Can we get all of the nehalem comments into one thread? Watching 5 conversations is getting annoying. So this is the unofficial nehalem commenting thread. (and remember, you can quote from other threads)
personally, I think the price concerns are stupid. DDR3 is NOT as expensive as people are saying. Boards...we'll see. The chips will fit into the current price structure, $300, $500, $1k.
performance, we know is damn good.
overclocking...we'll see.
Best resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture) (GREAT chart)
http://www.nehalemnews.com/
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Its official- nvidia will support SLI on X58.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3395
Intel > nVidia, and they finally realized it. (Actually they realized that 4870 x2 is powerful enough to be a more than viable option for every person buying bloomfields for the next 6 months, and without SLI they would do so.
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personally, I think the price concerns are stupid. DDR3 is NOT as expensive as people are saying. Boards...we'll see. The chips will fit into the current price structure, $300, $500, $1k.
performance, we know is damn good.
overclocking...we'll see.
Best resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture) (GREAT chart)
http://www.nehalemnews.com/
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Its official- nvidia will support SLI on X58.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3395
Intel > nVidia, and they finally realized it. (Actually they realized that 4870 x2 is powerful enough to be a more than viable option for every person buying bloomfields for the next 6 months, and without SLI they would do so.
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