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Core i5 BIOS and Device Manager pictured

Published on 1st June 2009 by Richard Swinburne

Intel Core i5 Vista device manager reads 8 virtual cores.

COMPUTEX 2009: Since Intel is being horrible to us on the day before Computex, diving on me like bodyguards to Paparazzi as I take a shot or two of its booth, we went to nose around elsewhere for some live demos of its next-generation "Core i5" processors.

We found no benchmarks installed on any of the PCs (sorry) but we did get two shots of an early production BIOS and Vista Device Manager picking up the eight threads from four 2.13GHz cores of the pre-production CPUs. Hopefully it's something to whet your appetite a little!

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Core i5 BIOS and Device Manager pictured Core i5 BIOS and Windows shot, shot

Core i5 BIOS and Device Manager pictured Core i5 BIOS and Windows shot, shot

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SMIFFYDUDE 1st June 2009, 12:23

Oh baby yeah, thats the stuff. Mmmmmmmmm you know what i like.

Paradigm Shifter 1st June 2009, 12:59

For some reason, I just can't get excited about Core i5.

perplekks45 1st June 2009, 14:05

i5 will be nice but not ground-breaking. Maybe that's why, Para?

Paradigm Shifter 1st June 2009, 14:16

Yeah, probably.

There is better stuff already available, with the prospect of something truly ground-breaking on the horizon (Larrabee)...

Bindibadgi 1st June 2009, 15:15

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Originally Posted by Paradigm Shifter
Yeah, probably.

There is better stuff already available, with the prospect of something truly ground-breaking on the horizon (Larrabee)...

Intel is not briefing anyone on it until AFTER Computex to avoid leaks.

It's a good thing I'll still be here until the 16th then... :D:D

Also i5 = boring. I agree, but with no new graphics cards, no new Atom, no new AMD CPUs on show - it's the only thing you lot havent seen before :(

perplekks45 1st June 2009, 17:21

Booth girls?

B1GBUD 1st June 2009, 17:28

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Originally Posted by perplekks45
Booth girls?

Mmmmm booth girls

**drools**

sear 1st June 2009, 18:15

My regular old dual-core looks so silly now. Still can't get too excited about the Core i5 as it basically fits into the weird gap between Core 2 and Core i7. I mean, Core i7 is great, but it's not such a huge leap over Core 2 that there is an acceptable mainstream space for it. It's more or less a way of Intel moving everything over to the new technology for cheaper manufacturing, as well as a way to launch a new brand and keep the buzz going in the press, thus hopefully helping sales. The actual processor itself, however, does not seem like a significant or even warranted upgrade over the Core 2s.

perplekks45 1st June 2009, 18:50

I think if Intel had released i5 before i7 while releasing the new Xeon 55xx series at the same time as i5 we would see a lot more people being all "OMG!!!!11 i5 is DA BEST CPU EVAAAR!!!!111one".
But Intel apparently decided to wait for... yea, for what did they wait? For all those enthusiasts to jump aboard the i7 cruiser? Well, we'll never know...

Bindibadgi 2nd June 2009, 08:06

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