Intel Quarterly Earnings Call: Kentsfield Q4 2006; Conroe will Be Fully Stocked

Ive got 2 main purposes for that quad core.. DC projects and Video Encoding. I will buy 2 Kentsfields, the rest of my DC farm will be conroe's. I can no longer justify power/watt ratio with AMD. I hope AMD can bounce back quicker than its taken Intel.. I guess we will see what 2007 brings...

As far as Ram.. Ive learned that you get one good set of ram modules in a platforms lifetime.. The rest of that platforms lifetime, companies spend trying to match the best of whats no longer available. Perhaps DDR2 will be different than DDR was. Im trying to be optimistic here:p:

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Originally Posted by Gun_Strife

why would you say less ram wont kentsfield use ddr2
so why not get a killer set now
plus i think that 500fsb is not really useable wasnt it the guy with the bt on the chipset

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1. i was talking about E6300 and 6400 OCing less RAM easier to OC
2. by not "useable" umm well he did pass pi 32m, and thats stable enough for me as i only use comps to play games and maybe encoding DVD at max so yeah thats useable enough for me

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Originally Posted by Direwolf

Buy the time kentsfield is officially released amd will probably have something worth drooling over. Always something better coming out, its just when lol. ;)

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and yeah most of us who have no connection with intel or have not bought an ES chip at ebay havent even touched conroe yet, and there r many people out there who have touched kentsfield ...

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Originally Posted by GoldenTiger

What the heck is an E4300?

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A E4300 will be a "crippled" Allendale. It will have 2MB cache, but is stripped of VT and vPro.

It will be cheap....

It will have a 800mhz fsb instead of 1066mhz........so:

9X multi......:D

I will probably do 9X400 easy!

100% overclock :banana:

Yeah, I'm with the guys that are backing away from this news.

I am having a hard time into talking myself into going with 2 cores. No way I'll be wasting the cash on 4. I just don't use that type of processing power, period. I'd get a kick out of it for like a week, then realize I wasted $800 more than I needed to.

Ryan

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Originally Posted by Charloz24

A E4300 will be a "crippled" Allendale. It will have 2MB cache, but is stripped of VT and vPro.

It will be cheap....

It will have a 800mhz fsb instead of 1066mhz........so:

9X multi......:D

I will probably do 9X400 easy!

100% overclock :banana:

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Wow, when is this coming out? Q1 2007?

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Originally Posted by GoldenTiger

Wow, when is this coming out? Q1 2007?

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Yup.... still a long time waiting.....:(

^lol.. title @ Q4 2006

i welcome it.. cant wait

bt for those who wishes to OC E6400 , 6300 to over 400, 450+ fsb u can pretty much put that dream away as the retail chips r not as good as ES B1 stepping 5 in OCing ... but i do believe it can do over 400fsb b/c of the lower multi

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

bt for those who wishes to OC E6400 , 6300 to over 400, 450+ fsb u can pretty much put that dream away as the retail chips r not as good as ES B1 stepping 5 in OCing ... but i do believe it can do over 400fsb b/c of the lower multi

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are you an insider at intel are you just talking out of you just guessing?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=107060

3.78Ghz on air with X6800, although we havent really seen any X6800 ES got to high frequency (like 4Ghz) with air, we did see E6600 , 6700 ES do over 4GHz,but chances r ES5 > retail

i am pretty sure u can go higher to be pi 32m stable which is not what iwant. For ex, i can boot this 920 at 4Ghz and can play game and all that, but its not dual prime stable so i went back to 3.8GHz...

also u do need to be a skilled OCer to get E6400, 6300 over 480fsb even with ES chips

PS: for all the post i made here, i was talking about air cooling . Of course it can go higher with TEC/phase (not sure about watercooling as its not that much better than tower 120 open case )


i mean its really easy to be pi 32m stable than dual prime stable.hell my 920 at 4Ghz was 32m stable, i think pretty much as long as ur CPU can operate and temp is not over 70~ it should be able to pass pi 32m, but dual prime .. maybe it doesnt need to be dual prime stable, who cares?!

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

1. i was talking about E6300 and 6400 OCing less RAM easier to OC
2. by not "useable" umm well he did pass pi 32m, and thats stable enough for me as i only use comps to play games and maybe encoding DVD at max so yeah thats useable enough for me

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well then unuseable for me cause it wasnt mounted in case right, it was the one with the tt bt
maybe i should say practical

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Originally Posted by whoodiestyle

isnt the kentsfield superpi times no better than conroe?

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If it's not multithreaded (which I don't think it is) you probably wouldn't see much of a difference.

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Originally Posted by GoldenTiger

I went with a Kentsfield-ready motherboard (Asus P5W-DH Deluxe) and just switched my buy.com E6600 pre-order for a much cheaper Tankguys.com pre-order of the E6400. Once Kentsfield comes out and is within my price range I will sell the E6400 for it :D. This is great news!

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Is that Asus P5W-DH Deluxe 1333 FSB capable? Or only if you OC?
I think the badaxe 304 is 1333FSB capable, with just a Bios twitch. or am i wrong? grrrrrrrrrr more crap to think about, oyyiiii the headaches.

