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The Lynnfield Preview: Rumblings of Revenge

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The breakdown seems pretty simple: if you’re the type of person who bought the Q6600/Q9300, then Lynnfield may be the Nehalem for you. Lynnfield, today, looks very good. Enable all of its turbo modes and I believe Intel has another winner on its hands. When Nehalem first launched I complained that the move to a smaller L2 cache kept it from significantly outperforming Penryn in some applications and games. With Lynnfield's turbo modes I believe my complaints will be addressed; need better performance in games? Turbo mode solves that. In many ways, Lynnfield could end up being even more significant than Core i7 ever was.
Penryn was always good, Bloomfield was nice to talk about but Lynnfield may end up being the one you marry.
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AnandTech: The Lynnfield Preview: Rumblings of Revenge
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^^ to be honest, I was expecting it.

Lynnfield was always going to pawn Penryns and Phenoms II. but I won't write off AMD yet, not now when they have a quite decent chip in Phenom II. It is believed that AMD is tweaking and fine-tuning phenom II chips to meet the challenge and talk of lower TDP and more overclocking headroom is quite strong.

But of course, you have to hand it over to Intel for keeping the Core juggernaut rolling :ohyeah:
 
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why didn't they include i7 940 in the benches?

this seems a good upgrade for the people who decided to give nehalem a skip.
 
Finally something for me, i always had that premonition of i5 to be real good. Anandtech proved my premonitions right. :P

I feel this would a worthwhile jump for people still waiting to pounce on i7.

But the pricing is pretty confusing in the article.

Intel Core i7-920 (2.66GHz) $284

Intel Lynnfield 2.80GHz $284 :|

They should have made the lynnfield 2.80Ghz a bit cheaper if there is a performance gap between 920 and i5, right ?
 
Mobos will be cheaper.IMO lynnfield and i7 wont have substantial gap in performance.There's better turbo mode in lynnfield than i7.
 
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Finally something for me, i always had that premonition of i5 to be real good. Anandtech proved my premonitions right. :P

I feel this would a worthwhile jump for people still waiting to pounce on i7.

But the pricing is pretty confusing in the article.

Intel Core i7-920 (2.66GHz) $284

Intel Lynnfield 2.80GHz $284 :|

They should have made the lynnfield 2.80Ghz a bit cheaper if there is a performance gap between 920 and i5, right ?
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well, Lynfield @ 2.80 will probably match or surpass i7 920 (except in the tasks which make use of HT) and will do that with lower platform cost. Pushing it further down on price bracket will kill i7 920.
 
Intel Lynnfield 2.66Ghz @ 10k

P55 mobo @ 5k

This will OWN any vfm(cpu+mobo) combination imo ^^
 
i7 is much better than the i5:|

Intel playing games....huh EOL for 920/940 soon and guess wt they have used same specs of 920 added support of ECC and renamed to xeon.
 
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nope. the xeon nehalems were released alongside I guess, yet they are culling off the entry level i7 range and only supporting ee bloomfields.

they may even announce eol on the cheapo xeon i7s

only if the cheapo i5s could clock > 4 gigs with only a slight bump in vcore would they be an interesting proposition.

Its gonna get a lot worse before it becomes better.
 
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i7 is much better than the i5:|
Intel playing games....huh EOL for 920/940 soon and guess wt they have used same specs of 920 added support of ECC and renamed to xeon.
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I really dont think there should be much different between i5 and the much sought after entry level i7 processors atleast.

It would be as good as a Core2Duo vs Core2Extreme if i am not wrong ?
 
Nah, there will be a definite gap between i5 and i7. Early nos with turbo mode and HT disabled ( what setting they used for 920 is not shown in charts, i havent yet read the article)

I just hope Intel does not screw up the i7 adoptors by only keeping really high end chips on this platform.

I still think Intel made a mistake by using two sockets this time around.

Now they are trying to keep i7 high end exclusive and killing good processors like 920 to make way for i5. This will be good for their i5 business but current i7 users will be both pleased and little pissed.

i5 wont exactly be cheap and will cost same as current entry level i7 chips and wont be able match their overall performance....
 
Just cured me of upgraditis! I was plannin to jump to the i7 950 sometime July.
The peek under the hood by Anand looks promising, especially since he is using an engineering sample.
Agree completely with Funky when he says that First gen upgraders to i7 gonna be pissed.
 
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