Sometimes Christmas is in mid October: That’s how the PCGH editors felt when the postman delivered an inconspicuous packet from Intel. The contents:

- Two different Core i7 CPUs
- Two CPU coolers (the new Boxed cooler and the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme)
- An X58 motherboard from Intel
- 3x DDR3 1066 1 GiByte DIMMs from Qimonda

In the Intel internal Technology Blog Bill Calder wrote that Core i7 processors will be officially introduced in November. Up to now we cannot say when we will be allowed to publish reviews of the Core i7. Nevertheless some websites already offer their test results.

On the next pages you can see all the important hardware components and we explain the most interesting features. You can also just take a look at the pictures in our gallery.