OK, who's waiting for Nahalem?

[OCdude]

OK so I've decided to put my upgrades on hold (yet again lol) because i think i can wait another 6(ish) months or so... I'm thinking i'm going to wait for Nahalem to rear it's head (specifically: Bloomfield). Thought i might as well wait until the 'tock' comes round - instead of just getting a faster Core2.

Is anyone else waiting for Nahalem? Am i just waiting for something that's not 'really' going to be such a big step as im thinking?

Also, how does everyone pronounce it? lol I say: Nah-hay-lum

 

[OCdude]

lol doh

 

[OCdude]

I've not upgraded my system in ages (see my new lame sig) - so waiting a few more months shouldn't be too hard for me (im sure a format + SP3 in the meantime should give me a bit more speed lol).

 

[OCdude]

I assume you are going to stick with dual channel rather than triple channel memory if you are looking at 8gb?

6GB for triple channel?

I would want it but if they arnt going to get games to support quad cores let alone octocores.

Bloomfield is 'only' quadcore (8x threads).

Octocore will be for servers initially (Beckton).

So says the Wiki anyways

 

[OCdude]

I think im going to run a set of benchmarks (PC mark + 3DMark or something) on my system before i upgrade - then perform the exact same benchmarks AFTER the upgrade...

Should be quite funny to see the gains! (i'm thinking... about 10x the performance across the board lol)

 

[OCdude]

Some info from the site that rhymes with a posh car manufacturer :| http://www.......net/content/item.php?item=12538

Although this confuses me:

Expect to see the first iterations of Nehalem hit the shelves in Q1 2009

But then later in the article:

we expect to see Bloomfield ship at up-to 3.6GHz in Q4 2008

???