Desktop powered with Intel's Nehalem

We all want one..... now for the prices to come in, blow us apart for a few months, then hopefully drop enough so most of us can afford it.
I reckon this is going to be quite a hit sooner rather than later to be honest. People love to buy.... and upgrade......
 
*sigh* on sybaritic the 860 is going for R3181 (the 870 is going for double that). It is less than what I spend on my Q9450 almost a year ago. oh well... have to upgrade :P
I have to get a new motherboard anyway, but current nehalem owners are probably not happy, couldnt Intel keep the socket?!? or whatever the same?
 
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The new Lynnfield i5 & i7 processors use a different board - the new LGA 1156 socket
Top i7 processors already released use a FCLGA 1366 cocket board
So be careful - don't buy i5 or i7 Lynnfield cpu and board thinking you can just replace processor in a few months with a top of the range i7 CPU cos it won't fit.

Interesting article explains sockets:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-i5-750-core-i7-860-870-processor-review-test/5
e.g. LGA 1156 will not have support for triple channel memory
 
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sybaritic has the core i5 750 for zar 2100. thats the one im going for. orange computers has a msi p55-gd653 for zar 1999, theres my new system.
 
I must say I have the luxury of working with the Dell M610 blades that comes with two Nahelm quad core and 32 gig's of Ram pretty sweet.
 
After budgeting for the i7, i am now wondering whether I should be going to the i5 ???
 
So its got an integrated memory controller ? We've having that since 2005 on AMD :p

intel is so backwards and lame they really have to copy every little innovation AMD makes.
 
Rouxenator said:
So its got an integrated memory controller ? We've having that since 2005 on AMD :p

intel is so backwards and lame they really have to copy every little innovation AMD makes.
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Broken record of note. Wow seriously there are other tunes to play dude :D.
 
Rouxenator said:
As long as people buy intel I'll be reminding them that they are buying old AMD technology.
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then why is amd's flagship cpu not beating intel's flagship cpu, better implementation ?

....Alpha 21364 (1998) had a IMC before amd64 (2003?) did.
The integration of the memory controller onto the die of the microprocessor is not a new concept. Some microprocessors in the 1990s such as the DEC Alpha 21066 and HP PA-7300LC had integrated memory controllers, but to reduce the cost of systems by removing the requirement for an external memory controller instead of increasing performance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_controller
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ow **** its not an amd invention...
 
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Rouxenator said:
As long as people buy intel I'll be reminding them that they are buying old AMD technology.
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So why then is intel thumping amd with technology they had in 2005, FFS they have had a 3 year head start yet still get thumped by intel.

WTF is going on with a company that does worse with technology it has had for 3 years longer?

Damn to me that makes amd look bad, really bad actually.
 
killadoob said:
So why then is intel thumping amd with technology they had in 2005, FFS they have had a 3 year head start yet still get thumped by intel.

WTF is going on with a company that does worse with technology it has had for 3 years longer?

Damn to me that makes amd look bad, really bad actually.
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like what 3dfx had before nv bought them in part out after they went down ?
 
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