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Intel Bloomfield On X58 Board

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Intel Bloomfield On X58 Board





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Another interesting hunt over at Computex is definitely the Intel Nehalem and we managed to get our hands on a 2.66GHz Bloomfield running on a X58 Tylersburg board. Its 3DMark Vantage CPU score is pretty remarkable at 16334 which is about 45% faster than a similarly clocked Yorkfield
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Looks encouraging, I wonder how the Lynnfield and Havendale chips will shape up and if they will be a worthy upgrade for Core 2 owners if as seems likely Intel kill off overclocking in the mainstream parts.
 
Reminder of the not so good and old days of the P4s... High multis and low FSB in the begining at least.

The voltage is too low though, could this be SpeedStep working its magic?
 
Schnippzle said:
x20 multi????? thats nuts!!
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Or perhaps its simply the way CPU-Z is reading the new CSI interface. Remember bloomfield doesnt use the legacy front side bus. It has CSI (same as hypertransport) for interface to motherboard, and integrated memory controllers.

Dont care much about Lynnfield/Havendale as they are entry level "oem" style products anyway(points at Lynnfield's built in GPU) . Bottom end Bloomfields will hopefully be targetted no higher than the Q9450 ~£200, although if there are cheaper models thats ok too :P.

Depends on AMD really, Bloomfield's most logical competition is Quad Phenoms, so there may be a bloomfield option on cheaper cpus.

To get the interesting features (tripple channel DDR memory interface, and the best cpu -> motherboard interfaces), bloomfields's a must.

Pretty sure that bloomfield is not simple "Extreme Edition". It should be targetted at the current QuadCore market. Yes it will be the platform that supports the extreme processors, but that doesnt mean there wont be any "mid - high end chips". But yes, I think we can say goodbye to slapping in "2xxx" pentiums and overclocking to xxxGhz.
 
Corasik said:
Or perhaps its simply the way CPU-Z is reading the new CSI interface. Remember bloomfield doesnt use the legacy front side bus. It has CSI (same as hypertransport) for interface to motherboard, and integrated memory controllers.

Dont care much about Lynnfield/Havendale as they are entry level "oem" style products anyway(points at Lynnfield's built in GPU) . Bottom end Bloomfields will hopefully be targetted no higher than the Q9450 ~£200, although if there are cheaper models thats ok too :P.

Depends on AMD really, Bloomfield's most logical competition is Quad Phenoms, so there may be a bloomfield option on cheaper cpus.

To get the interesting features (tripple channel DDR memory interface, and the best cpu -> motherboard interfaces), bloomfields's a must.

Pretty sure that bloomfield is not simple "Extreme Edition". It should be targetted at the current QuadCore market. Yes it will be the platform that supports the extreme processors, but that doesnt mean there wont be any "mid - high end chips". But yes, I think we can say goodbye to slapping in "2xxx" pentiums and overclocking to xxxGhz.
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I agree that there will be some sensibly priced Bloomfields, similar to the current Yorkfields, but not until next summer.
 
So will it only be the mega expensive Extreme Edition cpu's that will be overclock unlocked?

or will midrange ones be also? if its only Extreme chips then they are screwing over a lot of people.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
So will it only be the mega expensive Extreme Edition cpu's that will be overclock unlocked?

or will midrange ones be also? if its only Extreme chips then they are screwing over a lot of people.
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It would appear that the midrange will be both fsb and multi locked. Just extreme chips unlocked on both.

Not really screwing anybody over though. If you have the money and want the best, buy the extreme and overclock.

So long as they offer a competitive priced product albeit locked but can then still outperform the similar priced competition from amd even when you overclock the amd then everything is fine.

Which would you rather do? Buy a new Intel cpu running at 3.6Ghz say for £300 or a AMD chip running at 3.0.Ghz but can be overclocked to 3.6GHz but costs about the same money? (assumes that performance is like for like at same clock speed between Intel and AMD, which it isn't, but you get my point?)

I guess people will be buying and running the current batch of Intel chips for some time to come if they overclock. No bang for bucks gain in swapping especially if it requires a new motherboard. If you have a E8500 running at 4.5Ghz you are hardly going to buy a new chip from Intel running locked at at 3.6Ghz which has cost you more money than your current chip.

But not everybody overclocks. I have seen people post on here with extreme chips which cost £600 and they are running them at stock
 
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^ cant say much about the above, but AMD stand to gain quite a lot if they can be overclocked a little higher than intel stock speeds and be faster.

But im betting AMD take advantage of what intel are blocking in their own chips, i hope they do at least.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
^ cant say much about the above, but AMD stand to gain quite a lot if they can be overclocked a little higher than intel stock speeds and be faster.

But im betting AMD take advantage of what intel are blocking in their own chips, i hope they do at least.
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So do I. Competition is goodf and I enjoy overclocking and getting something for free but the crunch is that AMD need to come up with the goods. At the moment their chips don't compete with Intel at price vs price basis and don't overclock as well as the Intel chips.

Okay, if Intel ones are locked in future then all AMD has to do is release a chip which when overclocked is faster than the equivalent priced non overclocked Intel chip.

But, and it's a big but, can Amd deliver the goods?
 
Bloomfield is planed for the fourth quarter and the price will start by 316 USD. The top-of-the line model will cost 999 USD. The clock frequencys are probably 2.66 GHz, 2.93 GHz and 3.2 GHz.


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