I wouldnt worry about DDR3 prices some 9-10 months from now. They will be very close to DDR2 prices.
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I wouldnt worry about DDR3 prices some 9-10 months from now. They will be very close to DDR2 prices.
nvram is connected via the external chipset :confused:
Well, how about that. 192bit (trichannel) DDR3...
Say hello to near-20GB/s memory bandwidths and DDR3 trikits from every DIMM builder out there.
how is DDR3 on Bloomfield directly connected to CPU? I see anything else on picture ...
Great info leomax :up:
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Not sure why you say that? My wife has a Dell Otiplex with it Prescott 670 (3.8GHz) which has a TDP of 115W. http://processorfinder.intel.com/Det...px?sSpec=SL7Z3
No it's not OC'd but her computer is very quiet and hasn't over heated in 2 years of use (including extended 100% loads while encoding video).
XS OC'ers need LN2 regardless of TDP, but the average user (even a non-OC'ing power user) can easily get proper cooling for 130W. Also, the Bloomfield chips will have their own socket LGA1366. As such, they most likely will have a completely difference reference board design.
Only thing that surprises me is only 1.1x-1.25x on single threaded improvement? That means we won't being seeing that much of an increase except for multithreaded tasks, which is nice, but I was hoping for a big increase all around
x86 cant improve much anymore. And thats basicly what we see again and again. Core 2 was roughly 20% faster than Core and Athlon.
Also why we have the multicore race after the ended gigahertz race.
Thats the penalty of a 30 year old design. If it wasnt for shrinks we would be seriously stuck.
So 10-25% is ALOT. AMD people should know :p:
complaining about the 130 tpd ... why the p4 EE used to suck more out of the wall outlet and that was a frikkin single core and way less efficient as this one.
i'm more interested in how much the normal dualcore's will use. It wont be that much i hope.
btw shintai ... good point ;)
because it is nvram (non violent ram )(Non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) is the general name used to describe any type of random access memory which does not lose its information when power is turned off.)
atleast that's what i think
Different socket between high end and performance? Bleh.
Unless LGA1366 is for the dual socket enthusiast platform...
Otherwise Nehalem looks like it's FTW!
Yep, once DDR3 becomes the memory standard (for Intel platforms anyway) the prices are sure to drop significantly :up:
Single threaded performance is already very strong on Penryn, Core 2's biggest weakness is still multithreaded performance, in terms of per core scaling it does worse than K10. So I'm glad Nehalem addressed this weakness, whilst being able to get a substantial boost in single threaded performance as well.
Besides, as Shintai said, now that the MHz race is over, it's time for the core race. Multithreading is the future, and Nehalem with an IMC and HT should prove a monster in this regard.
waiting for penryn prices to drop like a rock so I can afford a quad with a 9x multi