Intel's 'Nehalem' To Launch Sooner
Originally scheduled to launch in November or December this year, Intel’s Nehalem-based Bloomfield processors will now launch in September along with X58 chipsets, sources at motherboard makers revealed. However, the sources pointed out that CPUs and motherboards will not officially appear in the channel until early October.
We took an early look at Nehalem in a quad-core configuration running at 2.93 GHz. In our very early tests, our Nehalem part performed quite impressively. It beat out the competition by fairly significant margins, proving that Intel’s architectural changes is definitely on the positive side. Our part was able to outperform equally configured systems with current processors from both AMD’s camp and Intel’s own by margins between 20 to 30 percent.
Keep in mind that Nehalem no longer uses a traditional front-side bus (FSB), and instead uses an external multiplier to control the link between CPU core, memory controller, and north-bridge.
According to several of our sources, Intel is well on its way with silicon yield, and early samples confirm this. With our own sample in house, we were able to overclock our samples by nearly 1 GHz. What are the performance figures for a quad-core Nehalem system running at nearly 4 GHz? We’ll come back with more as soon as we develop a viable suite of benchmarks to show some real-world gaming and productivity performance.
Stay tuned!
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Sweet!
Me wanna get one. Intel has really stepped it up lately.
Looks good for anyone looking to build a new system.
I might finally retire my AMD 2400+ system and build one of these with a 4870X2
Looks like Intel a starting to feel the AMD threat!!!
Why release it in September when its not going to actually be available until October? Is that even technically considered a release?
probably samples will be released during september for reviews to hype the nehalem launch. xizel1 quit spamming.
@xizel1,
Yes, I'm sure Intel is very afraid of AMD. They know that AMD is just pretending to suck badly so that they can pounce on Intel once their guard is down.
How will the triple channel DDR3 memory thing be handled? Will we start seeing 3 packs of DDR3 1G and 2G (3G and 6G total)? It wouldn't make much sense to only get 3x .5G sticks.
I've got to be honest I feel both Intel and AMD, I have had a 3.8ghz Air cooled 6300 for over two years. Is it even worth my time to hope that this new chip stock 2.93 beats mine in gaming, etc? I am bored with my old stuff I want something exciting and new is this it?
I'm looking forward to this
As soon as this is released, I'll be building a system, probably with a 4870x2.
The CPU and mobos will be released in September, but they won't be "IN CHANNEL" until early October. That just means it's going to be some weeks after release before it hits all the stores in quantity. If you're near one of the distributors, you probably will be able to get one in September.
It's sooner than I was expecting, which is good enough for me.
WOOHOO!, I'm ready, let me at it!!!
The CPU and mobos will be released in September, but they won't be "IN CHANNEL" until early October. That just means it's going to be some weeks after release before it hits all the stores in quantity. If you're near one of the distributors, you probably will be able to get one in September.
Pretty much I'm thinking what happened with the Wolfdales.Supply/Demand is out of ratio.Anyways,I want that sexy beast.
I hope the Nehalem release lowers DDR3 prices. I want to move to Vista, but that is not happening until I have more than 2 GB of RAM.
ddr3 prices will come down quickly...
prices for ddr3 one year ago were appalling, and they're rather decent now
they should be even better by january
Its BUY Situation for rest of '8 & probably lot longer. as dunnington just NOT priced for builder. AMD has Bulldozer somewhere, if theres AMD then. So this is Power item at reasonable price. Silly NOT to Buy, as little else will be available for?Years?.
HYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.
Signed
time to sell some of the kids toys to get me some new toys... Nehalem looks promissing, 20-30% is a large gain. I was expecting something more like 8-11% with the initial processor release.
byebye fsb.....helloooooo 1 ghz overclocking
Puttin sumthin DEELISHUS under the xmas tree this time around...
yO bABY yO bABY yO!!!
Ohhhhh Shinny, I wonder if they will accecpt a left testical as payment? lol
"accecpt" wow i cam cut >.
I wouldnt call a QX6800 a current processor and if you would have tested say against the Q9650 at 3GHz it would be at best a small increase. The only real improvement will be the 8 core Nehalem versions.
how do you know, why don't you can it and wait ?
Wonder what the price tag will be?
I want one so bad
I wouldnt call a QX6800 a current processor and if you would have tested say against the Q9650 at 3GHz it would be at best a small increase. The only real improvement will be the 8 core Nehalem versions.
I would say that we don't have any real performance numbers until the full test comes out.
Oh, and no, the 6800 isn't the most modern CPU. On the other hand, with both clocked at 2.93 GHz, the Nehalem was ~30% faster. 45nm (I.E. QX9650) does not run even remotely close to 30% faster per clock than 65nm. So, most of the gain has to be architectural.
these chips should give AMD another nosebleed!! Nice!!
Just in time for GTA IV on PC