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Well in all fairness i did push it up to 1.55 for a few hours to make various 3d bench attempts, i think once i mightve even tried 1.6. I really wasn't too careful.
And this is all on air.


And back to nehalem, this is the first single die quad core isn't it?
all else aside i think nehalem is a miracle of microarchitecture.

1.6V for a 45nm chip with high-K/mg is a bit of a stretch.

Nope,Nehalem is not a first single die quad core(generally speaking).As for a miracle,it's quite impressive and extremely complicated.That's why intel decided to make it @ 45nm and not @ 65nm.It's base line Penryn ,but with a lot of both small and big tweaks.The biggest change is ,for sure, the riddance of FSB.QPI+ IMC is going to help them a lot in multi socket server market.On desktop,i doubt it make a big difference(apart from SMT and IMC that will make a difference compared to C2Q).

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1.6V for a 45nm chip with high-K/mg is a bit of a stretch.

Nope,Nehalem is not a first single die quad core(generally speaking).As for a miracle,it's quite impressive and extremely complicated.That's why intel decided to make it @ 45nm and not @ 65nm.It's base line Penryn ,but with a lot of both small and big tweaks.The biggest change is ,for sure, the riddance of FSB.QPI+ IMC is going to help them a lot in multi socket server market.On desktop,i doubt it make a big difference(apart from SMT and IMC that will make a difference compared to C2Q).

I agree but it seems some Geeks want to have it both ways. I'd said and been jumped by some for saying FSB and IMC on the Desktop isn't that big of a deal. I said then that Nehalem gains will be had from Core improvements, not just QPI and IMC that's meant for servers and 4 plus sockets, since Dual Socket Boards already use 2 FSB's with great results. Ask Movieman? Where QPI and SMT will help on the desktop is VT and Multitasking.