NDA on Nehalem has been lifted

The reviews are falling out of the sky...


Guru3D Review
http://www.guru3d.com/article/intel...and-965-review/
Core i7 Multi-GPU SLI Crossfire Game performance review @Guru3D
http://www.guru3d.com/article/core-...ormance-review/
PC Perspective
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=634
Hexus
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=16187
Techreport
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15816
Extremetech
http://www.extremetech.com/article2...,2333764,00.asp
Hothardware
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Int...8-Have-Arrived/
Tomshardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...halem,2057.html
Neoseeker
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/H...core_i7_review/
Driverheaven
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=656
Tbreak
http://www.tbreak.com/articles/8/1/...CPUs/Page1.html
Trustedreviews
http://www.trustedreviews.com/cpu-m...ure-Overview/p1
Techgage
http://techgage.com/article/intel_c...rmance_preview/
Anandtech------------------------------------------->good one
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/in...doc.aspx?i=3448
Nehalem - Everything You Need to Know about Intel's New Architecture @Anandtech
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/in...doc.aspx?i=3382
VRZone
http://sg.vr-zone.com/articles/prev...setup/6163.html

This should give you guys a nice head start on getting an idea of what the ne platform will bring to the table.

This info. was originally posted by onethreehill over @ XS


Enjoy

The most exciting line about the Core i7 965 Extreme is: ""Overspeed protection removed" - overclockable with variable multipliers!!!" I'm sure you've pre-ordered that beast already.

actually I have not. I had an opportunity about three weeks ago to get my hands on one but told them no thanks as it is still to early to tell from the results that I have seen. The extreme one is the only one that can even come close to giving me what I need in terms of getting points on hwbot that would take over what I have done with my E8600. It is going to take at least 5.4GHz in order to even have a chance of competing in the bulk of synthetic benchmarks. Sure it will dominate in 3D06 and vantage but overall it is just to large of investment at the time. Especially when the mobo that I would get with it would be in the neighborhood of $600~$700 dollar range.

Now while up to this point all results have been done with ES chips I am still watching for what the silicone in the retail batches bring to the table. If you look at the reviews also the triple channel vs. dual channel is really of no gain atm. Hopefully with BIOS updates this will change. Also for all you gamers out there don't look for this to be any big help as from the comparisons I have seen this is not paying the bills vs the penryn lineup when you look at the cost/performance ratio.

Simply put this a server grade technology that I just can't justify the mainstream computer user as any real need for. That's unless you are into building dataservers in your home

If I do get one it will b/c it was given to me for review purposes which I am hoping for very soon

Holy FUCK

I'm just hoping the 4 virtual cores can be used for F@H!!

They can. I have seen some folders on other forums already using them. The fact is though GPU's will always dominate when it comes to PPD IMO.

That's good to hear because 2xSMP and 4x GPU is a good thing to plan for!!

Now that would be a sick combo for a folding farm. The thing that is pretty neat about these processors is that while under load if they stay below a certain temp threshold they will actually OC about 200MHz or so with the "turbo" feature enabled. Nice to see this incorporated. I mean they always knew when to downclock when idle, it was about time they introduced this.