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Chris_S · 24th July 2008, 10:44 PM

Another opportunity to exhume the corpse...

Allegedly, Intel's Nehalem-based Bloomfield processors will now launch in September along with X58 chipsets

chainbolt · 25th July 2008, 3:42 AM

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Originally Posted by moloko vellocet

What we've going to see is a move that will be very reminicent of the move from socket 478 to 775. We'll be hit with new CPUs, new memory configurations and a new socket all at once.

This is all known and has been discussed since at least 1 year. It's already news history. People moved very fast from 478 to 775, despite the incredibly stupid stories such as "775 socket can withstand only 10 insertions" etc that were circulated, also here, by the detractors. And by the way there are 2 new sockets coming: LGA1366 and LGA1160.

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Originally Posted by moloko vellocet

... those watching their bottom line will be questioning why they should make the move to the new platform.

They will watch only for one thing, and that is the incremental performance and additional features the new platform offers. Eventually everybody will move anyway. And DDR3 prices have been dropping faster over the last months than DDR2 prices did 3 years ago. The price drop is enormous, if you want I can show you statistics. In addition to the early adapters, there are many people with older DDR or even SDRAM systems, who anyway need a completely new system. Only those who are planning in the near future to invest heavily in an expensive Wolfdale/Yorkfield platform might get second thoughts. But they have been warned.

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Originally Posted by SLATYE

I don't think that Intel expects people on a budget to even look at LGA1366. LGA1160 is designed for cheaper systems, but that won't be released until late next year. In the mean time, LGA775 will remain the standard socket for people who don't have too much cash available.

so, no reason to panic for anybody.

SLATYE · 25th July 2008, 1:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris_S

Another opportunity to exhume the corpse...

Allegedly, Intel's Nehalem-based Bloomfield processors will now launch in September along with X58 chipsets

Nice! Given that Intel's not exactly facing competition on this, I can only assume that it means that they're getting excellent yields (and so there's no reason not to launch it as soon as possible). Hopefully the mainboard manufacturers are ready for the early launch; it'd be pretty annoying if the CPUs were available but the mainboards were still barely usable.

If they plan to launch it so soon, they'd better come up with a name. I'd assume it'll just be "Core 3" - but it wouldn't be the first time that Intel have done something unexpected.

Sub.Zer0 · 25th July 2008, 2:42 PM

I'm sure Asus will flood the market with plenty of x58 boards with immature BIOSes.

slobber · 25th July 2008, 2:44 PM

I wonder if they (Intel) will have similar problems that AMD had with the first A64 cores re memory compatibility problems and scaling ???

Fingers crossed but I'll wait a couple of months now before buying LGA1366 as temptation got the better of me (again

) in the form of the now cheeeeeeep as chips E8500

Oh and paired with a nice new LANPARTY DK P45-T2RS PLUS

Slavetonet · 25th July 2008, 3:39 PM

I will buy the cheapest low-end model.
Get some ok DDR3 ram and overclock it to 3.6GHZ if that is possible.
I would be happy with that result.

Wow.. just reformat my old pc and install XP SP3 on it. Snappy system.

Mikey_D · 25th July 2008, 4:26 PM

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I just hope i get can an x58 mATX board

I would be so all over that shit.

Tenoq · 25th July 2008, 8:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Sub.Zer0

I'm sure Asus will flood the market with plenty of x58 boards with immature BIOSes.

I'm sure Abit will flood the market with plenty of x58 boards with immature BIOSes.

Fixed that for you.

From an unhappy owner of the AW9D-MAX.

Anode · 25th July 2008, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Sub.Zer0

I'm sure Asus will flood the market with plenty of x58 boards with immature BIOSes.

Never a truer word spoken. To top it off, when you go looking for the new bios, the website turns to shit. They are fucking useless.

Slavetonet · 29th July 2008, 2:00 PM

Do these cpu come dual core as well?

SLATYE · 29th July 2008, 2:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Slavetonet

Do these cpu come dual core as well?

Not the LGA1366 ones. They're just meant as high-end CPUs; and dual-core no longer counts as "high-end".

For a dual-core, you'll have to go with LGA1160 (when that gets released).

Mensuri · 29th July 2008, 2:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SLATYE

Not the LGA1366 ones. They're just meant as high-end CPUs; and dual-core no longer counts as "high-end".

For a dual-core, you'll have to go with LGA1160 (when that gets released).

Which will be about Q3 09 according to scuttlebut.

Ironman · 29th July 2008, 4:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Sub.Zer0

I'm sure Asus will flood the market with plenty of x58 boards with immature BIOSes.

haha....I laughed and laughed. So True and no doubt the most unstable board will be a $1000 beautie called the Extreme Dominatrix IIIV Extra+ (with the absolute top of the range componentry yet strangely even unable to run reliably when overclocked, non-clocked and underclocked with only one combination of bios settings that works but it taking years of experimentation to discover the unique million-to-one permutation in which case the bios auto updates and it fails again). hehe....

Sub.Zer0 · 29th July 2008, 6:40 PM

Cue Asus Rampage Formula!!!

Xon1kz1991 · 29th July 2008, 8:01 PM

Kinda bad how intel has made the dual cores and quad differnt sockets :/ oh well. I think I might wait 6 months after the boards ram and cpus come out because of prices and bugs I don't want to buy a new system and have it crash when I'm almost done making something!

and does this mean QX9650's and QX9750's will drop in price?

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Xon1kz1991 (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: May 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 39	Kinda bad how intel has made the dual cores and quad differnt sockets :/ oh well. I think I might wait 6 months after the boards ram and cpus come out because of prices and bugs I don't want to buy a new system and have it crash when I'm almost done making something! and does this mean QX9650's and QX9750's will drop in price? Last edited by Xon1kz1991; 29th July 2008 at 8:04 PM.

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Sub.Zer0 (Banned or Deleted) Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Melbourne Posts: 3,538	Cue Asus Rampage Formula!!!