They are just trying to confuse people now. Considering Nvidia have cards called the 7900 GT/XT/INXS and ATI have the X1950 etc. it's hardly a helpful name.
Oh come on who actually writes games that make full use of this power? While there is a strong games market on the PC the majority of titles are made to be cross ported to the various consoles to ensure maximum returns, therefore the physics and processing in a game are going to be limited to the least powerful processor installed in the current generation of machines.
Everybody knows the real candy comes from a powerful graphics card. Until we enter the era of real time ray tracing or voxels decide to make a return CPU's like this are just overkill.
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
Intel Core i5 750 Qaud Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5 GT/s Bus, Socket H LGA1156)
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
Intel shows off X7900 CPU
edward wright
Shipping now #
Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 14:48 GMT
... in an iMac near you.
Anonymous Coward
Oh the unoriginality! #
Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 16:01 GMT
Oh ffs sake!
They are just trying to confuse people now. Considering Nvidia have cards called the 7900 GT/XT/INXS and ATI have the X1950 etc. it's hardly a helpful name.
Have a thought for us simpletons please!
Anonymous Coward
Strange... #
Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 16:40 GMT
I've been sitting in front of one of them since this morning. Or maybe I'm just hallucinating again...
kain preacher
video card #
Posted Wednesday 22nd August 2007 20:52 GMT
I went into this article thinking it was about a video card
Anonymous Coward
Doh! #
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 05:05 GMT
Not only can I look forward to more customers confusing Windows XP and Office XP, but a 7900GTX and X7900...
No, really... Thanks!
Neil
mmmm #
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 16:17 GMT
Oh come on who actually writes games that make full use of this power? While there is a strong games market on the PC the majority of titles are made to be cross ported to the various consoles to ensure maximum returns, therefore the physics and processing in a game are going to be limited to the least powerful processor installed in the current generation of machines.
Everybody knows the real candy comes from a powerful graphics card. Until we enter the era of real time ray tracing or voxels decide to make a return CPU's like this are just overkill.
Adam White
X7900 #
Posted Thursday 23rd August 2007 16:17 GMT
Don't worry, I reckon 99% of resellers will just call it a "2.8 GHz Intel Core2 Duo" or whatever. The X7900 stuff is just for hardware geeks.