[CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help

Thomas Dukes tdukes at sc.rr.com
Wed Aug 24 02:15:21 UTC 2011


 

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> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Hardware upgrade help
> 
> On 08/23/11 6:40 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote:
> > I saw the i7's but I'm getting confused about dual core. Is the i7 
> > thing a new speed instead of Mghz?
> 
> the Core I series comes in a series of different processor 
> subfamilies, I3, I5, I7... and individual members of each of 
> these has different specs.  and they bridge 2 complete chip 
> micr-architectures
> 
> and to make it even MORE complex, there's "Nehalem" Core 
> I3/5/7 and "Sandy Bridge" Core I3/5/7.
> 
> here, easier than explaining it all, its kinda confusing how 
> many models there are.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core#Nehalem_microarchitect
> ure_based
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core#Sandy_Bridge_microarch
> itecture_based
> 
> 
> For instance, the Core I7 920-960 family were Nehalem 
> microarchitecture 
> based 2.67 to 3.33 GHz 4-core 8MB cache CPUs.
> The I7 970-990 are 6 core 3.2-3.5Ghz 12MB cache Nehalem (and 
> obscenely 
> expensive).
> 
> The I7-2600 is the new Sandy Bridge guts, this time with 
> 3.4GHz, 6 cores
> 
> nehalem and sandy bridge CPUs require different motherboards.
> 
> The I5 and I3 are smaller/slower versions of the above.  For 
> instance, a 
> Core I3-2100 is a "Sandy Bridge" 3.1Ghz 2-core
> 
> confused yet?

OK, tell me again what we talikng about?? :-)




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