Nehalem / X58...

RoEy · 1 Jul 2008 at 10:05

s1ick said:
Q4 = october, novermber, december. basically.

I'm guessing probably the latter of Q4. Hope sooner though.

RoEy

londonbairn · 1 Jul 2008 at 10:21

How about 6 x 4gb? :O

lopkinfop · 1 Jul 2008 at 11:58

HighlandeR said:
Tis why am gonna wait till summer 09 and octocore it.... then never bother upgrading again

.... for at least a year when they will bring out a 16 core

HighlandeR · 1 Jul 2008 at 20:43

3 months + of wait, think ill just get my new rigg now and enjoy and then in 6-12 months time upgrade again, am getting use to having a pc for 6 months or less now anyhow lol

Proberly be better to wait till Summer 09 anyhow

bakes0310 · 1 Jul 2008 at 21:34

The octocore will be my next major upgrade, i think my current rig should last another year

keyser · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:24

octocore and 8gb ram... will that be enough to run vista?

HighlandeR · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:51

keyser said:
octocore and 8gb ram... will that be enough to run vista?

Crysis ?

PhoenixUK · 2 Jul 2008 at 02:35

Crysis is outdated.

I am still wondering if 4870 1gb x4 in crossfire, new nehalem ,12gb ram and x58 mobo will be enough to run Age of Conan in 1680x1050 and 0 AA/AF in battle-keep siege with more than 25fps ....

Perfect_Chaos · 2 Jul 2008 at 03:49

So what happens when we have quad channel ram after triple?

would be nice if it could be switchable from dual - quad since by then we will have larger single memory sticks

2 x 4gb / 2 x 8gb? or 4 x 2gb etc..

Tom|Nbk · 2 Jul 2008 at 04:41

PhoenixUK said:
Crysis is outdated.

Really?

So when did a better looking game come out then?

C64 · 2 Jul 2008 at 06:00

why cant they keep the same mounting holes and distances as used in socket 775 i cant see how that couldn't be done without issue well lets hope a new tuniq tower or thermalright comes along swiftly too then

Perfect_Chaos · 2 Jul 2008 at 06:05

Tom|Nbk said:
Really?

So when did a better looking game come out then?

Not yet, but some games look pretty close to it imo.. and at least they run a ton better than the poorly coded one.

Maybe he means outdated because by the time people can afford to buy something like 2 x GTX 280's the game will be a year old

Sem · 2 Jul 2008 at 21:43

C64 said:
why cant they keep the same mounting holes and distances as used in socket 775 i cant see how that couldn't be done without issue well lets hope a new tuniq tower or thermalright comes along swiftly too then

im hoping thermalright will come out with a standalone mounting kit for these new sockets so i can keep on using my TRUE

if nothing better is out by then anyway

HighlandeR · 2 Jul 2008 at 23:14

Perfect_Chaos said:
So what happens when we have quad channel ram after triple?

would be nice if it could be switchable from dual - quad since by then we will have larger single memory sticks

2 x 4gb / 2 x 8gb? or 4 x 2gb etc..

I think we all came to the conclusion long ago that if it takes a 2k PC and even throwing 2-3 Gpus into the mix and still not being able to play a game nicely/smoothly on max res its obviously the games engine thats faulty

Corasik · 2 Jul 2008 at 23:42

C64 said:
why cant they keep the same mounting holes and distances as used in socket 775 i cant see how that couldn't be done without issue well lets hope a new tuniq tower or thermalright comes along swiftly too then

Perhaps because the chip and socket are phyiscally larger, and because the spacing of the holes limits the size of the "standard" intel orb style cooler.

MT- · 3 Jul 2008 at 19:35

I dunno why people reckon that cooler is noisy, its bleeding huge. Any fan that size wont need to spin anywhere near the speed of an 80mm fan to push equivalent air.

I hope by the time Nehalem arrives that DDR 3 timings are tightened up massively. Theres bugger all point running your RAM at 2GHz/CL9, as I see the cheaper DDR3 kits currently run at. For gaming, latency is still much more important than bandwidth (says the guy still using BH-6).

TheGamingGeneral · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:38

RoEy said:
I'm guessing probably the latter of Q4. Hope sooner though.

RoEy

Agreed, however they almost always mean the last few weeks anyway. I think am right in saying wolfdale launched Q4 in 2007 but we didnt really see them in peoples rigs till febuary time. Bit of a gap between launch and when you can actually get a hold of one, atleast if last time round was anything to go by.

If the mainstream one is £299 I will get it, anything much more and I will hold out.

Martyn

HighlandeR · 3 Jul 2008 at 20:49

Yeap hopefully by early 2009 nehalem and DDR3 will be popping up everything in alls riggs

I will then patiently wait for newer games and wait for octocore to become affordable

Smirnoff · 5 Jul 2008 at 13:05

The first batch of Nehalem chips are going to be £1k + easy, Personaly i'de wait for the 6 core extreme versions to be released.

Plasmoid · 5 Jul 2008 at 17:01

From what I can tell about Nehalem from the rumours and that, its ahead of schedule. The problem with the current 45nm chips is it was 18 months between 65nm and 45nm, but it took 24 months to convert a Fab. Fabs that started shifting to 45nm before 65nm was even ramped up are only just starting 45nm now.
Since Nehalem is good old 45nm, it will be ready in big numbers no problem. Sandy bridge on the other hand...