Intel® Core i7 Processor

Intel® Core i7 processor is the first member of Intel's next generation microarchitecture - Nehalem and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput. The Core i7 processor speeds video editing, immersive games and other popular Internet and computer activities by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption. With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that applies processing power dynamically when needed most, the new Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They're the best desktop processors on the planet! Multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. Whether you're casually checking e-mail and surfing the Web or multitasking compute-intensive applications such as HD video encoding, you want a processor that enables maximum PC performance. With the Intel Core i7 processor, you'll get just that.

Intel® Core i7 processors deliver a new level of performance to the end user resulting in better computing experience in multiple areas.

• Highly threaded applications such as video editing and encoding will see as much as 79% improvement; 3D rendering will see as much as 46%
• Games will see about 10% improvements, some more some less depending on the level of threading done in the game title
• Multitasking and overall responsiveness will be much better with a Corei7 processor.

Multitasking performance may increase as much as 25% depending on the combination of simultaneous workloads.

1. Quad-Core Processing - Provides four independent execution cores in one processor package. Four dedicated processing cores help operating systems and applications deliver additional performance, so end users can experience better multitasking and multithreaded performance across many types of applications and workloads.
2. Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology - Delivers two processing threads per physical core for a total of eight threads for massive computational throughput. Highly threaded applications can get more work done in parallel, completing tasks sooner. This amazing processor can handle multiple applications working simultaneously, allowing you to do more with less wait time.
3. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology - Dynamically increases the processor's frequency as needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom when operating below specified limits. Get more performance automatically, when you need it the most.
4. 8 MB Intel Smart Cache - This large last-level cache enables dynamic and efficient allocation of shared cache to all four cores to match the needs of various applications for ultra-efficient data storage and manipulation.
5. Intel® QuickPath Interconnect - Intel's latest system interconnect design increases bandwidth and lowers latency, while achieving data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/s.
6. Integrated Memory Controller - An integrated memory controller with three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz offers memory performance up to 25.6 GB/s. Combined with the processor's efficient perfecting algorithms, this memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.
7. Intel® HD Boost - Includes the full SSE4 instruction set, significantly improving a broad range of multimedia and compute intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4-optimized applications.
8. Digital Thermal Sensor (DTS) - Provides for more efficient processor and platform thermal control improving system acoustics. The DTS continuously measures the temperature at each processing core. The ability to continuously measure and detect variations in processor temperature enables system fans to spin only as fast as needed to cool the system. The combination of these technologies can result in significantly lower noise emissions from the PC.
9. Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution - Improves execution speed and efficiency, delivering more instructions per clock cycle. Each core can complete up to four full instructions simultaneously.
10. Intel® Smart Memory Access - Improves system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth from the memory subsystem and reducing the effective latency of memory accesses.