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[jlhaslip]

cicala, on May 17 2009, 04:23 AM, said:

The i7 is still for gamers. Alot of gamers get it cause of the 8 cores lol

Windows i7 is an Operating System. It has nothing to do with the Cores on the chipset running i7.
The Processor has the cores in it. The i7 Operating System 'manages' multiple core chipsets.

[k_nitin_r]

Hi!

You're mistaken there - Windows 7 is an operating system and the Intel Core i7 is a processor! The Intel Core i7 processor has 4 or 8 cores, depending on the model you are looking at. Windows 7 is available as an RTM version, with the final release expected on 22nd October, 2009.

Regards,
Nitin Reddy

[k_nitin_r]

@johnpitter

You seem to be making a mistake that the original thread poster seems to have made as well. You cannot compare the Pentium 4 line of processors with the AMD brand because they are two different things. You can compare a specific processor from the Intel brand with a specific processor from the AMD brand. Also, there are some types of calculations that AMD processors tend to perform better while there are other types of calculations that Intel prcessors tend to perform better so if you have any code, you can optimize it for a particular processor such that it performs better on one processor rather than on the other.

If you are looking at the best performance from a processor, the Intel Core i7 995X can give you unmatched performance and the closest you can get from an AMD processor is with the AMD Opteron 6176 SE.

Most processors sold are from Intel as they have a majority of the market share and if you look at the closest that AMD did get to taking away the lead, it would be in 2006. Since 2006, AMD's market share has been declining but continues to remain over 20%.