[Fat.Clown]

From $176 to $284

This time we are talking about the remaining CPUs from the Core i5 branding category for desktops and in early January Intel plans to launch five new parts.

Since the Core i5 brand is already out as a quad-core, we are certain that this announcement will bring some additional confusion over what are you buying. The slowest of the dual-core desktop clan is Core i5 650 and this one works at 3.2GHz, has two cores and four thread support as well as 4MB cache. It will start selling on the January 3rd for $176, wholesale price.

The faster brother is Core i5 660. It shares the same spec but works at 3.33GHz and should sell for $196.For the same money you will get Core i5 661 that shares the same spec but doesn't support SIPP 2010 and if you want the best dual-core you will have to reach for Core i5 670 and get yourself a 3.46GHz CPU that will debut for $284.

Fudzilla

it gets confusing indeed

[Trotter]

Welcome to the world of Intel.

[james.wired]

So there's i5 quad and soon to be i5 duals? Argh...just change it to i3 or something...****...

[Puddle Jumper]

They will be releasing i3 also, they will be dual cores without hyperthreading.

Basicaly
i3= 2 threads
i5= 4 threads
i7= 8 threads
i9= 12 threads

[james.wired]

Ok. So the i5 is 4 cores no hyperthreading, and the new i5 duals will be 2 cores with hyperthreading?

[Puddle Jumper]

^^Yeah. For some reason they decided to use the series names to refer to the number of threads instead of the number of cores.

[Peter.Cort]

they need to just wipe the naming scheme and redo it... have the i2's and the i4's and then name them appropriately and have them all be similar with the high end proc's having hyperthreading and the lower end proc's not...

and at least they don't confuse the naming scheme even more by porting over old proc's and putting them in the same series... e8400 ==> i1 anyone???

[Trotter]

i2 = dual cores
i4 = quad cores
i6 = six cores
etc.

i2-HT = dual core w/hyper-threading
i4-HT = quad core w/hyper-threading
i6-HT = six cores w/hyper-threading
etc.

i2-HT-1156 = dual core w/hyper-threading, socket 1156
i4-HT-1156 = quad core w/hyper-threading, socket 1156
i4-HT-1366 = quad core w/hyper-threading, socket 1366
i6-HT-1366 = six cores w/hyper-threading, socket 1366
etc.

At least this would be a lot easier than the current monstrosity. The funny thing is that the new iX nomenclature was "supposed" to make everything simpler. I laughed at it then, and I laugh at it now.

[Peter.Cort]

Exactly trotter!!! And they could just advertise them as i2/i4 etc... and then when you want to buy specifics have them listed with specifics.

[james.wired]

Originally Posted by Trotter

i2 = dual cores
i4 = quad cores
i6 = six cores
etc.

i2-HT = dual core w/hyper-threading
i4-HT = quad core w/hyper-threading
i6-HT = six cores w/hyper-threading
etc.

i2-HT-1156 = dual core w/hyper-threading, socket 1156
i4-HT-1156 = quad core w/hyper-threading, socket 1156
i4-HT-1366 = quad core w/hyper-threading, socket 1366
i6-HT-1366 = six cores w/hyper-threading, socket 1366
etc.

At least this would be a lot easier than the current monstrosity. The funny thing is that the new iX nomenclature was "supposed" to make everything simpler. I laughed at it then, and I laugh at it now.

+1,000,000 to this. Seriously I don't understand what's in their heads when the come up with the naming pattern. Or wait...there's no pattern.