Smoking! The i7 920 2.66ghz is quite cheap, but you need an expensive motehrboard and 3 modules of DDR3 memory. Still it makes a Q6600 look sad and slow
http://www.overclock3d.net/news.php?/cp ... bench_10/1
At Intel's Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, they are currently showing off the computational power of the soon to be released Core i7 processors. Using the Cinebench R10 benchmark, which tests a processor's ability to render an image using multi-threading, the 3.2GHz Bloomfield on display blitzed trounced the benchmark by an insane margin.
Utilising four cores and eight threads, the CPU made short work of the benchmark in just 19 seconds and scoring more than 45,800 CB points.
By contrast, Core 2 Extreme QX9770 3.2GHz can only get around 12,000 points, overclocked to 4.0 GHz only barely more than 15,000 points, less than one-third of Nehalem 3.2GHz.
