Will you still get core i7 knowing this?

[miguelca]

xgman, thanks for posting this pic and starting this thread.
I want you to know that this is just my two cents and I thank everybody for reading my opinion.
In no way I want to start any kind of negative discussion or cause the impression that I'm smarter than anybody.
In this community called XS, I consider myself an apprentice.

This warning doesn't bother or discourage me at all.
When I bought my actual DDR3 memory, I didn't spend a fortune because I was already expecting that it wouldn't be compatible or adequate for use on the upcoming i7 platform.
I just wanted to learn how DDR3 behaves on a daily usage setup, but without taking the risk of throwing it away in a few months.

The chipset and architectural changes will be big on i7, and we should all be prepared to fight some long battles setting up memory in the first Nehalem desktop (and server) systems.
Most of the problems we had on AMD platforms will now "haunt" Intel.
Setups like "triple-channel" for example, will probably require stupidly high quality memory in order to be stable, and lots of tweaking for sure.
IMHO the whole DDR3 memory scene will (must) improve a lot in the following months.
Lower voltage and higher performance is the mandatory way to go for Intel, and since the Core architecture was released they're on the right path (again IMHO).
I wouldn't be surprised to find memory manufacturers soon releasing 3GB or 6GB kits (or maybe greater), with 2000+ MHz stock speed, functioning at a mere 1.4 or 1.5v.

Many people think voltage is the cure for every successful OC.
Of course that many components in fact need the extra power to be sucessfully overclocked.
In what concerns RAM, and from what I learned on my latest experiences while testing high-speed and high-capacity DDR2, I could see that most of the kits wouldn't OC better no matter what voltage I'd throw at them.
Some IC's simply don't react to more volts.
Adjusting skews, carefully setting up timings and learning how to deal with some settings that simply have different names from one MB brand to another, is much more important (and hard) than give more juice to the components.
Mid and high-end motherboards with P45 and X48 chipsets need a lot of tweaking in order to make memory perform well.
This will be probably even much harder on the X58.
But, no matter how hard the fight will be, I'm anxious to experiment with Intel's new babies!

Come on guys and let's be positive.
We're about to spend some huge amounts of money just to be cool and up-to-date.
Intel certainly is working very closely to the memory manufacturers, and they're probably trying to create the need for i7 certified RAM kits to emerge.
New architecture, new socket, new memory, new... God knows what.
Marketing BS soon to come.

At least let us hope that the performance improvements are worth the change.
If they do I'll have no problem buying a platform that requires me to be careful with the memory voltage I setup.

Well, enough BS from myself already.
Sorry for this huge post, that may not make any sense at all.