Nehalem photo

Azza · 15 Feb 2008 at 13:50

Its massive.

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Schnippzle · 15 Feb 2008 at 13:52

Cant really say its massive as we have nothing to scale it with....looks cool though.

Azza · 15 Feb 2008 at 13:53

Schnippzle said:
Cant really say its massive as we have nothing to scale it with....looks cool though.

Its massive...

sargatanas · 15 Feb 2008 at 14:13

Thats a whole lot of pins, does look pretty big.

FutileBreadMachine · 15 Feb 2008 at 14:34

pfff, I've seen bigger. zing!

gary996 · 15 Feb 2008 at 19:49

How many pins is there? Any one seen specs?

Lightnix · 15 Feb 2008 at 20:46

1366... As given away by its socket name, LGA 1366.

Lots of stuff (capacitors? resistors?) on the bottom of it, though... Bet it draws a load of power.

Tute · 15 Feb 2008 at 21:25

Don't forget it took AMD from 462 to 754 pins to get the memory controller onto the chip - 292 pins extra to be exact.

Intel are taking a lot more though, from 775 to 1366. An extra 691 pins. Then again it is a whole new architecture. IIRC, the Athlon 64s were just Athlons with the memory controller and 64-bit extensions.

Jokester · 15 Feb 2008 at 21:27

Most of those extra pins are for the triple memory channels

Tute · 15 Feb 2008 at 21:32

Jokester said:
Most of those extra pins are for the triple memory channels

Ah there you go. I didn't realise they were implementing that.

How will it work? Three sticks?

psychas · 15 Feb 2008 at 22:56

my precious cant wait for those babys

will we need new socket for them ?

PGdude · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:12

Yeah, they're on the already mentioned LGA1366.

I can't wait for some serious benchmarks.

square_imp · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:16

looks pretty mad, what sort of timescale are we on for release of these?

Jokester · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:17

End of this year for server and high end/extreme consumer models.

theforce · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:44

Bah they seem very promising so i shall keep my aging PC for now and start saving!

weescott · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:44

Jokester said:
End of this year for server and high end/extreme consumer models and Jokester.

Quoted For Truth

Jokester · 15 Feb 2008 at 23:47

weescott said:
Quoted For Truth

Sylver123 · 16 Feb 2008 at 02:29

Jokester said:
End of this year for server and high end/extreme consumer models.

@Jokester, do you mean the desktop versions will be available just at the end of this year also or are you
taking about the high end server ones and that the desktop versions will be released sometime in 2009?

Aod · 16 Feb 2008 at 03:08

so this is what my student loans will be spent on next year

Jokester · 16 Feb 2008 at 10:24

Sylver123 said:
@Jokester, do you mean the desktop versions will be available just at the end of this year also or are you
taking about the high end server ones and that the desktop versions will be released sometime in 2009?

Desktop versions will be the end of this year. Expect there to be at least an Extreme version and maybe some other high end chips.