Core i7-860 Tested: Faster than Core i7-920

[Unknownm]

According to what we’ve learned, Intel Core i7-860 and Core i7-920 are priced same as $275, and Many of you might be curious about which one is more cost-efficient. The Core i7-860 has a clock speed of 2.8GHz and a TDP of 95W, while Core i7-920 operates at 2.66GHz with a TDP of 130W.
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[Chilly]

Not terribly surprising at stock speeds since the 860 is clocked higher

[Arinoth]

How wouldn't something that is clocked FASTER not be faster.

Also, spelling fail located within the report:

According to the test run by the Turkish website Donanimhaber, Core i7-860 outperforms Core i7-920 in almost all the benchmarks, especially winning a great vitory in power consumption section.

[MpG]

I don't believe anything else was ever promised. You pretty much need a memory bottleneck, a PCI-E bottleneck, or a HT software advantage for the i7 to pull ahead, clock-for-clock.

[MpG]

Originally Posted by Arinoth

Also, spelling fail located within the report:

Dude, it's a Turkish site. Would that all online Canadians would spell that well.

[gingerbee]

overclock both then see who wins?

[Arinoth]

Originally Posted by MpG

Dude, it's a Turkish site. Would that all online Canadians would spell that well.

No, they are linking the results from a Turkish site, the author of it appears to be American or at least an English first language person

Originally Posted by gingerbee

overclock both then see who wins?

Good call on that one

[BobbyLou]

the 860 is a better cpu in general the x58 platform is really a server platform that was merged to consumer enthusiast platform to pry money out of wallets for unneeded performance. Unfortunatley, I was one of those enthusiasts.

But, in general P55>x58 in everything but PCI-E bandwith

[r0bc]

Originally Posted by BobbyLou

the 860 is a better cpu in general the x58 platform is really a server platform that was merged to consumer enthusiast platform to pry money out of wallets for unneeded performance. Unfortunatley, I was one of those enthusiasts.

But, in general P55>x58 in everything but PCI-E bandwith

As someone thats just going i7 I really hope your wrong....but from what I've seen so far your probably right

[ToXic]

Originally Posted by BobbyLou

the 860 is a better cpu in general the x58 platform is really a server platform that was merged to consumer enthusiast platform to pry money out of wallets for unneeded performance. Unfortunatley, I was one of those enthusiasts.

But, in general P55>x58 in everything but PCI-E bandwith

Nice thing about all that power is the "impossible" to run games run like a mouse on crack now... I don't care if I'm sold server stuff hell a dual zeon board to me is just like a ungaurded stash of cookies, it's temping but once your done and theirs chocolate everyware it's time to pick up the mess and start anew.

It would be cool to have a multi blade server with like 20 cores and 10 gpus though... But 7 only supports 2 physical cores sofar.

The fact is Intel won't quit because they take prided in putting the seperatist party (AMD) down but you just know one day AMD will crank out a massive **** you to intel and crush them.

Just my 2.5 cents