asia because they can get 1 month of work out of an employee there for the same amount it costs to pay for 1 day of work out of a US employee.

"Utter crap" lol. You must be playing the fool here. No one is arguing that if you want the most performance then you go for a static overclock. But for those that don't need a constant high clock rate, turbo boost is a GREAT feature.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 500-9.html

When I built and overclocked my computer, I kept referring to this article so that my processor was running as efficiently as possible. I won't be setting a faster static overclock until there is a game that my 750 can't handle. Until then, I will keep the slight overclock and turbo boost combo.

Yeah or stop giving companies that manufacture offshore breaks by excluding them from import tariffs. That way you can have your cake and eat it too by not having to vote republican to get companies to stop screwing over Americans.