Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

[Donnie27]

So you're saying the best way to overclock Nehalems would be to max out turbo and "tweak it to the edge" (while maintaining good clock distribution over the dice area as Drwho? stated)? Makes sense.

NO, I'm saying not being able to reach 4GHz wouldn't stop me from getting a Nehalem. Out of the box performance will be its biggest selling point, not what our tiny part of the market thinks. But at least 4 testers have said 4GHz isn't a problem and I trust them, they broke no NDA

i never saw a chipset burned by high mem voltages, even beyond 2.3V i never heard of a dead X48/P45, fried memsticks on the other hean are far more common then dead chipsets.

But wouldn't a Triple Channel controller that's running faster with lower Voltage RAM have different requirement than Dual Channel one with Higher Voltage RAM? What some seem to be saying is that; Shouldn't my 45nm Penryn have the same rating as my 65nm Conroe? Doesn't DDR3 have a lower voltage the DDR2 at or near the same speed?