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Core i7 Specs...

Prices seem better than that which i was expecting. Shame about the additional cost of the hardware to go with it all though.
 
gurusan said:
yeah i think for gamers best bang/buck will be wolfdales for some time to come.
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This is why I'm confused as to what to do come dec/jan time. Shall I get bang/buck and have plenty of cash left over or should I go full hog so I'm not upgrading come 6 months. Will be all watercooled too so that would obviously have to be changed if I upgrade.

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Well personally I like upgrading often and selling the old stuff back on the MM or the bay.

in fact I've got a wolfie for sale there right now
 
I bought my "Conroe" C2D back when they first came out, around August '06 and will see me through to the release of the Core i7.

If the initial benchmarks that have floated around hold true for the final release, it will be a case of "when", rather than "if" I decide to buy one ;)
 
you need to run memory CPU voltage synchronously which might be an overclocker's worst nightmare. At this current stage you cannot go over 1.65V and some memories such as DDR3 1600 or DDR3 2000 might need a bit more than that. With more than 1.65 you will kill any current Nehalem CPU.
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so we will need good ddr3 to even start oc this babys :confused:
 
you need to run memory CPU voltage synchronously which might be an overclocker's worst nightmare. At this current stage you cannot go over 1.65V and some memories such as DDR3 1600 or DDR3 2000 might need a bit more than that. With more than 1.65 you will kill any current Nehalem CPU.
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me no compendo
 
gurusan said:
Well personally I like upgrading often and selling the old stuff back on the MM or the bay.
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I do too but because I'm watercooling this time round I don't want to mess around too often, atleast a year before I would upgrade again.

kkbigal said:
I bought my "Conroe" C2D back when they first came out, around August '06 and will see me through to the release of the Core i7.

If the initial benchmarks that have floated around hold true for the final release, it will be a case of "when", rather than "if" I decide to buy one ;)
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Very true, the initial benchmarks I've seen do look very impressive and it will be hard 'not' to buy into it.
 
its fudzilla, so it probably isnt true.

I personally cant wait, just hope DDR3 timings are tighter and the price of it and the motherboards are lower.
 
We have already told you that Nehalem is highly overclockable and today we have a screenshot of a successful overclock on a Bloomfield, Core i7 CPU.


The chap managed to overclock 2.93GHz Engineering samples to a whopping 4.11GHz on air and he increased the voltage to 1.576V.

They set a multiplier to 31 and he got the final score of 4112.7 MHz and this is probably not the last stop when you overclock by air. The normal multiplier for 2.93GHz Nehalem is 22 times and you can see that the CPU has four cores and eight threads, 4x256KB L2 cache and 8MB L3 shared cache.

The CPU was stable at 4.11GHz and it finishes super Pi in just under 10 seconds, 9.969 to be exact.
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source: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9247&Itemid=1

but would it be better if bus was higher to :confused:
 
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