Game-Teched

Recently, as we all know, intel came out with their i series processors, the 3, 5, and 7, and they were a huge leap from their older processors, the core duo series. These processors boasted either dual or quad-core capabilities with the later reserved for higher end i5 and nearly all i7 models.

On top of this though, intel recently released a new type of processor in the i7 family, a 6 core.

While six core processors aren't exactly a new thing, for one they've been around for a long time with companies like Cray, as well as many servers for larger corporations use them because of their abilities to quickly sort through information. What surprises me is the fact that they are making a pc version of it, and more importantly, a gaming version. That is what they say that this model is atleast.

While I love my i7 quad core to death, I do realize that it isn't the best gaming processor on earth, and that I could've gotten a phenom for a better price, the fact remains that it is much much better for video editing, because of it's amazing abilities of hyperthreading, but with the introduction of the first sandy bridge models of the i7's, where intel promised us a purely gaming processor and they delivered, with these pumping out great numbers and feedback.

This new six core is also a sandy bridge model, but it is stock 3.33ghz, but factory overclocked to 3.66, and is efficient enough to keep this below 50-60C on a non liquid cooled system, with the ability to boost it up to 4.3 quite easily, which is crazy for a quad let alone a 6.

Even more impressive than this things stats is it's price tag. Coming in a whopping 1000$, it is one of the most expensive desktop processors out there. This price is dropping which is a good sign though, maybe soon these will be the next dual core that we all think are obsolete and we'll have as much computing power at our hands as the researchers at NASA currently do.