I just want to know these quad CPU's , how are they clocked? WE talking about 2.4Ghz? :) if that is the case, i'd rather have a dual core 2.93Ghz X6800 than a quad core 2.4Ghz cpu. Now if Intel releases a 3.46Ghz Quad cpu i'd be interested, until then, the quad is not as interesting to me i guess. although you never know how it would really OC on air...

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Originally Posted by Artmic

Is that Asus P5W-DH Deluxe 1333 FSB capable? Or only if you OC?
I think the badaxe 304 is 1333FSB capable, with just a Bios twitch. or am i wrong? grrrrrrrrrr more crap to think about, oyyiiii the headaches.

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true that, it would definitley be great to have a board that supports kentsfield, im assuming that it runs at 1333fsb?

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Originally Posted by Gun_Strife

true that, it would definitley be great to have a board that supports kentsfield, im assuming that it runs at 1333fsb?

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i'm not 100 percent sure which MB supports 1333fsb "officially" without OC or what not, i think the badaxe 304 does in the bios, with a setting, but someone would have to confirm that knows that board, lol

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Originally Posted by Gun_Strife

well then unuseable for me cause it wasnt mounted in case right, it was the one with the tt bt
maybe i should say practical

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like i mention in my 3rd post i said all the OCing i was talking about were done on tower 120 open case (the best air cooling scenario)

yeah and that TTBT chipset cooling was sick lol

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

like i mention in my 3rd post i said all the OCing i was talking about were done on tower 120 open case (the best air cooling scenario)

yeah and that TTBT chipset cooling was sick lol

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must have missed that part(post)
yea very sick, just not for me, like to keep mine in a case
but of course his whole setup was great

Hey Guys, Just got online and what I read, kentsfield. (Ya Babi). I would say that this really throws me off my chair.

I was planning my next system for the Conroe Platform and now I hear this. I don't mind waiting for kentsfield. I haven't even bought Conroe yet. I am not loosing anything. Plus I don't plan to put my new system together untill the end of this year or the beginning of next year.

What's your guys opinion? Should I wait for kentsfield or just go ahead with the Conroe Platform?

THX!

Fusion!

i say if these boards out now support kentsfield then go for a new build now just choose a "low-end" conroe ie e6300/e6400
but then again if you have no problem waiting then why not
as for me im just wanting to know if these boards mainly the p5w dh will support kentsfield

I don't honestly think kentsfield is already coming out, you guys have to consider..... and I could be wrong on this....

Conroe has pretty large headroom on it, and Intel could have easily bumped the speed up on all of their processor lines. Its clear that Intel has intentions of using this overclockable headroom to release faster processors in the future for more $$$. With it being near August and these quadcores are coming out at the end of the year; it doesn't leave them much room to throw in new processors off Conroe.


I'm gonna have to call a BS on this conference call saying Kentsfield Q4, they will get out of this and push it back to Q1 07. Again, I'm no analyst and certainly not an expert, but it just seems semi-logical.

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Originally Posted by Sanborn

I don't honestly think kentsfield is already coming out, you guys have to consider..... and I could be wrong on this....

Conroe has pretty large headroom on it, and Intel could have easily bumped the speed up on all of their processor lines. Its clear that Intel has intentions of using this overclockable headroom to release faster processors in the future for more $$$. With it being near August and these quadcores are coming out at the end of the year; it doesn't leave them much room to throw in new processors off Conroe.


I'm gonna have to call a BS on this conference call saying Kentsfield Q4, they will get out of this and push it back to Q1 07. Again, I'm no analyst and certainly not an expert, but it just seems semi-logical.

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Exactly what I was thinking when I read the report about Kentsfield being released this year. Besides, is the availability of multi-threaded apps really abundant enough to warrant four cores? The video editing and distributed computing people are gonna go crazy, but other than that, does it really affect the mainstream market at all?

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Originally Posted by vegettoxp

Hey Guys, Just got online and what I read, kentsfield. (Ya Babi). I would say that this really throws me off my chair.

What's your guys opinion? Should I wait for kentsfield or just go ahead with the Conroe Platform?

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If your current computer isn't slowing you down, might as well wait, unless the quad Intel releases is like 2.4Ghz, in that case i'd never wait for it.(Not enough Juice in that puppy IMO)

My goal is to be able to purchase a dual core, and maybe 12-18 months from now pop in a quad cpu (But only if the thing is capable of 3Ghz at least)

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Originally Posted by Sanborn

I don't honestly think kentsfield is already coming out, you guys have to consider..... and I could be wrong on this....

Conroe has pretty large headroom on it, and Intel could have easily bumped the speed up on all of their processor lines. Its clear that Intel has intentions of using this overclockable headroom to release faster processors in the future for more $$$. With it being near August and these quadcores are coming out at the end of the year; it doesn't leave them much room to throw in new processors off Conroe.


I'm gonna have to call a BS on this conference call saying Kentsfield Q4, they will get out of this and push it back to Q1 07. Again, I'm no analyst and certainly not an expert, but it just seems semi-logical.

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I doubt the quad core will be released in 2006, at the earliest Feb 2007 IMO. why would Intel pour so much stuff out the door so early, i doubt AMD's 4X4 will cause any serious concern for them lol