http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13232

Im officially impressed and if this chip is anything close to what they say it is i must have one.

Yeah, supposedly Nehalem CPUs will be launched at stock speeds up to 4.0GHz.

I'm looking to upgrade to Penryn next year, but depending on exactly when in "H2 2008" Nehalem will be released, I just might wait for that instead.

We'll see...

I'm going to just nab a q6600 probably and wait for nehalem...who knows when it will come out though. I might or might not. Did they happen to show off the performance at the IDF?...Really curious on what type of performance that sucker brings.

Here is Anandtech's coverage:
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/i [...] i=3101&p=1
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/i [...] spx?i=3102
Penryn Nov 12, Nehalem 2h 08, this coming year is going to be something.

I have to say, Intel is a company on a mission from God....

Penryn apparently right on track.
Functional demos of Nehalem systems
Functional 32 nano SRAM

Intel is on a scary, dare I say terrifying, run.

If AMD can pull a few rabbits out the hat, we could all be in for one heck of a ride.

Pity all that extra power wont really translate to more performance in games.

For (pretty much) the 1st time in PC history we have MORE than enuf cpu power for games.

Now if ATI and NV can pull something similar out of the bag...

Yeh i think your right mrmez, we have quad core cpus that most users will never utilise, my q6600 is running server2003 64bit with exchange server, WSUS server, azureous bittorrent constantly and im still using it as a general email web viewing machine and it barely touches 20% utilisation on the CPU CRAZY

Actually, the problem isn't even really graphics anymore.

The problem is actually related to coding and storing all the data nessesary for all those nice hi-res graphics. It takes a lot of time (man-hours) to devise and code all those nice polygons, textures, and lighting effects. And debugging. And testing.

Then, there's the problem of space. There's the problem of the finite space involved in transfering the product (whether it's CD/DVD/Downloadable Content). How much are you willing to spend to get the prouct to the customer?

Finally, there's the problem of how much you can retail the product for. You could have the greatest game ever created on 2 DVD's, but if you have to retail it for $100 a copy to offset your costs you probably won't be able to sell enough copies to get your initial investment back.

The simple fact is, the days of being able to produce and market high-quality game titles out of your bedroom/garage are largely over. It now takes 3-5 years, with dozens of experienced artists and programmers with million-dollar equipment and developer kits, to produce even a fair/average game. It varies from title to title, but it now cost an average of 10-15 million to produe and distibute a class A title. So, it's more a problem of economics, not technology..

i just cancled my qx6850 project for myself - forget it - triple the bandwidth i stick with a q6600 for now!

I know Valve is big on the multicores. I do believe the updates to the source engine for Ep2 will handle upto quadcore. So not everyone is sitting back and not paying attention to trends.

I hope the early revisions are relatively bug-free and OC like da shiz.

from fudzilla it appears that nehalem will have a dedicated core to graphics basically Intels version of AMD's fusion. Id believe it but not from fudzilla.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 0&Itemid=1
" Larrabee likely to be a high end graphics"
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 4&Itemid=1
and also apparently K10rev 2 thatll clock to past 3ghz has started mass production.

Hardware has so outstripped OS and application capabilities, it seems rather pointless. Hmmmm...if we could just put...say.....16GB of RAM on the die.....what's the point?....XP addresses 3GB.
So now because we have 8 cores we can run 8 task side by side.....
Let me see...now...how many times do I run even 4 tasks?

On the other hand more is better ...right? I wonder how much this one will cost us?

Probably alot, but the lower end ones won't (hopefully). 5 years ago you would have said the same about dual cores, but now they are cheap as hell and are the current standard.

Looks like Intel liked AMD's fusion idea - they liked it so much that they will get to market first with it!!!!

If only AMD could keep thei mouth shut!!!

Ha ha ha