Unfortunately the pricing gap between the Nehalem Xeon CPU series and the Core i7 at same clock speeds will seriously hinder the value of the upcoming Gainstowns if leaked pricelists are to believed (i940=~$570 vs. X5570=~$1300).Originally Posted by Movieman
Good evening, or morning as it is here.
I generally use the dual socket systems and i was looking a couple weeks ago where the upcoming gainstown( dual socket Nehalem) system is showing literally double what the current harpertown(yorkfield) system does in terms of computational power.
From those tests a 8 core gainstown at 2930 doubled what the 8 core Harpertown system at 3333 did.
I call that a huge step forward.
No, it's not gaming, but not all of us buy based just on gaming.
I will bet you though that if I toss a couple top vid cards in my dual X5470 that it would make a decent gamer..
On the positive side the Thurley platform should provide better power efficiency and compatibility with the Core i7 i.e. using the same HSF, RAM, SouthBridge. Although RAM will probably have to be buffered and registered but the cost is incremental and heat dissipation should be much less than the current FBDIMMs used by the DPs now.
Perhaps a Skulltrail Extreme
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