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Intel Nehalem and AMD Phenom Update

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comp@ddict
comp@ddict Original post #1
Aug 27, 2008 at 8:14 PM
INTEL:-

Well, to update all on nehalem.

1.The 2.53GHz Bloomsfield i7 has been tested and posts a score of 16000+ in PC Mark.:)
2. The 2.83 GHz almost touches 18000.:)
3. This is compared to the QX9770 which gives a 10300 score only :D


---Intel announced that mainstream nehalems will not be overclockable while others will be.:mad:


---ASUS has displayed a X58 prototype that supports 6 Graphics Cards and 24GB DDR3 1900/2000 MHz RAM.:eek:


---Performance nehalems will be priced anywhere between 266$ to 1200$:x





AMD:-

1. AMD quietly started selling low cost Phenom X2's a while ago.

2. AMD phenom X4 9950 B.E. price drop from 235$ to 186$, 4$ more than the X4 9850 B.E. which is now going to be selling at 182$.
The X4 9950 B.E. thus claims a sweet spot with prices almost touching 7.5k in India(I'm sure of that, at least after this price cut). Thus this makes us think twice before buying another one of the Q6600 which is although priced at 183$, is a little put down in front of the X4 9950.

3. AMD Deneb no further updates. Although the OCing has been facilitated to 3.6 Ghz now. Quite good huh.



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Hustlerr
Aug 27, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Nice, Thx for info though !!

My friend is soon gonna buy a PC, so he can wait for lil more now
comp@ddict
Aug 28, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Its Advisable to always mention the source as well.............thanks for the info though...



Sorry but I read it on the blackberry and the source was not very easy one to copy, my bad.
desiibond
Aug 28, 2008 at 4:07 PM
awesome. :)
comp@ddict
Aug 28, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Well, the Phenom X4 9950 B.E. will be available for about 8.7-9k from next month onwards once the price slash effects India.

And AMD Deneb, no further news yet, looks like Intel is going full out with Nehalem, or maybe AMD is hiding something!!!!
T
The Conqueror #6
Aug 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM
Awesome :razz:
comp@ddict
Aug 29, 2008 at 3:50 PM
One more update: the Deneb procc. from AMD, which has 2.5GHz speed, has been successfully OCed to 4.05GHz.
x3060
x3060 #8
Sep 1, 2008 at 3:45 AM
holly , that's some serious OC.
Psychosocial
Sep 2, 2008 at 11:51 PM
INTEL:-

Well, to update all on nehalem.

1.The 2.53GHz Bloomsfield i7 has been tested and posts a score of 16000+ in PC Mark.:)
2. The 2.83 GHz almost touches 18000.:)
3. This is compared to the QX9770 which gives a 10300 score only :D


---Intel announced that mainstream nehalems will not be overclockable while others will be.:mad:


---ASUS has displayed a X58 prototype that supports 6 Graphics Cards and 24GB DDR3 1900/2000 MHz RAM.:eek:


---Performance nehalems will be priced anywhere between 266$ to 1200$:x


AWESOME. one more nice step by Intel.

AMD now finding a way to hell.......
forever
forever #10
Sep 3, 2008 at 10:53 AM
We were surprised to see that the Bloomfield generation of CPUs will officially support DDR3 800 or 1066. Even the extreme edition 3.2GHz Core i7 officially only supports DDR3 1066 and not faster. There won't even be an official support for DDR3 1333 not to mention 1600 or faster.


Fudzilla has already mentioned the fact that for some reason you need to run memory CPU voltage synchronously which might be an overclocker's worst nightmare. At this current stage you cannot go over 1.65V and some memories such as DDR3 1600 or DDR3 2000 might need a bit more than that. With more than 1.65 you will kill any current Nehalem CPU.

Bloomfield Nehalem doesn’t run with DDR2 memory as the memory controller is inside of a CPU and so far we are not aware of any plans to release Bloomfield Core i7 CPU that would support DDR2.

Source
desiibond
desiibond #11
Sep 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM
It's bad that ddr2 support is not there. DDR3 costs a bomb right now. This means that the Core i7 rig wil blow your wallet away :)
Psychosocial
Sep 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM
^^No, I think that with the launch of i7 the steep DDR3 prices will come down by a great margin :).
desiibond
desiibond #13
Sep 3, 2008 at 11:16 AM
^^ Hope so :)
forever
forever #14
Sep 3, 2008 at 2:49 PM
^^No, I think that with the launch of i7 the steep DDR3 prices will come down by a great margin :).

