Nehalem....it's a-comin-up

[Ste]

the pricetag for everything always sucks when it comes out. you already forget the q6600 used to be 600$?

And is now like 255 ish..

 

[Akubane]

whats that have to do with launch price.

I'm sure you'll have your share of denial when you see the price tag on these chips.

the pricetag for everything always sucks when it comes out. you already forget the q6600 used to be 600$?

 

[gurusan]

penryn/yorkie pricing seems to be quite reasonable

 

[Ste]

Im just pointing out what a deal it is!!
I didn't say it had anything to do with launch time...

 

[dario03]

I thought there was going to be a octo-core nehalem chip... I can't wait to get one of these. To bad there will be something even better coming out by the time I could afford it.

 

[Akubane]

my bad

 

[Poizen22]

why do they have to change socket, and ram right when i built my machine. this always seems to happen to me, i bought socket 939 abotu a year later obsolete., ohwell hiopefully i can go another 2 years with atleast a gpu upgrade.

 

[Blitersety]

btw it's not "octo-core" in any way...it's just hyperthreaded like the old P4 chips

Yes I know it isn't octo core, I said "'effectively' octo core". Meaning it will be like having 8 cores...

 

[veedubfreak]

why do they have to change socket, and ram right when i built my machine. this always seems to happen to me, i bought socket 939 abotu a year later obsolete., ohwell hiopefully i can go another 2 years with atleast a gpu upgrade.

Memory controller on the cpu. Thats why. But dont fear, at the rate AMD is putting out stuff, it'll be late '09 before Intel bothers releasing affordable nehalem stuff.

 

[gurusan]

Yes I know it isn't octo core, I said "'effectively' octo core". Meaning it will be like having 8 cores...

but it's not....hyperthreading is much different. Part of a core working on a single process thread is not the same as having a dedicated core to a thread

It may sound like I'm just trying to pin you on a technicality but there is, in fact, quite a big difference between the 2.