Nehalem goes 'mainstream' in Q4 2009 :(

[Revs]

We're talking volume production


According to sources close to a motherboard manufacturer, Nehalem CPUs in its 1366 socket won't get to mainstream by volume or price until Q4 2009. This might sounds shocking to many, as you might expect to upgrade to a quad core mainstream Nehalem in mid 2009 and unfortunately it won’t happen, at least not for a few hundred Euros / Dollars.

Nehalem will definitely launch as an ultra high end desktop and server part in Q4 2008 and it will take time until this marchitecture sinks to the attractive $200 to $300 price range.

Therefore, don't you worry about Intel's soon to be launch P45 boards and the LGA775 socket as it will serve you good for some time to come. After all, P45 is a 65nm chipset, and hey that is better than the 90nm P35, X38 and X48, at least it sounds like it.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7391&Itemid=35

[K007]

jesus..thats one hell of a long wait -.-

[Absolution]

Allows me to milk this 775 board just a bit longer!

[Ninja Prime]

You can always pay $1000+ for it in christmas 2008. :headexplode:

[Madpistol]

Can I just stick with my LGA 775 for a while? I don't feel like getting a new motherboard right now.... but then again, if it's not mainstream until late '09, what am I worried about? :p

[nekrosoft13]

thats perfectly fine, my q6600 and 680i will do fine ;)

[Bman212121]

I believe it. Right now it has been 6 months since the first penryns launched and you still can't find the Q9550 anywhere. The Q9450 is still pretty sparce and isn't at most of the e-tailers.

[Fotis]

I believe it. Right now it has been 6 months since the first penryns launched and you still can't find the Q9550 anywhere. The Q9450 is still pretty sparce and isn't at most of the e-tailers.
QFT!!

[Dazz]

You can always pay $1000+ for it in christmas 2008. :headexplode: Expect it to cost alot more then the current QX9775.

[slaWter]

No problem at all as long as they'll release the Extreme this Q4.
But maybe that's because the first mainstream socket won't be the 1366 socket... Socket H (LGA715) will be the mainstream socket AFAIK.

[Viral]

How can they have an on die memory controller on a 715pin socket? I haven't heard of socket 715 before.

[slaWter]

How can they have an on die memory controller on a 715pin socket? I haven't heard of socket 715 before.

That socket doesn't have an IMC. Only Socket B will feature an IMC.

[wolfgar]

Allows me to milk this 775 board just a bit longer!

same here. Just got my new rig working. Asus Rampage Formula with e8400 @ 3.6, 4GB, 880GTX OC.

Now I'm really glad I didn't hesitate the rebuild to Q1.

I will consider a Quad core replacement in Q1 along with one of the next gen video boards. (That NV280 sounds crazy) The prices should have fallen from their 'new release' prices by then.
Actually I wanted the quad core now, but couldn't find any.

It doesn't really matter though. We still need to wait for the games themselves to take advantage of all this new power.
quad cores, nv200, .... Hell, they don't even use the power I have available currently.

Go look at the steam hardware survey. Its sad that my old rig is still better than average there.

The downside of being on the leading edge.

Oh well, more advantage for me in TF2.. <BANG!>... Head shot..

[AngelGraves13]

I'll wait for the faster, cooler, and cheaper 32 nm shrink in 2009.

[Dazz]

Now i have hit 4GHz i don't see in me buying a Nehalem as i will be video card bottlenecked for quite a while yet.

[xbob]

I'll wait for the faster, cooler, and cheaper 32 nm shrink in 2009.

Agreed, I'll hang on for the "tock" part of the new Intel cadence. The die shrink will lead to some crazy clock speeds most likely. And like a few others, I just built this rig so I plan to milk it with Quad Core and new GPUs for a while. Hopefully Intel and nVidia can come to some kind of agreement, I am fond of SLI at this point.

[LordJuanlo]

I'm glad it will take so long, we (gamers) don't need more CPU power today

[LT.Schaffer]

I'm glad it will take so long, we (gamers) don't need more CPU power today


I Agree Totally,I'm gonna milk my rig for a long while yet:)

[walterman]

We (gamers) need "something" to run Crysis in 1920x1200 with AA/AF, & if possible in 2560x1600 too :)

[xbob]

We (gamers) need "something" to run Crysis in 1920x1200 with AA/AF, & if possible in 2560x1600 too :)

Yea, but that is the smallest percentage of gamers overall.

[K007]

Yea, but that is the smallest percentage of gamers overall.

Not to mention..game dosen't even gain much from 4 cores...2 cores yes...but 4 nothing...so more cores = pointless if games don't take advantage of it.

[Viral]

Nahalem really is all about furthering multithreading performance and regaining parity in the server marked when it comes to scaling from 2P and beyond. This is the only area where AMD has still held an advantage.

You will see better per core performance from the IMC, but anything not heavily multithreaded (read, games) it's just a penryn with an IMC and different cache layout.

Also, socket 1160 is dual channel. We might seen an extreme version use LGA1366 and triple channel, but other than that it's a platform that is intended for the server sector.

So this news could mean we won't see LGA 1160 for some time after Q4 08 and definitely that there won't be huge supplies until Q4 09.

[mullet]

LOL 8 cores. I can see it now.

core 1-28c
core 2-32c
core 3-36c
core 4-26c
core 5-45c
core 6-17c < stuck thermal censor.
core 7-39c
core 8-42c

[SH64]

We (gamers) need "something" to run Crysis in 1920x1200 with AA/AF, & if possible in 2560x1600 too :)
Yep thats all what we need right now :D

[Dazz]

LOL 8 cores. I can see it now.

core 1-28c
core 2-32c
core 3-36c
core 4-26c
core 5-45c
core 6-17c < stuck thermal censor.
core 7-39c
core 8-42c

If i recall there are no quad core samples yet, there are 4 core with Hyper threading giving a virtual 8 cores, cores 2, 4, 6, 8 will be the virtual cores