VR World » lga-775 http://www.vrworld.com Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:54:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 Core i7 is much bigger than Core 2 or Phenom http://www.vrworld.com/2008/11/19/core-i7-is-much-bigger-than-core-2-or-phenom/ http://www.vrworld.com/2008/11/19/core-i7-is-much-bigger-than-core-2-or-phenom/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:00:59 +0000 http://theovalich.wordpress.com/?p=492 During the past couple of days, quite a few friends and acquaintances asked me about the differences in packaging between Core 2 and i7 series ...

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]]> During the past couple of days, quite a few friends and acquaintances asked me about the differences in packaging between Core 2 and i7 series of processors. It seems that there is belief that there is no need to replace the motherboard (huh? New CPU Socket people – yes, you have to replace the motherboard).

Could it be that Nehalem (right) has the same issue as Phenom (on the left), Core 2 Duo (middle)? We won't see AMD on LGA for quite some time (2011), but just look at the difference in number of dots on Intel CPU's!

But also, I failed to find a good Core 2 vs. i7 vs. Phenom shot on the internet, so there you go.
On the left, we have AMD Phenom X4 9850+ Black Edition, middle spot is taken by Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 and Core i7 Extreme 965 is on the right. As you can see in the picture above, this is one of largest Intel CPUs, if we exclude Slot 1 processors.
But even more important than Socket LGA-1366 is the fact that this baby packs some serious horsepower. I will deploy this Core i7 as the main rig from now on, and my Spider system (Phenom 9950BE, ASUS 790GX) is going to take a role of development server for the new site. This weekend will be fun, putting 64-bit Windows Server 2008, Adobe’s Creative Studio 4 Master Collection, .NET 3.5, Eclipse and Silverlight 2 SDK and other shenanigans. ;-)

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