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Release Price of Nehalem

Farore

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How much would I be looking to pay for a middle-of-the-road Nehalem quad core processor on release compared to say, a few months down the line?

Is Nehalem going to be good for gaming?

Thanks

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According to Aanandtech (and I'm sure others, just everytime you say something like this all the boys jump on you shouting for links) Nahalem will see no ( or very little ) increase in gaming performance over a good Penryn system.
 
Farore said:
How much would I be looking to pay for a middle-of-the-road Nehalem quad core processor on release compared to say, a few months down the line?
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no one can say for sure, it's down to supply & demand, if supplies are good but demands great that'll push up & keep the prices up for quite some time, plus, if the dollars strong against the pound that'll also effect the prices as well. in short, time will tell.
 
Hope they come in at a good price! The dollar has got stronger against the pound, so its not looking too good! :(
 
Adrianr said:
According to Aanandtech (and I'm sure others, just everytime you say something like this all the boys jump on you shouting for links) Nahalem will see no ( or very little ) increase in gaming performance over a good Penryn system.
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Depends on clocks though, it they stay at the same integer performance but can clock a lot better than that really makes up for it, i would get one :)

It is a weird bet for Intel though, but a necessary one, finally moving to an integrated memory control will be great, but none of the architectural changes will bring any immediate benefits to us - that'll come with the 32nm shrink.
 
I'd expect them to come in at the same price (for midrange) as the Q6600 did about 6 months ago.

Gaming performance might not be uber improved but the short pipeline architecture will be excellent news for video encoding\decoding!
 
crestj said:
I'd expect them to come in at the same price (for midrange) as the Q6600 did about 6 months ago.

Gaming performance might not be uber improved but the short pipeline architecture will be excellent news for video encoding\decoding!
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Can't see that unless Q6600 were £250-£300 6 months ago?

I would expect the cheapest to be £200 minimum. Look at the replacement for the q6600? £35 more expensive but much less cache and a low mutlitplier so overall performance clock for clock is the same as the old part but costs 20% more money.

Always the same with new technology. So expect same performance but for more money so they will be more the Q9xxx prices IMO.
 
Cool...guess im gona have to start saving those pennies!

So the elimination of the FSB has little impact on gaming....dissapointing tbh!
 
Well it's what ive been waiting for. Hopefully they'll be a new line of gfx out by then.

maybe the GTX380 or the 5870(?)

xmas pressy to myself ;-)
 
vorm said:
Well it's what ive been waiting for. Hopefully they'll be a new line of gfx out by then.

maybe the GTX380 or the 5870(?)

xmas pressy to myself ;-)
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I`m not sure but I think NVIDIA`s GTX 280 Series will be replaced with newer card some time next year, but not sure about ATI.
 
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Sylver123 said:
I`m not sure but I think NVIDIA`s GTX 280 Series will be replaced with newer card same time next year, but not sure about ATI.
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The Nvidia cards should have a die shrink by the time Nehalem is out...

Dont think the GTX 3XX range will be out or a new ATi series :p
 
Bennie-Mac said:
The cheapest one is meant to be $280, ive a funny feeling there was a link on another thread about the prices.
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Was that retail or price per 1000 units?

Even retail, makes the budget cpu £188 with exchange rate and VAT. Probably £200+ as most things never convert directly in the early days.

If price per 1000 then the retail price will be more.

Even so, at £188, the cheapest cpu is not going to be the one which you can overclock to 4GHz+ so for much less you could have a E0 E8500 with your current mobo without laying out silliy money on a new mobo and ddr3 ram.
 
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