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Intel and NVIDIA’s New Performance Parts
by David
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by David
Intel and NVIDIA have both been busy on the next generation of high performance parts:
Intel has listed the Core i7-970 CPU. Retailing at $900, this chip has six hyperthreaded cores at 3.2 GHz, 12 MB of cache and is made using a 32 nm process. It still plays second fiddle to the 980X which is 133 MHz faster and possesses a faster (6.4 GT/s vs 4.8 GT/s) QPI speed. It ought to be a cheaper alternative, however, and once the new chip is in the hands of overclockers we might see the performance gap narrowed significantly. The i7-970 is currently $100 less than it's big brother. The release of this chip comes along with price drops on some lines and discontinuation of others, according to Fudzilla.
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