October 18
The new
real Bloomfield, the original Nehalem will go live on October 18th. The new
CPU is branded as Core i7 960 and it works at 3.2GHz and naturally supports Turbo overclocking that will get it even faster.
The new CPU
will sit on top of Core i7 950 clocked at 3.06GHz but both CPUs have the same
specification including 8MB Cache, LGA1366 support and four cores and eight
threads.
The Core i7
960 at launch will sell for $562 and it should be available in stores on
October 18th. The top Bloomfield remains Core i7 975 at 3.33GHz and will
continue to sell for $999 until Gulftown comes in Q2 2010.