Upcoming Intel CPU: Nehalem (The final end of AMD?)

[Goran]

More gossip about the late 2008 debut of Intel Nehalem CPU:

Well, no fun here - he didn't want to comment on the CPU core-specific performance expectations beyond the well known integrated memory controllers and interconnects. But he did say that the CPU core performance jump from the same process Core 2 (Penryn) to Nehalem would be higher than the jump for Netburst to Core 2 itself.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/16/idf-taipei-nehalem-real-big

If half of that is true, I'll upgrade next year again :)

[walterman]

QX9650 launches on November, and the rest of quads in January.

If Nehalem launches on April-May, well ... i dunno what do to.

[slaWter]

I think Nehalem will launch in Q3 or Q4 08, not in the first half of the year.
Still, such an early release would be awesome!

[methimpikehoses]

Ugh, don't tell me I'm going to end up buying a Q6600, a Q9450, and then a nehalem when it comes out.

I don't live far from Nehalem.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Nehalem_OR_2007.06.17.jpg/800px-Nehalem_OR_2007.06.17.jpg

[superklye]

Ugh, don't tell me I'm going to end up buying a Q6600, a Q9450, and then a nehalem when it comes out.

I don't live far from Nehalem.
I like the song by Everclear, too.

[Bman212121]

I like the song by Everclear, too.

Heh, I've never even heard this song by them. It's okay I guess, but it's quite a bit different than the songs I know them by.

Isn't Nehalem going to include 8 core as well, or is that another arcitechure?

[Amuro]

Nehalem is not going to launch till second half of 2008. And yes, it can have up to 8+ cores with on-die memory controller, and possible on chip but not on-die GPU.

[agentkay]

The cores will support hyper-threading as well, IIRC.

[Saintster]

That's what I'm looking forward to along with everyone else around here.

[Vasot02]

Jesus...I am really tired seeing new hardware around the corner every time

You just buy a Q6600 and in few months it will be OLD

[methimpikehoses]

I like the song by Everclear, too.

Everclear is from Portland, so yep it's the same Nehalem.

[walterman]

Well, i've been thinking about next upgrade. It's always a mess.

I think that i'll go x38/penryn/ddr2 in January.

If there's a 75% faster "single" gfx card than the 8800GTX, then i'll buy it, and a 1920x1200 screen too.

And i'll swap to the 8 cores version of Nehalem + DDR3 at the end of 2008 or later.

[Treason]

Any thoughts on his second part of the question? I don't think AMD will end just that abruptly, althought AthlonXP1800 may have a different reply. :p

[Saintster]

I'm in no rush for the first time I'm not really staying on the bleeding edge,I just switched to Intel 4 months ago but for the future this looks like the way to go. I'm really happy that the video card cycle slowed down a bit but the cpu cycle is amazing.

[Monolyth]

Q3-Q4 2008, not April/May, remember there is a die-shrink in there for the Yorkfields/Wolfdales.

Nehalem will be a new socket, so look forward to at least a mobo upgrade. I'll be going DDR3 then since price should be lower and hopefully high-speed 4GB kits will be cheaper. Not to mention better latencies. ;)

[Goran]

Nehalem will have 2 threads per core so if you go Octa core you get 16 threads. I guess Crysis will run pretty good on that setup :D

[SH0DAN]

The cores will support hyper-threading as well, IIRC.


Some thing like that,but not exactly.