Anandtech benches Nehalem

[GoThr3k]

Let's see all test done on Penryn with one stick of RAM then? Now please come and school me here? The IMC is made up of 3 64bit banks to total 192bit or 64 + 64 + 64 if only a single channel is working, even the playing field and remove one of the sticks from the Penryn system 128bit vs 64bit is hardly fair.

No it's not when you think about IMC, lower latency, then more bandwidth, I do mean processor, system and memory.

only a couple of test like high memory bandwidth

[kiwi]

I just want DDR2 to finally die

[Shintai]

I just want DDR2 to finally die

Ye, and take PCI, Parallel, ATA, Serial, PS2, Floppy etc with it. Its abit sad to see brand new boards with some 35-40 year old hangaround tech on it

[nemrod]

Ye, and take PCI, Parallel, ATA, Serial, PS2, Floppy etc with it. Its abit sad to see brand new boards with some 35-40 year old hangaround tech on it

When you have a good soft paid much more than several pc, you're happy to be able to put the hardware key... (just one example, you could find much more)

[Donnie27]

only a couple of test like high memory bandwidth

Tests yes, apps no. When AMD went from AthlonXP to Athlon64 with IMC, Games gained more than anything else IIRC. I don't know why folks wouldn't see anything similar happening here. The way some folks have jumped on the FSB is Killing performance Bandwagon, I'm kind of shocked that's not being factored in. No, I'm not putting much into a barely working board test or etc...... I much rather trust fugger, kingpin and my favorite MovieMan or etc.... testing these. Again, what I've heard so far, is that Nehalem is easily faster in EVERYTHING.