Intel i7 core – The Extreme at Extremities

Intel i7 core is made not to live up to hype, they are born to far exceed them. The Intel i7 core chip lineup includes Intel i7 core 920, Intel i7 core 940 and Intel i7 core 965 - The Extreme Edition which runs at a whopping speed of 3.2 GHz. The main featureset includes a feature called Unlocked Multiplier which simplifies the process of overclocking the processor and gain access to Raw power. It also has QuickPath Communication Bus which is far more better than the Normal FSB.

This chip is a bit bigger in size than the Core 2 Duo chip and the only architecture supporting this wonderful processor is Intel X58 chipset. The chip is built using the 45 nanometer wafer technology and brought back the days of Pentium 4 which supported Hyper Threading Techology. So if you check out the Windows, it will show 8 processor cores. There are numerous enhancements including these which has made the i7 core a topper in the list of other processors. Though, advantages comes at a price and that is a heavy USD 999 in the case of this processor.

The Least change is seen in the Media Encoding as it only utilizes 2 cores of the processor. But the Sony Vegas Video editing test shows that this processor is undoubtly the best in terms of output time. The test also shows that the Rendering time is 33% less as compared to the Core 2 Extreme.

These benchmarks are topped by Intel i7 core 965-Extreme Edition. Another surprise is that i7 core 920 also outperforms the predecessor Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770. Other Benchmarks tests are also topped by i7 core extreme which includes individual times of Adobe Photoshop, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office and Others. And this undoubtedly proves Intel i7 core Extreme to be the fastest processor till date.