The Intel's Core i7 project: Nehalem has debut, but is it marketable cost effectively? As always, Upon release the price tag is all but subtle however; the i7 920 processor may have a few tricks up its sleeve. This Processor has enormous overclocking potential. Would the extra cost be worth the gain in performance?
The Proving grounds have arrived. In the Previous month, we unleashed a $1300 gamer PC based on the X38 platform utilizing an E8500 CPU and combined with AMD’s flagship Radeon 4870 X2 card and got amazing performance. However by switching to the Radeon 4850 X2 we were able to maintaine our budget without a major sacrifice in results.
Maintaining a similar budget while using the X58 platform and Core i7 CPU was not a very easy task, so how did we do it? By downgrading the video to a similar yet older Video Card. Besides that we were able to use the stock cpu fan rather than a luxry aftermarket cooler. The Xigmatek HDTS1283 was last month’s choice for the project.
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