It’s the holiday season, and that means it’s time to send yourself spiraling into crushing debt made possible by the power of plastic. While you could responsibly commit to a reasonable budget, we know that the seductive potential of a $600 PC that isn’t terrible may be too much for your feeble will. If you’re looking for a little rationalization to pull the trigger, chalk it up to aiding our abyss of an economy.
Techware Labs reviews the Intel E7200 processor.
t-break breaks down the ASUS Rampage II Extreme. It’s one of the hottest X58 boards on the market right now!
Hexus.tv overclocks the Core i7 with liquid nitrogen and air cooling.
The Smooth Creations Hellcat is another Core i7-rocking uber-system.
Guru3D recommends the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5P motherboard as a feature-packed X58 platform.
MadShrimps reviews the DFI X48-T3RS motherboard. It’s both rewarding and frustrating.
The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 has a 10.2″ screen, 1GB of RAM and an Atom processor.
Break open your piggy banks and get your credit cards handy; it’s Core i7 Day! Today is the day X58 motherboards and Intel’s new Nehalem processors finally go on sale in North America at all your favorite retailers.
On the cheap side, you can snag a MSI Platinum motherboard, Core i7 920 processor and 3GB of Kingston DDR3 for $665. That looks to be the cheapest way into the new system. Alternatively, you can break the bank with ASUS’s Rampage II Extreme at $400, 6GB of Corsair triple channel for $250, and a 965EE for $1,070 and be the envy of your geeky friends for the next week. Not bad for $1,720.
On launch day, the biggest news we can find is that Newegg is hurting for memory kits. Most of the 3 and 6GB kits are listed but out of stock suggesting they sold out in the early hours this morning due to high demand, or the memory companies are having a tough time pushing out product.
Right now, Fry’s Electronics stores are getting ready for the Core i7 release November 17 by stocking up on a few processors. The first wave is going to comprise the 920 at $300 and the 965 Extreme Edition at $1,200. But don’t get your hopes too high, currently they are only stocking one kit of triple channel RAM and no LGA 1366 motherboards.
(Ed. Note - Thanks to our inside man _k_ for the heads-up!)
Phoronix continues the series on Linux graphics performance, this time tackling Intel.
t-break overclocks the Core i7 965 EE Nehalem and recounts their experiences.
Nordic Hardware delves into the changes presented by Intel’s new Core 2 Duo E0 stepping. Mature hardware at its finest.
Intel announced today that it’s chopping $1 billion off its sales forecasts for the forth quarter of 2008. Previously, Intel had anticipated over $10 billion in sales during the last three months of the year. Now, they’re expecting $9 billion, but the 10 percent drop in expected revenues also comes with a cut into their profit margins which are expected to fall from 60 percent to 55 percent.
This news comes as a result of a rough market right now that’s affecting many companies. Recently, both Cisco and Lenovo also reported their sales have fallen by up to 78 percent.
It’s a short review, but Guru3D claims the ASUS P6T Deluxe X58 motherboard is nearly perfect.
