According to news and rumor site Fudzilla, Intel’s upcoming 6-core Gulftown chips won’t be the only upgrade options for socket 1366 owners. They say Intel plans to release a Core i7 930 part in the first quarter of 2010, which will supplant the ever-popular Core i7 920.
Like the 920, the 930 is a Nehalem-based 45nm quad-core part, except that it will come clocked at 2.88Ghz instead of 2.66Ghz. It also boasts a QPI speed of 4.8GT/s and 8MB of cache. In addition, Fudzilla says the 930’s Turbo engine can automatically overclock the part to 3.06GHz.
No word yet on price, but we suspect it will probably sell for about the same as the 920, which checks in at $284 in 1,000-tray quantities.
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