i5 & i7

mcw1965

please can someone tell the the difference between the i5 & i7 processor

seedyh

Does this help?

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/48391.aspx

BillScarab

In case you not aware the Core i3 is now available as well.

John_Gray

Buy a copy of this month's PC Pro magazine. There's a good cost vs. power graph in there... And on their website there are some reviews of processors.

JasX

BillScarab wrote: »

In case you not aware the Core i3 is now available as well.

...and Core i9 pencilled in for the future

esuhl

I think there's a website where you can search for information like that:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=difference+core+i5+i7

Ash888

the orginal i7 are very powerful but consume more watts than the newer cpu's.

the new i7, i5 and now i3 are still powerful (in descending order) but they use less energy so can help with power saving if thats what you look for.

turbobob

Its a confusing line up and is changing. The Core i7 9 series (Bloomfield) uses the LGA1366 socket. These are quad core processors with hyper threading and support triple channel DDR3 memory. These are currently the highest end desktop processors from Intel.

The Core i7 8 series and the Core i5 7 series (both "Lynnfield" processors) are on the LGA1156 socket. These use different motherboards and support chipset compared to the i7 9 series. These support dual channel DDR3 memory. The Core i5 7 series is essentially the same as a Core i7 8 series but has some features disabled (e.g. hypethreading). These are quad core processors.

Then you have the newly released Core i5's and i3's. These are dual core processors that have a graphics processor built in, and the new mainstream intel CPU's. This table shows the line up of these parts - http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTI2MjU2NDk2NlN3U1NZT2FvRGVfMV81X2wuanBn

piggeh

Only difference I can see is no. of threads

http://img.hexus.net/v2/news/intel/impress-intel-roadmap-leak-big.jpg

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=21377