New Intel Processors Announced

HeX · 8 Jan 2008 at 14:25

bigguns said:
when will the first set of these babies come on pre order/ready to sell?

20th Jan is official release I believe.

Jezza101 · 8 Jan 2008 at 14:36

Draeger said:
I know I'm being a bit "tight" here, but the good thing for me for this is that all the "OMG.....I must have the latest CPU" kids will help push the prices down of the current gen C2D's and Quads.

I'm a skinflint so I always usually buy "just" a generation behind as far as PC stuff goes and thus far, I've never regretted doing so.

"Bang per buck" and all that.....

I agree, but this case is not so clear cut. I think it can be argued that the 9450 will be good value and most people do seem to agree that this chip hits a good spot - depending on final UK price of course! Now if someone had bought one of the current top quad cores for closer to £1000 then fair enough!

Quad cores are no longer really "new" - been around for some time now! And with this batch of chips are, imo, heading towards mainstream.

Are quads good? Depends of course! I cant wait to get virtual machines up and running, database servers, etc. One process will be less likely to max out your PC for significant lengths of time! Finally I can multitask!!

Im upgrading from an old 754 chip so this is going to be a big leap for me. If you have a 6600 and just play single process games then well it's a no brainer really..

One thing's for sure - this is not just for rich kids with money to burn!

siege2 · 8 Jan 2008 at 16:21

Can I preorder a cpu now the new Penryn If so how, do I phone a special number ?

Deluxe1 · 8 Jan 2008 at 16:29

No pre-orders yet,if they are under a nda then you will have to wait until the actual day of release.

siege2 · 8 Jan 2008 at 17:09

thanks for info ,

Tom|Nbk · 8 Jan 2008 at 17:17

I have a C2D @ 3.6Ghz

I only use my machine to game, browse the web and play music etc.

Do I need a Quad penryn?

Or should I go for a Dual Penryn with high clocking (which proc is the best in this respect?)

Not kept to date on these recently but will be purchasing one.

Bouncer · 8 Jan 2008 at 17:20

which chip have Apple just put into the the Mac Pro today?

They say you can have 2 quad core penryn xeons at 3.2GHz each, but Intel haven't released such a chip have they?

Cob · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:06

Bouncer said:
which chip have Apple just put into the the Mac Pro today?

They say you can have 2 quad core penryn xeons at 3.2GHz each, but Intel haven't released such a chip have they?

The Penryn Xeons (X54xx and E54xx) have been out for a while now on the server Socket 771.

easyrider · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:16

Tom|Nbk said:
I have a C2D @ 3.6Ghz

I only use my machine to game, browse the web and play music etc.

Do I need a Quad penryn?

Or should I go for a Dual Penryn with high clocking (which proc is the best in this respect?)

Not kept to date on these recently but will be purchasing one.

E8400 will do 4ghz+ on air.

And I doubt you will see much of increase in real terms as games are GPU limited now at C2D speeds of 3.6ghz.

Q9450 will need a solid 500FSB for 4ghz which is unlikely.

Or 450FSB for 3.6ghz again a big ask on current mobo's

Its a difficult choice. It really is a bummer the low multi's of the quads.

Cob · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:24

Yeah it's looking less and less like a wise upgrade for those of us with a Q6600.

I'll maybe just swap my B3 for a good clocking G0 when the time comes, but we may yet be surprised by Penryn.

prosser13 · 8 Jan 2008 at 19:05

easyrider said:
E8400 will do 4ghz+ on air.

Closer to 5ghz...

And Vertigo1, latencies have little impact on performance with this architecture, so it'll be fine

Devious · 8 Jan 2008 at 19:16

prosser13 said:
Closer to 5ghz...

How many motherboards run 555FSB 24/7..

prosser13 · 8 Jan 2008 at 19:29

Hopefully soon there will be more than currently can seeing as this chip clocks so well

mk17 · 8 Jan 2008 at 20:05

for me, I'm wondering what kind of penryn upgrades will be brought out half-way between penryn and nehalem? Following the Q6600, for example, will a "G0" equivalent update bump multipliers, reduce wattage, etc?

Nehalem demands an upgrade to a new socket, so how best to maximise current DDR2/775s I suppose?

I'm hoping that a substantial upgrade to penryn in 6-9 months time would give enough of a boost to wait until nehalem is past the early-adopter price points, or even further. 10+% or so right now doesn't seem to justify it, imo.

Having said all that, I'll have to stay off the web for my own good for about 12 months

Adam_D200 · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:27

I need to do a full pc upgrade from an ancient athlon xp/agp system.

What sort of memory and board will I be looking at for using a quad penryn?

Things change I've changed · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:30

E8400 it is then.

easyrider · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:36

Devious said:
How many motherboards run 555FSB 24/7..

Not many,

He's exagerating.

rikky · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:39

I wonder if any Quad Core users will be tempted to take a backwards step and go back to just a Dual Core E8400??
I think I could be tempted as to be honest say 4ghz Dual Core and 4 gig of memory seems like a better option than 3ghz Quad Core does.

prosser13 · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:46

easyrider said:
Not many,

He's exagerating.

Me?

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=2277

No, I'm really not :/

easyrider · 8 Jan 2008 at 21:46

rikky said:
I wonder if any Quad Core users will be tempted to take a backwards step and go back to just a Dual Core E8400??
I think I could be tempted as to be honest say 4ghz Dual Core and 4 gig of memory seems like a better option than 3ghz Quad Core does.

Not when I can easy max all cores with editing and encoding.

I'm running Quad a 3.8ghz now