Intel Core i7 launched

Intel Core 17 processors have finally been launched worldwide. 

Prakash Bagri, Director - Marketing, Intel South Asia said, "Intel has delivered the fastest desktop processor on Earth to the most demanding users on Earth, the ones who are using their PCs for video, gaming and music. When you couple, what is Intel's biggest leap in chip design, with other incredible innovations like Intel's solid state drives, the Core i7 processor has refined the computer of tomorrow". 

Combined with the Intel X58 chipset-based motherboards with LGA1366 socket, these are incompatible with older motherboards. Currently, these can only be used with motherboards based on the Intel X58 chipset. 

Intel has released three different models of the Core i7 - all quad core variants with hyper-threading : 

* Core i7 920 clocked at 2.66 GHz priced at $284 (approximately Rs.14,063), 

* Core i7 940 clocked at 2.66 GHz priced at $562 (approximately Rs.27,830), 

* Core i7 965 XE (Extreme Edition) clocked at 3.2 GHz priced at $999 (approximately Rs.49,470)