Nehalem Cpu's

Tri Channel 3 or 6 sticks of DDR3,(HUM). At the begining talk about $$$$. Prices will come down in time just like DDR2. Heard AMD was moving to a Quad channel with the M34 socket. Money money money - M o n e y.

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ddr3 prices wont plummet until nehalems have been out a few months and the population of people that are desperate for the chip will spend premium prices for the CPU, mobo, and memory. when demand for ddr3 drops, so will price...
 
DDR3 prices are already fairly reasonable, compared to what they used to be anyways ($700+ for 4GB :eek:)

I don't see how the multiplier could be 22x, unless they are using a really slow FSB, or unless the architecture is totally different. Since right now with 1066/1333MHz bus speeds, the multipliers have been around 5-10x.
 
i just know this is going to end with me buying the extreme edition nehalem if i dont get a new computer soon :(
 
I wouldn't get the extreme version, they don't overclock that much higher anyways. I wonder if I'll have part of my gift certificate left by then, haha!
 
[-0MEGA-];1033822 said:
I wouldn't get the extreme version, they don't overclock that much higher anyways. I wonder if I'll have part of my gift certificate left by then, haha!
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I dont want you stressing out over that Omega..Ill help you spend it :D
 
I don't see how the multiplier could be 22x, unless they are using a really slow FSB, or unless the architecture is totally different.
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It is. They're replacing FSB with QuickPath interconnect (I think that's what it was called) to compete with AMD's HT.
 
colt1911 said:
Possible early release for some Nehalem cpu's leaked out . Found interesting info here (http://www.nehalemnews.com/ ) .
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To be honest, i would Rather go with either the Enthusiast, or the mainstream one.

The Performance one seems too expensive (+$250 from mainstream), and and too close in specs to the mainstream, (and there is nothing a little OC cant fix...). The only major difference is the 1x quickpath, and the pin count (LGA 1366 vs LGA 1160)

Plus, it has a lower multiplier (mostly RAM speeds will be boosted...)

So neXt year, i guess im getting my Nehalem.... :P

But I hear they are releasing an LGA1366 and an LGA 1160. I think the mainstream will have that... Any performance difference? I think it would be better to have the 1366, for future expandability, but who knows...
 
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I think I'll definitely go with LGA1366 and hope it serves us as well as LGA775 has done. I'll either get the performance series or mainstream , it's my thinking that the Extreme is not worth the price for me.There are still some questions out there that concern me about being able to OC the lower end Nehalem's . I've read several threads talking about Intel may limit the OC'ing to only the Extreme. As far as I know though it's only a rumor.
 
I cant wait for nehalem to come out.. not that ill be able to get a new motherboard and cpu to take advantage of it since i just bought this computer recently, but it should be pretty sweet. Ill be hoping i can afford to upgrade to nehalem in the futureXD.
 
Just found this today.

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As expected, stories are starting to surface from Computex that Nehalem will, of course support overclocking; and not just Bloomfield but Lynnfield as well. Not surprisingly, Fudzilla's rumor mongering was wrong again.
 
colt1911 said:
There are still some questions out there that concern me about being able to OC the lower end Nehalem's . I've read several threads talking about Intel may limit the OC'ing to only the Extreme. As far as I know though it's only a rumor.
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You'll be able to overclock. I'm curious as how that will work with the QuickPath technology, though. Intel would be crazy to shut out the entire enthusiast market by disabling the OC feature on their low to mid-range procs.
 
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I don't see how the multiplier could be 22x, unless they are using a really slow FSB, or unless the architecture is totally different. Since right now with 1066/1333MHz bus speeds, the multipliers have been around 5-10x.
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yup, it's a TOTALLY different architecture. uses x58 mobo, different CPU socket, integrated memory controller (so no more NB), tri-channel memory, and no more fsb
 
The hardest thing with Nehalem is waiting for Intel to actually release these chips.

I'm trying really hard to hold off on my next rebuild until the "mainstream" chips begin to ship. If the rumors or locked multipliers truly were false, I'll have a lot of fun playing with one of these!

Pair one of these up with 8 GB of DDR3, four VelociRaptors in RAID0 and another 9800GX2 and I'll be happy for a while.
 
9 gigs of ddr3 would be smarter, the tri channel means they'll preform better in sets of 3 gigabytes, the boards supposedly support 12gb a piece or something like that
 
Unfortunately the kits that I've seen have all been even numbered. I have yet to see a 3GB matched set, although they probably are coming. If my current system can fly with 4GB, doubling that to 8 GB and adding a Nehalem should be pretty darn fast.
 
but windows desktop editions wont use more than 8gb even on x64 , theoretically they can but ms dont let them.

only datacenter edition of the server products can

so if you put in 12gb youd be wasting loads of ram
 
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