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Core i7 940 - mid range part

The new Intel Core i7 940 processor is the middle priced processor of the three Nehalem based processors that are being launched this month.

At $562 per processor in OEM quantities, it is priced at almost twice the price of the i920, and runs at 266MHz higher speed for each core than the i920.

The Core i7 940 features:

• New Intel Core Microarchitecture (Nehalem)
• 45nm high-K process
• Socket 1366
• 2.93GHz "stock" clock speed
• 4.8GT/sec QPI interface (9.6GB/sec in each direction)
• 32KB of L1 code cache
• 32KB of L1 data cache
• 256KB of L2 unified code/data cache
• 8MB of L3 shared unified cache
• support for three channels of DDR3-1066 memory
• 130W TDP

Here is an image of the Core i7 965 Intel provided us with - we downclocked the processor to 740 speeds per Intel's directions:

Here is an i720 with its stock heatsink, presumably the 940 will ship with the same heatsink:

The Core i7 940 should retail for around $580 and it represents the "mainstream" segment of the current i7 line. It will be very interesting to see how it performs compared to the i7 920, 965 and the current champion, the QX9770.

The i7 965 we received ran at a default 1.15V core voltage, and had a 130W TDP programmed into the processor.