Power Consumption

The new i7-975 draws a little more power than its predecessor. I measured 220W under load for the entire system. Note that Intel's top end dual-core Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 955 actually draws more power than the Core i7-975. That's ridiculous.

Idle Power Consumption

Load Power Consumption - x264 HD Bench Pass 1

Gaming Performance Overclocking
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  • BSMonitor - Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - link

    Are you on crack? Lynnfield is a Nehalem without the tri-channel memory controller... Lynnfield is cheaper by $100 at the same speed bin and runs cooler. Some benchmarks on ES put the Lynnfield faster than Nehalem counterparts where the single/dual threaded apps make use of the more generous turbo mode...

    Put the reefer down and actually read the article. Lynnfield is 2 months away and already crushing any Phenom II or Penryn and as fast as its Nehalem counterparts at $100 cheaper.
  • iamezza - Friday, June 5, 2009 - link

    As weird as it seems TA152H is actually an i7 platform Fanboy!
  • philosofool - Thursday, June 4, 2009 - link

    Yeah: he's on crack.
  • nitromullet - Thursday, June 4, 2009 - link

    I was asking because I want the flexibility of Crossfire and SLI on the same motherboard, which is something the Lynnfield/P55 platform will not provide. I'm worried that Intel will phase out the 920's, and I'll be left having to a $600ish cpu to get into the X58 platform.

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