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Kentsfield sample overclocked to 4.8GHz

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Intel's quad-core Kentsfield processor isn't even out yet - Intel expects to release it in the fourth quarter of this year-but members of the XtremeSystems forums have already gotten their hands on some engineering samples of the chip and are overclocking the pants off them. One of these members, who goes by the name of Stoolman, got his Kentsfield up from the stock 2.66GHz to a clock speed of 4.8GHz. The processor did need just under 1.9V of juice along with a healthy supply of liquid nitrogen to get to that speed, and it stayed within a fairly chilly range of -170°C to -180°C (-274°F to -292°F.)
 
One of our XS team runs a ES Kentsfield on Rosetta@home.

Damn Powerful chip, the Cinebench's it put's out are sick.
It will be crunchers heaven when it hits mainstream, but by then a large portion of us will have Conroe's.
 
gr1mey said:
might just wait for these instead of going for a Conroe at the end of the year :)
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Thats my plan, if i don't buy now i will easily have enough money saved to get one. And i would expect the price of conroes to drop when the kentsfield comes out, so either way i win :p
 
Dont expect such ludicrous clocks from these chips on air or even water guys, the heat output is astronimical even at 1.5v your looking at around 70+C.
 
--ki-- said:
Dont expect such ludicrous clocks from these chips on air or even water guys, the heat output is astronimical even at 1.5v your looking at around 70+C.
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The guy running it on Rosetta over at XS, NJKID does so at 3.5Ghz i belive on air, not bad at all imo. This things stomps, he was outproducing a 4 way AMD Opteron 875 Machine, the Opertons where at stock but even so thats damn impressive. Weather that trend will continue now that rosetta has moved to a new reward system is debatable but those things Stomp anyway you look at it, the power a Clovertown machine will have is simply breathtaking.


The only question i have about them is price, to me it doesnt make sense to release quad core 1 quarter after you release such a dominating dual core cpu, they cant/wont be competeing in the same markets, i assume kentsfield will be aimed at home/small business workstations that where previously dual cpus had been used, this puts them in a different price band in my mind, i expect prices of 900+ for a kentsfield and wouldnt be surprised to see them over £1000 maybe £1200. This will keep them out of range for the average user and as such conroe will still sell well, Kentsfield still gets proven before they move to four cores on a single die setup. Untill AMD can match the performance of intels quad core, the prices will stay high imo.

Is there any word on expected prices for either kentsfield or clovertown??
 
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There is an article on dailytech.com today where they state that the first kentsfield will be released at $999 in q4. They seem to be branding it as a c2d extreme at 1066fsb.
 
There due this fall just in time for Vista release (hopefully) but there priced $999, proberly £550-600 UK

Bit pricey but heck one E6600 is enuff to last a life time... having 4 cores, hopefully its a pc that can perhaps last 2-3 years +
 
$999 seems cheap, relatively. Has OCUK any price estimates on these at all?


I wonder if twice as many cores again means twice as much demand for memory bandwidth over what Conroe allready needs to multitask.
With this much processing power emerging so quickly how will the rest of the system ever keep up and not end up throttling the effective performance available.

Someone also has an 8 core chip allready, 4x as much power as Conroe - potentially.


Will an asrock run a kentsfield ? :o
 
we have ES versions coming in end of the month hopefully if the intel rep holds up
woodcrest is already winning contracts for us and we've managed to clock past 4ghz on air albeit we are using an enviromental test chamber to keep temps around 10 degs
should point out we manufacture pcbs so have quite a lot of equipment at our disposal
but when these quad cores turn up we hope to be up there breaking that barrier :P
 
HighlandeR said:
There due this fall just in time for Vista release (hopefully) but there priced $999, proberly £550-600 UK

Bit pricey but heck one E6600 is enuff to last a life time... having 4 cores, hopefully its a pc that can perhaps last 2-3 years +
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Hopefully there will be some decent motherboards out then. Im patiently waiting for a Intel DFI Lanparty SLI mobo. . .
 
HighlandeR said:
There due this fall just in time for Vista release (hopefully) but there priced $999, proberly £550-600 UK

Bit pricey but heck one E6600 is enuff to last a life time... having 4 cores, hopefully its a pc that can perhaps last 2-3 years +
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That price seems very low to me, i hope your right as i hope to build a clovertown system, means a lot lower costs than i expected, but honestly id be surprised if that was the price. id suggest a minimum of 850 for launch price.
 
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