Intel brings forward Nehalem Launch

[r4gm4n]

Not sure if this has been posted and/or if its true but thought I'd post.

Originally scheduled to launch in November or December this year, Intel's Nehalem-based Bloomfield processors will now launch in September along with X58 chipsets, sources at motherboard makers have revealed.

However, the sources pointed out that CPUs and motherboards will not officially appear in the channel until early October.

Since Bloomfield CPUs are not socket compatible with previous Intel platforms, the accelerated launch is not expected to cause competition between the company's own products, although the same cannot be said for AMD's scheduled AM3-based CPU launch, noted the sources.

Soruce: http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080724PD205.html

[mascaras]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...190762&page=31

[LuckyNV]

News enough to warrant a separate thread IMO.

Only months away

[Oldguy932]

Sweet... this means I can make my first dual socket system even sooner.

[bowman]

Haw haw, dual socket Nehalem. It will eat games, scare small children and melt your face.

I think I'll stick to uniprocessor after all.. Should still be quite a step up from dual core AMD.

[r4gm4n]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...190762&page=31

Was posted at the same time & this thread was triggered before the other one

[MGreg]

Nice, can't wait.

[Logos]

funny, 'cause someone said September as well for the launch a few days ago here on the forum...and I didn't believe him, wonder where he had it from IanY? you're there?

[postumus]

oh boy finally a reason to upgrade (hopefully!)

[r4st4m4n]

I know what will be under my Christmas tree at the end of the year

[Nelly]

Just a rough guess below, but DDR3 may go up in price with demand who knows.



$300 or £200 inc vat - X58 Motherboard (DDR3) (Rough Guess)
$300 or £200 inc vat - Intel Core 2 Quad LGA1366 'Bloomfield' 2.66GHz 8MB-cache Processor
$450 or £225 inc vat - 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz (3x2GB) (Triple Channel)

$1050 or £625 inc vat = Total
__________________________________________________ ______________________________
August Prices (i.e. price drop)
$200 or £100 inc vat - P45 Motherboard (DDR2)
$330 or £200 inc vat - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache Processor
$110 or £ 65 inc vat - OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR2

$540 or £365 inc vat = Total

[bowman]

You'll want 6GB DDR3, it's triple-channel.

[metachronos]

Kicking AMD while they're down eh?

[Nelly]

You'll want 6GB DDR3, it's triple-channel.

Cheers, I've changed the prices etc to reflect that - hopefully prices will lower by release date on DDR3.

[clayton]

I thought the Extreme Edition was going to get 6 cores while the server will get the 8???

[largon]

Ho-hum.
Yet another uber-expensive platform & CPU that has no use whatsoever for majority of users.
I'll pass and put my money on things that will actually gain me something. Like a video card.

[LuckyNV]

Actually I'm certain it was mentioned that motherboards will be equivalently priced to todays P45/X48s.
They should be less since the IMC would be located off the motherboard, but I won't argue with P45/X48 prices.

[Blauhung]

I thought the Extreme Edition was going to get 6 cores while the server will get the 8???

hehe, nope, not untill the 32nm shrink called Westmere

[bowman]

I thought the Extreme Edition was going to get 6 cores while the server will get the 8???

There are rumors that the 32nm version will be a 6 core product. (edit, okay, not a rumor, Blauhung says it is a 6-core :P) Beckton is coming in Q3 09, it's an MP 8-core server product.

Nope, no 6-core this year apart from Dunnington which is also an MP server product, but not Nehalem.

[Linchpin]

Ho-hum.
Yet another uber-expensive platform & CPU that has no use whatsoever for majority of users.
I'll pass and put my money on things that will actually gain me something. Like a video card.

QFT

I'll probably pick up a second-hand 45nm Yorkie when people start upgrading and save most of my cash for video cards a watercooling setup.

[Jacky]

Ho-hum.
Yet another uber-expensive platform & CPU that has no use whatsoever for majority of users.
I'll pass and put my money on things that will actually gain me something. Like a video card.

that sounds a little narrow-minded, not everyone's a gamer. I'm sure the damn platform and cpu has a use even to office users, as it is probably the only competition intel has and a reason to lower prices for york/wolf.

[Donnie27]

Ho-hum.
Yet another uber-expensive platform & CPU that has no use whatsoever for majority of users.
I'll pass and put my money on things that will actually gain me something. Like a video card.

Folks once said the same thing about Q6600.

[Extelleron]

Just a rough guess below, but DDR3 may go up in price with demand who knows.



$300 or £200 inc vat - X58 Motherboard (DDR3) (Rough Guess)
$300 or £200 inc vat - Intel Core 2 Quad LGA1366 'Bloomfield' 2.66GHz 8MB-cache Processor
$450 or £225 inc vat - 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz (3x2GB) (Triple Channel)

$1050 or £625 inc vat = Total
__________________________________________________ ______________________________
August Prices (i.e. price drop)
$200 or £100 inc vat - P45 Motherboard (DDR2)
$330 or £200 inc vat - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache Processor
$110 or £ 65 inc vat - OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR2

$540 or £365 inc vat = Total

$450 for 6GB of DDR3 is a very unrealistic price, not to mention that 6GB of memory is rather insane. 3GB is going to be enough for most people. You can get 2GB of DDR3-1333 for $60 right now. So you can expect to pay maybe ~$100 for 3GB of DDR3 in Q4, DDR3-1333 with good latencies.

It's probably more like:

Nehalem 2.66GHz : $300
X58 Motherboard : $200-300 depending on manufacturer
3GB DDR3-1333 : $100
Total Price: $600-700

[stangracin2]

$450 for 6GB of DDR3 is a very unrealistic price, not to mention that 6GB of memory is rather insane. 3GB is going to be enough for most people. You can get 2GB of DDR3-1333 for $60 right now. So you can expect to pay maybe ~$100 for 3GB of DDR3 in Q4, DDR3-1333 with good latencies.

It's probably more like:

Nehalem 2.66GHz : $300
X58 Motherboard : $200-300 depending on manufacturer
3GB DDR3-1333 : $100
Total Price: $600-700

i like these prices alot better

[Donnie27]

$450 for 6GB of DDR3 is a very unrealistic price, not to mention that 6GB of memory is rather insane. 3GB is going to be enough for most people. You can get 2GB of DDR3-1333 for $60 right now. So you can expect to pay maybe ~$100 for 3GB of DDR3 in Q4, DDR3-1333 with good latencies.

It's probably more like:

Nehalem 2.66GHz : $300
X58 Motherboard : $200-300 depending on manufacturer
3GB DDR3-1333 : $100
Total Price: $600-700

Once DDR3 becomes commonplace, the prices will fall, not go up anyway. Thats how it has always been and will always be. It's not mainstream and that's why it cost more. Heck, look at DDR1 prices?