Thread: Intel Core i7-870 CPU.

When it established last year, the Core i7 platform defined Intel's high-end CPU segment. unluckily, the platform was also went with by high-end costs. As such, it has seen just a minimal contribution of the desktop market. However, Intel has published a new platform that it claims will bring the functioning of Nehalem to mainstream cost points.

Concerned to as Lynnfield, the newly platform contributions its core microarchitecture with the i7-900 series, but brings in a completely novel chipset and socket plan. This entails that not just will we assure new CPUs, but new CPU board as well. Benchmark Reviews has been trying out several of these new items and will be covering the establish in detail over the following few days. In this article, we examine the Intel Core i7-870 Quad Core CPU model BX80605I7870.



Of the 3 CPUs established this week under the Lynnfield platform, the Core i7-870 is regarded the high-end component. All 3 chips are based on the same die, characteristic eight MB of shared cache, and are packaged utilizing the new LGA 1156 socket. They also characteristic a new edition of Intel's Turbo Boost Technology that dynamically overclocks the individual CPU cores depending on workload. At 2.93 GHz, although, the Core i7-870 boasts the highest clock speed of the 3. As an i7-800 series model, it also characteristics Hyper-Threading for a total of eight threads.

It should be a formula for success, but we'll discover out for sure in the benchmarking division. 1 would hope that the i7-870 lives up to the hype. It's surely a far cry from mainstream as Intel proposes. Compared to the i7-900 series, still, the i7-870 does have the advantage of utilizing the novel P55 chipset.