Reviews - Pro-Clockers! PC Reviews One MegaHertz At A Time

The first Lynnfield chiips to be unveiled will be models Core i7-870 (4 cores, 8 threads, 8MB cache, 2.93GHz clock-speed), Core i7-860 (4 cores, 8 threads, 8MB cache, 2.80GHz clock-speed) and Core i5-750 (4 cores, 4 threads, 8MB cache, 2.66GHz clock-speed) that will cost $562, $284 and $196, respectively. At present Intel Core i7-950 (4 cores, 8 threads, 8MB cache, 3.06GHz clock-speed) is priced at $562 and on October 18, 2009, Intel plans to introduce Core i7-960 chip (4 cores, 8 threads, 8MB cache, 3.2GHz clock-speed) at that price-point.

In Q1 2010 Intel will start to roll-out the first energy-efficient chips – with 82W TDP – based on Nehalem micro-architecture: the first two chips in the new family will be Core i7-860S (4 cores, 8 threads, 8MB cache, 2.53GHz clock-speed) and Core i7-750S (4 cores, 4 threads, 8MB cache, 2.40GHz clock-speed) that will cost $337 and $259, respectively, in business quantities. XbitLabs