Quote Originally Posted by T_Flight View Post
I'm kinda blown away. Seriously. I do go overboard sometimes. I just found something with my system a few days ago and have found it's a processing beast. Basically I found out we don;t really have the proper benchmarking programs to fully test it with except for a couple...one in particular.

This i5 thread comes out of nowhere and dang if it ain;t showing scores I never would've believed had I not seen them. That is a lower clocked, low power chip! I read the thread and had to post about it.

It's like what are they gonna do next? Roll out an 8 core 16 threaded monster and call it i10? I can't contain myself anymore.
Yeah, I can fully understand you
You are describing it with nothing but enthusiasm, but you 're right, nehalem's fast ...

But you know what ... Maybe it's not as fast, as we initially thought it would be ... I saw specific people posting on forums right after their upgrade to Conroe (mostly E6600 and E6700) : "I'm not buying anything else for my pc, I'm waiting for nehalem @ early 2009" ... I now see the same people posting : "I'm ok with my Q6600 @ 3.6GHz (yeah they upgraded when Q6600s were insanely cheap ), I'm gonna wait for the REAL technology, 32nm here we come" ...

What's happening here ? Maybe these people aren't satisfied with the progress Intel made ? I mean it's clearly not the progress we noticed from Pentium D to Conroe, or Kentsfield to Yorkfield ...

Nehalem are fast and perform really really well ... But, I reckon, they don't dazzle us ... they don't jump off the page