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Intel’s Digital Drag Race Showcases New i7 Chip

Posted December 3rd, 2008 by Jeremy Schoemaker

Ya… I am a Apple guy but I have always been a HUGE fan of Intel. Through the years I have always been a HUGE advocate of Intel and its all we use to power our servers.

And now Intel powers my mac!

Don’t thing I am a big Intel fan?

Check out this thing I had framed in my basement. Its every chip Intel made from the first all the way to the Pentium Pro. I bought most of them off of eBay throughout the years then had a local crafts place put them all nice and in a frame:

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Anyway Intel launched the new i7 chip last week and it looks totally badass. Its a Quad Core PLUS hyper threading.

Intel started a new site called Digital Dragrace where they are having graphics and multimedia experts create some pretty badass animations and then judge them. The site is pretty sweet these guys create some AMAZING stuff in a short amount of time.

Digital Drag Race

Anyway I have seen them on facebook and other places around the web. Pretty cool.

Also it gives me a chance to show off my nerd art =P

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48 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    SW @Quality Squidoo Lens Service

    Wow this one is nice and rare collection. Showing your other aspect as well Jeremy.

  2. Good Comment?
    Typhoon

    That’s Cool n Awesome..

  3. Good Comment?
    Taris J

    I like the history of the intel chip you put together there!! really cool to see how it progressed!! :)

  4. Good Comment?
    Frostfire Gifts

    wow, amazing, i wonder what the future holds for Intel!

  5. Good Comment?
    Solid Blogger

    Yup, a bit nerdy yet cool. Worth giving a try.

  6. Good Comment?
    Tatil Yerleri

    I love your intel chips in the frame, I did immediately think “nerd” when I saw the photo. Its an awesome idea though.

  7. Good Comment?
    cat

    Very nice collection, I have about 4 old videcards at home

  8. Good Comment?
    Ben Pei

    Ahh.. Just can’t keep up with all these technologies..

  9. Good Comment?
    Massive Traffic

    Really cool! I find intel good for doing all the stuff i do online even though I don’t need speed t play games or something like that :)

  10. Good Comment?
    Start Your Own Website

    Its very cool! I think it is awesome to see how far things have developed and come over the years!

  11. Good Comment?
    Mitch Giangobbe

    That is so cool! I’ll always have fond memories of the 8086.

  12. Good Comment?
    Karl Hadwen

    I like AMD for gaming, I like Intel alot too, I’m 50/50 on both tbh

    • Good Comment?
      kadin

      :P i am sure :) you are GAME BOY :P :P but i agree with you..

  13. Good Comment?
    Sensei

    well, I got a intel in my macbook to and I think it’S really badass too. I just had a look at digital dragrace and it looks pretty cool :D

    got a intel in my computer and it really kicks ass using it for gaming :D

  14. Good Comment?
    gendut

    amazing chips…creating especially for game maniac worldwide…… I think’s work fast and the cost very expensive

  15. Good Comment?
    Play Games Win Prizes

    I tried to win one of these bad ass chips on that Com.puter.tv event, but boy did that turn out horrible.

  16. Good Comment?
    BusinessX

    Not being a hardware nerd, I often wondered how effective high powered CPU’s can be. Is the CPU limited by the motherboard bus speed and by amount of RAM? Kind of like the weakest link in a chain.

    Regardless, the graphics guys are amazing. Now, they I can see needing the most souped machines available.

  17. Good Comment?
    Matt Helphrey

    Very cool. It’s amazing how far we’ve come in such a short time. Just think where we’ll be in 20 more years.

    • Good Comment?
      Dick

      People go to the Moon twenty years later. And on Mars.

  18. Good Comment?
    meethere

    that is amazing… intel keep going for faster and faster processors..
    there is no limit for them.

  19. Good Comment?
    Eric

    I have a circa 1982 video card hanging on my wall above my computer desk. It’s about 3 times the length of a large video card these days, and it’s covered in small removable micro chips. It’s pretty neat.

    I also have an uncovered HDD and floppy drive (with a disk mounted inside).

  20. Good Comment?
    Digital SLR Camera

    Haha Everyone else has already said, but wow Nerd…

    And my girl calls me a nerd for being on my Mac and 360 all day.

    If she only knew…

    No offense obviously, nerds get their shit done.

  21. Good Comment?
    Michael Brito

    Thanks for the love Jeremy. See you in Orlando.

  22. Good Comment?
    dailycad

    I really like your intel chips in the frame.. Very nice idea..

  23. Good Comment?
    Seo Creations

    That is a little bit nerdy but I love your intel chips in the frame,

  24. Good Comment?
    Missy Ward

    I think the Digital Drag Race is really cool and I wrote about it on my blog as well. Do you have a favorite competitor yet?

  25. Good Comment?
    ways to make money online

    Wonder what the tag on those will be…

  26. Good Comment?
    weight loss tea

    im guessing you dont use AMD at all?

    • Good Comment?
      kadin

      i use it . and we use it, they use it .. what do you talk about :)

  27. Good Comment?
    Local Price

    That is pretty cool. I wish I had the free time to mess around with stuff like that. I used to. Then I got one job, then side gig, then a few sites of my own, and then a kid. You get the point. Do this sort of thing while you are young.

    • Good Comment?
      Michael Henry

      Or fun. Getting old doesn’t mean getting boring.

      • Good Comment?
        Local Price

        Having a kid or older isn’t boring. It just means your priorities change from fiddling with new toys to things that mean more to you.

  28. Good Comment?
    MMA Web Design

    I wasn’t aware Commodore was still making computers. I’m going to buy the Commodore with the i7 just for old time sakes.

  29. Good Comment?
    browie

    Very impressive at what those guys can do in such a short amount of time. Very nerdy.

    • Good Comment?
      Dick

      Now the speed of technology development set money.

      • Good Comment?
        kadin

        everythin is money , of course :)

  30. Good Comment?
    Tom - StandOutBlogger.com

    Wow! That is a little bit nerdy! But still very cool.

  31. Good Comment?
    Anthony Shapley

    I love your intel chips in the frame, I did immediately think “nerd” when I saw the photo. Its an awesome idea though.

  32. Good Comment?
    Michael Henry

    Thats cool. I have a collection of old harddrives with the front covers removed. The old RLL drives look really empressive.

    I’m going to have to copy you on this.

    • Good Comment?
      Dick

      Yes. I think I will be interesting to see the progress in the industry. -)

  33. Good Comment?
    Lisa Braziel from Ignite

    Thanks for covering this! I work for an agency that collaborated with Intel on it. Just wanted to let everyone know that the nerdiness continues on the blog section of the site. This month, the blog will showcase “fan battles”, where user generated videos will be pitted against each other. If you are interested in creating a video, the assets are on this section as well, and videos just need to be tagged DDRi7 on You Tube to be pulled into the page. So far there are already 10 user generated videos, so its a good way to get coverage if you are a designer or an animator.

  34. Good Comment?
    John Kane

    Thought that was something I had seen before in stores or maybe in a museum…good nerd art, gives me an idea for my own nerd art.

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