Gigabyte, Intel, Kingston Lynnfield Core i5/i7 Demo

Gigabyte, Intel, Kingston Lynnfield Core i5/i7 Demo

We recently made a meeting in California for the Gigabyte, Intel, Kingston Lynnfield Core i5/i7 demo on Gigabyte boards with Kingston HyperX. We have to tell you we've seen Nirvana and it was good. Imagine a room full of some of the industries leading people and having hours on end to pick their brains. Sheer nerd Nirvana.

With all the brain picking and idea bouncing going on we still had time to see some boards, get a peek at i5/i7 demonstration, look at the Kingston HyperX lineup for i5/i7, and spent copious time attending our drool towels.

Lets start with a look at some of the power players in the field.

The event was sponsored by Gigabyte and Angela Lan did the opening statement she's one of the primary public relations contacts for Gigabyte.

Next up to bat was the Vice President of Gigabyte, Tony Liao.

We were really happy to meet with Dan Snyder from Intel and by a weird quirk of coincidence ended up riding from LAX to the meeting with the Intel guys. We can't release details but lets just say that was one interesting ride.

Then we heard a few words from the Intel benchmarking Guru Francois Piednoel. Honestly this guy cuts his finger and Super Pi benchmarks drip out. When we spoke with Francois about the finer technical points of LGA 1156 i5/i7 he knew every answer immediately and could expand the question into areas we hadn't even suspected. We offered a first born child to spend a day with him in his benchmarking lab but ended up with a benchmark load disk instead.

Then Angela introduced one of our favorite brands of ram representative Mark Tekunoff, Kingstons' benchmarking/overclocking Guru. Again we can't really give details but lets say that we saw ram running on the north side of 2GHz. Just how far North, let's say Eskimo's would have been cold.

When Mark actually got into his turn to impress us you could tell he really loves his job and frankly it shows. Did we mention that the man can throw down on some serious overclocking.

The we have a quasi celebrity in the nerd world, Fugger made the scene with his phase change cooling system and we got to see some serious i5/i7 overclocking.

Then here's the power group shot, left to right, Dan Snyder from Intel, Mark Tekunoff from Kingston, Francois Piednoel from Intel, Tony Liao VP of Gigabyte, and Angela Lan our Gigabyte parts angel.

Ready to see some serious GIgabyte P55 Lynnfield offerings?