How much RAM will you go for when Nehalem is out?

gt_junkie · 29 Jun 2008 at 12:06

Having seen the improvement in vista moving from 4gb to 8gb i'd say i'd be getting at least 12gb when i eventually move to Nahalem.

TBH my wolfie is doing me just fine at present anyway - probably the best CPU i've ever had.

gt

psychas · 29 Jun 2008 at 16:54

so if it does not use fsb and need 1333mhz ram any ram above 1333 will be useless?

Cob · 29 Jun 2008 at 17:00

Not quite. It's going to love memory bandwidth, so the faster the memory the better.

Reality|Bites · 29 Jun 2008 at 17:04

it will overclock the same way the A64 did.
In the bios it will still be called the FSB

Cob · 29 Jun 2008 at 17:53

It'll likely be called something like CPU Frequency. Gigabyte currently calls the FSB 'CPU Host Frequency', whilst Abit call it 'External Clock'.

smyth · 29 Jun 2008 at 18:37

I'll probably go for 6GB unless it is ridiculously bad value for money then it'll have to be 3GB or wait until DDR3 becomes reasonably priced

stoofa · 30 Jun 2008 at 13:53

I'm currently running 4GB of DDR3 (4x 1GB) so I expect I'll initially buy another 2x 1GB and run 6.

Corasik · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:21

lopkinfop said:
but it will be for the extreem so a bit longer for the mainstream

No, Extreme and high end mainstream are on intels roadmap, thats fairly likely to be a 2.66ghz part targetted at the current Q9450 price bracket, and a 2.93ghz part targetted at the current Q9550 price point. And then of course the extreme priced at silly levels

Possible intel will not follow their roadmap.. Yes, but there is a fair chance we'll get non extreme nehalems this year. Just not the budget and low mainstream parts.

PhoenixUK · 2 Jul 2008 at 16:33

4gb 3x, thats for sure

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