Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
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



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?
For the memory controler topic, it will give you much more than and Phenom or Yorkfield, at 1066 ... you will notice very quickly that you can go far above 30GB/s without anyproblem as soon as you increase the Mhz of the memory. Using the Qimonda awesome DIMMs, you can get over 40, at 1.55 (lol x 100000) ... Now, the real question is simple ... Do you know an application today what will need this? Of course, I am working with the developpers and H264 profiles with 32 frames motion estimation will using this, but it will take 6 months, as usual to see real use of so much bandwidth. Remember, we are talking about double the best OC phenom ... something that a high end Quad processors does today ... and all of this in a small single processor PC overclocked
You guys need to concidere Intel SSD raid if you want to chalenge 10% of this mem bandwidth ...

You ll see some pretty scary boost on SETI, Rosetta, Folding at home, even the astro pulse workload will be more "human"

Stay tune, we are almost there.