Intel’s Digital Drag Race Showcases New i7 Chip

by Jeremy Schoemaker on December 3, 2008 · 48 comments

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:

(Click to enlarge)

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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1 John Kane December 3, 2008 at 6:55 am

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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2 Lisa Braziel from Ignite December 3, 2008 at 6:58 am

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.

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3 Michael Henry December 3, 2008 at 7:04 am

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.

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4 Dick December 4, 2008 at 8:37 am

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

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5 Anthony Shapley December 3, 2008 at 7:15 am

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

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6 Tom - StandOutBlogger.com December 3, 2008 at 7:22 am

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

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7 browie December 3, 2008 at 7:26 am

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

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8 Dick December 4, 2008 at 8:43 am

Now the speed of technology development set money.

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9 kadin December 4, 2008 at 6:24 pm

everythin is money , of course :)

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10 MMA Web Design December 3, 2008 at 7:30 am

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

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11 Local Price December 3, 2008 at 7:33 am

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.

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12 Michael Henry December 3, 2008 at 9:50 am

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

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13 Local Price December 3, 2008 at 1:58 pm

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.

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14 weight loss tea December 3, 2008 at 7:49 am

im guessing you dont use AMD at all?

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15 kadin December 4, 2008 at 6:24 pm

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

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16 ways to make money online December 3, 2008 at 9:00 am

Wonder what the tag on those will be…

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17 Missy Ward December 3, 2008 at 9:13 am

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?

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18 Seo Creations December 3, 2008 at 9:18 am

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

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19 dailycad December 3, 2008 at 11:02 am

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

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20 Michael Brito December 3, 2008 at 11:21 am

Thanks for the love Jeremy. See you in Orlando.

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21 Digital SLR Camera December 3, 2008 at 11:27 am

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.

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22 Eric December 3, 2008 at 4:42 pm

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).

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23 meethere December 3, 2008 at 7:50 pm

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

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24 Matt Helphrey December 3, 2008 at 8:26 pm

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.

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25 Dick December 4, 2008 at 8:44 am

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

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26 BusinessX December 3, 2008 at 9:09 pm

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.

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27 Play Games Win Prizes December 4, 2008 at 2:39 am

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

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28 gendut December 4, 2008 at 3:12 am

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

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29 Sensei December 4, 2008 at 5:45 am

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

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30 Karl Hadwen December 4, 2008 at 8:41 am

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

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31 kadin December 4, 2008 at 6:23 pm

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

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32 Mitch Giangobbe December 4, 2008 at 4:48 pm

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

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33 Seo Creations December 6, 2008 at 8:02 pm

Can you share with us?

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34 Start Your Own Website December 5, 2008 at 4:20 pm

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

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35 Massive Traffic December 6, 2008 at 5:11 am

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 :)

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36 Ben Pei December 6, 2008 at 7:40 pm

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

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37 cat December 7, 2008 at 5:07 am

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

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38 Tatil Yerleri December 7, 2008 at 8:57 am

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

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39 Solid Blogger December 10, 2008 at 9:27 am

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

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40 Frostfire Gifts December 11, 2008 at 3:06 am

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

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41 Taris J December 11, 2008 at 10:19 am

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

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42 Typhoon December 15, 2008 at 3:46 am

That’s Cool n Awesome..

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43 SW @Quality Squidoo Lens Service June 18, 2009 at 3:29 am

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

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