Intel brings forward Nehalem Launch

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I doubt the reference clock is designed to be overclocked on AMDs either but they seem to go high enough on select chips.

If they don't overclock well via the reference clock or the board manufacturers don't figure out a way to sneak in higher multipliers than intended through 'Turbo' then I must say I'm less tempted. A $999 CPU is probably the last thing I'll ever buy.

I'm kinda out of it on how high the ref clock on AMD chips goes, but is a 50% increase there within the realm of possibility? It's a very similar system so if 300MHz clocks from a base of 200 on AMD are possible I would assume that it's may be possible to get 200Mhz from a base of 133 on Intel.

I haven't been paying too much attention to AMD clocking, but I don't think i've seen 300. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT:
hehe, and I found some
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=167502 There's 310

So right now it's all just a waiting game. We will have to wait and see how well the reference clock does scale.