Intel I7 a big leap in processors?

**seireikhaan** · 03-14-2009, 16:31

Here is a review of the fairly recent I7 chipset released by Intel. Is this really as big a leap as I've heard? Will processing really improve substantially over, say, a hardcore quad core?

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 03-14-2009, 17:31

Well, I have heard people who play Empire say this is one of the few processors that uses all it's cores (four).

**Husar** · 03-14-2009, 21:42

from the benchmarks I saw on release it was not impressive to me but then impressive is subjective and I haven't really looked at any newer benchmarks, mostly because gaming performance is more limited by graphicscards nowadays so the CPU isn't all that important as long as it's reasonably new.

**Beskar** · 03-15-2009, 00:17

Don't bother with I7 if you are making a computer from scratch for a gaming rig, it's the last of the 45mn processors. At this rate, wait for the release of the 35mn processors which will come out in 6months-year's time.

**Lemur** · 03-15-2009, 04:14

What's got me drooling is the prospect of a serious price drop in the LGA 775 compatible processors once the I7 gains popularity. My gaming beast has life in her yet ...