Nehalem photo

[willhub]

So what happens when we want to run our 8800 cards and that?

 

[Jokester]

So what happens when we want to run our 8800 cards and that?

That's the dual socket Xeon model, and is at a very early stage of development so the board shouldn't be taken to be a final model.

 

[Chimerical]

I hope Nehalem get an AM2 Socket style retention bracket around the CPU socket instead of just four holes like LGA775.

 

[Adrianr]

If and when all games are multi-threaded, they would still run fine on a Q6600 if they used the damn thing properly.

Essentially whats keeping my bank balance happy!

I wish everything on CS3 were multithreaded.

 

[ihatelag]

Essentially whats keeping my bank balance happy!

I wish everything on CS3 were multithreaded.

Q F T T

I wonder why it's not

 

[ColdFusion]

None of them are, 5 are PCI and the last one is PCI-X( i think)

edit: according to techreport 5 are PCE-E 8x and the last one is PCI-X

The last one isn't PCI-X it's just 32bit PCI.

I think Nehalem will be a good step forward as it is a significant change in architecture and signals Intel's agreement for the retirement of the FSB. This in itself is a good sign that the industry is progressing rather than just feeding us improved processor cores and we are finally beginning to step out of the x86 model.

Of course I agree that the whole thing seems like overkill for a software industry that can barely take advantage of what it already has on offer, but consumers should not punish the hardware vendors for being more ambitious with their developments.

In short, change is good and we should all appreciate that.

 

[Kanifee]

Dont know weather these have been posted but heres a pic of it sat next to a LGA775 for comparison.

from here: VR-ZONE

 

[Chimerical]

Glad to see that it's not massively bigger, knew the die and pin count would increase in size ages ago and was worried we'd get some plate sized CPU.

 

[Sylver123]

I was wondering, will Windows XP Professional x32/x64 w/SP2 or new to be released SP3, still work fully with Nehalem?

Iv`e just read on the internet that Windows XP Professional supports 2 sockets=2 CPUs, and 32 cores, is this right?

 

[manoz]

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I wonder why it's not

Different dev teams perhaps?

edit: just realised that doesn't explain anything lol sry

 

[tutu]

I was wondering, will Windows XP Professional x32/x64 w/SP2 or new to be released SP3, still work fully with Nehalem?

Iv`e just read on the internet that Windows XP Professional supports 2 sockets=2 CPUs, and 32 cores, is this right?

Pro supports 2 physical CPUs (so you could have two quad cores) for example.