Nehalem Motherboards

[Blauhung]

they look like any other dual socket board, just that the nb is missing...

They have a nb, they just don't have to squeeze it in between the sockets and the memory anymore.

[Zytek_Fan]

Socket placement is loads better now

[tetete]

dual real CPU and 8x4=32 GB of Ram would be soooo sweet~~

[iddqd]

Don't need a video card for a server.

Well, depends on what you're doing with your server. If, say the server is going to be used in a render farm, it will most definitely need a video card.

[Zytek_Fan]

dual real CPU and 8x4=32 GB of Ram would be soooo sweet~~

It's actually tri channel now, so each CPU has 6 slots.
12x4 = 48 GB

[m^2]

It's actually tri channel now, so each CPU has 6 slots.
12x4 = 48 GB

Supermicro: 18x4 = 72 GB

[roy_bono]

this is the real one

[disruptfam]

when are these due out?

late this year?

[bowman]

when are these due out?

late this year?

Q4 08. So yeah, late this year. There's more info in the other thread (nehalem ep bloomfield or somethingorother).

[Zytek_Fan]

when are these due out?

late this year?

Bloomfield and Gainestown are due in Q4, with the rest of the range launching in a H1 2009 timeframe.

[alpha0ne]

this is the real one

Thats amazing..............I remember my old E6600 ES was only getting low ~12s @ 3.8GHz

[Movieman]

Not necessarily, not even likely. The memory controllers in K8 could also deal with unregistered and registered DDR1 and later DDR2. The mainboard (BIOS to be precise) nails down which one is required.

You have a point that FB-DIMMs are overall unlikely. It's probably too complicated to put a memory controller onto the die that does unreg and FB-DIMMs. And it isn't as required as it was for socket 771 because now you can have one memory bank per CPU, avoiding the huge bank mess that 771 ran into.

That still leaves registered or unregistered as choices.

I hear the DP Nehalem boards will use unbuffered ECC DDR3-1333 memory

[Kingcarcas]

How do people tell the difference between 6/8/12 phase designs? I happen to like Gigabyte BTW

[T_M]

Typically you can count the number of chokes.

[[XC] gomeler]

How do people tell the difference between 6/8/12 phase designs? I happen to like Gigabyte BTW

Number of chokes gives you an idea of all "theoretical" phases. Gigabyte uses a simulated 12, 6 actual phase controller. Each phase of it's controller is doubled up to give you a simulated 12 phases and increased current handling capacity. You can get into the nitty gritty by figuring out what current balancing controller the board uses, most are either 4 or 8 phase.