Yeh to hona hee hai. Demand badegee, price girenge :D
MetalheadGautham
Sep 3, 2008 at 2:53 PM
I am waiting for Deneb X4 9950 BE :D
EXTREME overclocking bliss 8)
desiibond
desiibond #16
Sep 3, 2008 at 4:31 PM
and am holding my PC upgrade for AMD's Fusion. :)
Psychosocial
Sep 3, 2008 at 6:39 PM
Me waiting for Nehalem no matter what the faults. I am upgrading on 1st November.

Nehalem + X58 + 4GB RAM + VFM NVIDIA GPU at that time.
comp@ddict
Sep 3, 2008 at 9:44 PM
VFM nvidia

Possible the 10800GT or the 10600GT lolz:D
desiibond
desiibond #20
Sep 4, 2008 at 3:48 PM
If it doesn't, I will go for Nehalem :)

As simple as that :)
MetalheadGautham
Sep 4, 2008 at 5:22 PM
I hope we see a repeat of the Athlon XP pwning Pentium 4 era.

Since cheap nehalem ! = OC and since Deneb 2.5 GHz cheaper than Phenom 2.5GHz 9850 cheaper than Rs. 10,000 OCable to 4.05GHz, Deneb is THE way to go for me.
nvidia
nvidia #22
Sep 4, 2008 at 5:30 PM
^^yeah.. And Deneb will run on AM2 sockets right?
So ill sell my 6000+ and buy a Deneb :cool:
@desiibond: Fusion wont come out anytime soon. Nehalem will be old by then.
desiibond
desiibond #23
Sep 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM
^^I know that Fusion is going to take another year or two and my HD2600XT would serve for atleast another year.

As of now, everything runs at superb speeds on my rig and that is the reason I have decided to wait for Fusion.

If Fusion fails, I will get the best I can get at that point of time. :)
nvidia
nvidia #24
Sep 4, 2008 at 5:38 PM
^^Fusion won't fail. AMD is the 2nd largest GPU and CPU manufacturer. Combining them in one piece of silicon will be the end of Intel :D
desiibond
desiibond #25
Sep 4, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Am really hoping that AMD will get back to the Athlon XP and Athlon 64 like glory days.. :)
nvidia
nvidia #26
Sep 4, 2008 at 6:09 PM
^^Check this out:cool:
ultimategpu
Oct 16, 2008 at 4:52 AM
intel is way 2 ahead ........


No at the end of 2009 INTEL is going to die in the hands of AMD ------------ AMD glory days has come back --------- both dual core / pentium 4 ------ already died in the hands of ATHLON ........ now core2quad gona die in the hands of AMDdeneb------ phenom9850/9950 which kills core2quad6600 in hardmultitasking
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hellgate #28
Oct 16, 2008 at 9:59 AM
Me waiting for Nehalem no matter what the faults. I am upgrading on 1st November.

how will get hold of Nehalem on the 1st of November when its gonna release on the 17th of November?:confused:
comp@ddict
Oct 16, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Well, INTEL has some shocks for us, i've mad ea new thread, check
comp@ddict
Oct 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM
ANd also hold on, cause there's gonna be a price slash after that, which shud be a good one...
C
Cool Joe #31
Oct 18, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Thanks for the info. The price is set a bit too high, and that's what I'm complainin about. After these babies are released, the current Intel processors will become cheap, so they'll offer the best VFM then.
utsav
utsav #32
Oct 18, 2008 at 8:24 PM
how will get hold of Nehalem on the 1st of November when its gonna release on the 17th of November?:confused:

lolz. Special source hoga :D
comp@ddict
Oct 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Kya special source?

*www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9850&Itemid=35

THE ROAD MAP Lynnfield is a bit different from Bloomfield as the QPI controller has been replaced by a PCIe 2.0 generation controller. The memory controller has also been stripped of one channel, which leaves two DDR3 64-bit channels, which also means that it only need 1160 pins instead of the 1366 pins Bloomfield requires. It still sports 8MB shared L3 cache and 256KB L2 cache per core. The last of the bunch will be Havendale, the one with the integrated GPU that had been moved back to 2010. Havendale sports two CPU cores, not three that some of you might have thought, and one GPU core. The specifics of the GPU is so far unknown but it should certainly be based on something Inteltastic so expect a focus on the basic features and not performance. The L3 cache will be cut in half to 4MB, since there are only two CPU cores now.
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