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Intel Bloomfield On X58 Board

In pricing terms I reckon it's gonna go down like:

Bloomfield replaces Yorkfield. (mid-high end quad core)
Lynnfield replaces Wolfdale (low-mid range quad core)
Havendale replaces Celeron and Pentium Dual Core (low end dual core) - oh and Havendale is a GPU-CPU combo as well apparently.

Which'd make sense I guess.

Edit: Also, according to Wikipedia, there doesn't seem to be a single product incapable of executing 4 threads simultaneously. There is no single core processor and everything has hyperthreading.
 
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Lightnix said:
In pricing terms I reckon it's gonna go down like:

Bloomfield replaces Yorkfield. (mid-high end quad core)
Lynnfield replaces Wolfdale (low-mid range quad core)
Havendale replaces Celeron and Pentium Dual Core (low end dual core) - oh and Havendale is a GPU-CPU combo as well apparently.

Which'd make sense I guess.
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100% correct Lightnix. :)
 
I hope they've fixed the problem with hyperthreading where a dual threaded app loads Cores "1" and "2" but core "2" is just the hyperthread of core 1 and the other 3 cores sit there doing absoloutely nothing while 1 core is 100% loaded.
 
Strife212 said:
:O

I can't see them launching a £200~ Bloomfield in Q4 2008. Perhaps its lost in translation and it is just going to be the 999 dollar part out then.

(Sorry for double post)
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I definitely agree with your thinking! Aside from the CPU prices, I think that DDR3 will still be expensive compared to DDR2 in 4Q08.
 
Strife212 said:
:O

I can't see them launching a £200~ Bloomfield in Q4 2008. Perhaps its lost in translation and it is just going to be the 999 dollar part out then.

(Sorry for double post)
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You're probably right there. Chances are they'll get the Xeon parts out first along with an Extreme Edition for early adopters, then once they feel the product is mature enough and that they can satisfy demand they'll start releasing the mainstream consumer parts.
 
I just emailed Viper John, people will know him as the guy who mods cards by volt mods & waterblocks of his own.

Anyway, i was asking him what he thinks about the nehalem and he says its going to be a bust for the enthusiast market basically and would be better off having a highly clocked C2Q for anybody that wants to overclock, and that AMD need to put intel back into the same position as what happened when intel had P4 and AMD fought back with the A64 and came out on top.

We need a miracle from AMD, arent they still stuck on Phenom well into next year? or are they planning major improvements?
 
oh kk thanks for clearing it up for me.

as well i heard that mid ~ high range will use 1366 socket and low~mid range 11** cant remember the numbers is this true to ?
 
psychas said:
oh kk thanks for clearing it up for me.

as well i heard that mid ~ high range will use 1366 socket and low~mid range 11** cant remember the numbers is this true to ?
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Indeed.

Mainstream stuff will be on 1160 socket.
 
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