Intel Corei7 950 overclocking performance

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Intel has upgraded Corei7 lineup and released Core i7-950 and Core i7-975EE.950 is expected to replace current Core i7-940;while Core i7-975EE will takes place of Core i7-965EE.Today,we saw a player from Coolaler make Core i7-950 overclock to 5.185GHz.

3.06GHz Core i7-950 is 130MHz higher than Core i7-940.It has 8M of L3 cache?130W of TDP with the price tag [...]

Intel D-0 Stepping Core i7-920

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

In February Intel indicated that it’s initiating a C-0 to D-0 stepping conversion for the Intel Core i7-920 processor.

Intel D-0 Stepping Core i7-920
The overclocking performance of D-0 Core i7-920 is superior to that of C0/C1 stepping. New stepping Core i7-920 features a few changes including S-Spec from SLBCH to SLBEJ, and the CPU ID from [...]

Intel Core i7 Nehalem launching on November 17

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Intel provided information about its next-generation micro-architecture (Nehalem) with the Core i7 processors at a media event on Wednesday in Athens, Greece, prior to the worldwide official release of the system on November 17.
Intel Core i7 Nehalem launching on November 17

The event ran under the headline of “the fastest processor on the planet”. The two [...]

Core i7 overclocked to 4.2GHz

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Because Core i7 Extreme has multiplier unlocked, so overclockers can easily OC to 4.2GHz by pulling up the multiplier. But like Phenom, the bus speed can not boost a lot. So we’d better drop our thought, they are not Core 2 anymore, so we may not have chance to see 500MHz+ bus speed.

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