When purchasing a new Intel Core i5 or i7 Processor, Motherboard Bundle or System you will receive a voucher entitling you to a FREE* download of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising for PC.
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Ultimate Intelligence and Breakthrough Technologies Maximise your Computing Speed and Possibilities
Hardcore multitaskers rejoice. The Intel® Core™ i7 processor delivers maximum processing power in response to peak demands. You'll fly through everything you do on your PC - from playing intense 3D games to creating and editing digital video, music and photos. With Intel® Turbo Boost and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology, you get intelligent performance when you need it most.
You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. In fact, you'll experience a maximum level of performance for everything you do and for years to come. |
This is a Socket 1366 Processor requiring a Socket 1366 Motherboard, this item is NOT compatible with the Socket 1156 Core i7 Motherboards
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The new D0 stepping (SLBEJ) Intel Core i7-920 CPU brings an unlocked multiplayer and lower temperatures to give you more room for eXtreme overclocking!!! |
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*When Overclocking we strongly recommend an after-market CPU cooler. Take a look at our full range of Intel Core i7 CPU coolers by clicking here.
Damaged caused to your system and/or other compents as a result overclocking will void your warrenty. Please consult the manafature for more infomation. |
Brilliantly fast
With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance.
You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. And you'll experience maximum performance for everything you do, thanks to the combination of Intel Turbo Boost technology and Intel Hyper-Threading technology (Intel HT technology), which maximizes performance to match your workload.
- Product Family : Intel Core i7 Processor
- Lithography: 45 nm
- Number of Cores: 4
- Intel Hyper-Threading Technology: Yes
- Intel Virtualization Technology: Yes
- Intel 64 Architecture: Yes
- Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology: Yes
- Intel Turbo Boost Technology: Yes
- Demand Based Switching: Yes
- Execute Disable Bit: Yes
- Max TDP: 130 Watts
- Core Voltage: 0.800V-1.225V
Nehalem is a radically new design for Intel: for the first time they have a 'native' quad-core CPU, where all four cores sit on the same piece of silicon. With its Core 2 CPUs, Intel used two dual-Core dies to create a quad-core chip, this translates into better performance. Nehalem features Level 3 cache, something seen earlier Xeon server chips, but Intel Core i7s will feature up to a massive 8MB (shared between all four cores). Each of Nehalem's four cores has 256KB of lower-latency Level 2 cache.
The Level 3 cache of Nehalem is described as being ‘inclusive’, meaning that it holds the data of all the Level 2 caches. This means that if a core needs to fetch data, and it doesn’t find it in the Level 3 cache, it can be confident that the most up-to-date version of that data is held in system memory and fetch straight from there. If the Level 3 cache wasn’t inclusive, the core would first have to look at the cache of the other three cores to ensure that none of them had a more recent version of the data it needs. An inclusive cache is therefore said by Intel to be more efficient than an ‘exclusive’ cache design, even if it does mean that 1MB of Nehalem’s 8MB Level 3 cache is taken up by storing a copy of the 256KB Level 2 cache inside each processing core, again this translates into a performance gain over Intels previous designs.
Intel has integrated the memory controller onto the Nehalem CPU die rather than having it be part of the Northbridge on the motherboard. It's achieved this by modularising the design of the CPU. The seperate processing cores and caches are linked to the onboard memory controller via a new bus standard called QuickPath (sometimes called QPI, short for QuickPath Interconnect). As QuickPath replaces the Frontside Bus (FSB) and Northbridge combo, it also takes over the role of allowing the CPU to connect to other system components, busses and controllers such as the PCI Express controller and DDR3 memory.
The last big news about Nehalem is that it uses Hyper-Threading. This technology works just as it did with the Pentium 4, using spare resources of a processing core to try to execute a second process thread. This means that a quad-core Nehalem processor can accept and attempt to process eight threads simultaneously, making it even more massively parallel than the current Core 2 Quad CPUs. |
