Core i7-990X Extreme Edition

[vbironchef]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819115079 This looks sweet. Really not much of a increase in speed. Anyone know when the 32nm chips will be out?

[Sttm]

Aren't all intel hexacore chips 32nm?

I think its a hugely stupid product. The 2600K is probably still at least 20% faster core to core, and should over clock an extra 300-400 mhz higher. So the benefit of spending the extra $700 seems really suspect.

[InspectahACE]

yes they're 32nm...If i saw this before purchasing a new rig, I would've got this instead..oh well...

[vbironchef]

oh yea, I forget. I agree with you 100% except for the 6 cores. Ok, so any idea when the next chips come out. My reason for asking is I want to upgrade my Qx6700 cpu. So I would like a good upgrade over my i7 980x chip. Yes I know I will need new motherboard and memory.

[Sttm]

Looks like Q4 2011.

Toms has a news article on it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Sandy- ... 12179.html

[vbironchef]

Good post! Confussed yes! What do you suggest I do? wait and see or when newegg starts selling the 1155 chipset again buy it? 2600K does seem very good.

[Sttm]

The revised chipsets might start shipping this week. So it shouldnt be long before they are available again on New Egg. I would definitely get a 2600K to replace the QX6700. The performance gain with the hexacore is only in certain heavily threaded applications and then not even that much.

For the extra $700 it would cost you, you could equip that system with 2 of Corsairs new P3 SSDs in raid 0, having 250gb of storage with a 940 MB/s read speed which would give a much better speed boost in my opinion. Or you could drop in dual GTX 570s. So many better ways to get more performance with the cost difference.