[Kal-EL]

Gulftown Product Name and Tentative Price Surfaces
Contrary to older reports, Intel will stick to the Core i7 brand identifier to sell its first consumer (client) six-core processor based on the Nehalem architecture, codenamed "Gulftown". The first offering of these socket LGA-1366 processors, is the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition. Its positioning and pricing shows that Intel will replace its current flagship desktop processor, the Core i7 975 Extreme Edition with it, and at the very same price-point of US $999 (in 1000 unit tray quantities).

A future price list also shows that the Core i7 980X Extreme Edition is slated for March 2010. A month ahead of its launch, Intel will introduce the Core i7 930, which succeeds the Core i7 920 at its price-point of $284. The Gulftown core will be manufactured on Intel's brand new 32 nm HKMG process, it features 6 processing cores with 12 threads (HyperThreading Technology), triple-channel DDR3 memory with its integrated memory controller, 6.4 GT/s QPI link to the Intel X58 Express chipset, 12 MB of L3 cache, compatibility to platforms that support the Core i7 9xx processors, and 130W TDP. The Core i7 980X Extreme Edition comes with a clock speed of 3.33 GHz, The Core i7 930 on the other hand, is a quad-core processor which runs at 2.80 GHz.

Sources: PCOnline.com.cn, ZOL.com.cn

Product names and tennative pricing

[DrNip]

I had probs viewing pics as well as accessing one of the sites. Here is a post at Fudzilla about the same.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16828/1/

[karmakazi]

Wow props to Intel. They're getting it out early and at a few hundred less than rumored for the EE!

Its really too bad the newer revisions arent OC'ing on LN2 like the early ES processors were.

[Neuromancer]

http://www.techpowerup.com/110474/Gu..._Surfaces.html

That 930 looks interesting. 1 extra multiplier means another 220ish MHz for the lucky OCer

[Witchdoctor]

I am on the 930 train the day of release ...... 12 threads of Prime Time ....

Always to poor to go with the EE........................

[karmakazi]

930 is 4c/8t not 6/12 unfortunately... Just a 1x bump in multi. So it will top out about 220-240mhz higher depending on cooling

[Witchdoctor]

My bad read through that wrong...

Hope the new six core beast falls into my budget ... I would love to have one in my rig ....

I was hoping for a 6 core bottom end preformer like the 920DO .... was for the quads