[Joedex]

For those of you who are interested....

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware ... review.ars

[numerobis]

wow very cool, thanks!

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware ... view.ars/6

HT really seems to rock this time... 3.6 to 5.1 min

and 3.6 compared to 6.2 min for qx9560 is great! ok it's 3,2 to 3,0 ghz but this looks like a real improvement...

[Eric Lagman]

Ill be interested to see how these overclock.

[numerobis]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/sho ... 028&page=3

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/sho ... 571&page=4

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ove ... ,2063.html

looks like the overclocking-protection (130w) can be disabled by bios (atm.)


yesterday intel announced the nehalem xeons for q1 2009 ...but they could be a bit cheaper

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-to ... 7856.shtml
http://www.tomshardware.com/de/Xeon-W55 ... 41941.html

[-Adrian]

Looks like i need to introduce a seperate Hyper threading column (!= cores) into Benchwell. My bets where that it had died for good with Intel Netburst (Pentium 4). Bummer

[ivox3]

According to recent reports on the Internet, the leading processors maker, Santa Clara, California-based Intel, is expected to unveil no less than 13 new CPUs, part of the company's Xeon family of processors. The new Xeon 5500 and Xeon 3500 series of server processing units are slated for a Q1 2009 release, according to sources cited by Digitimes. Coincidently or not, the news comes on the same day that AMD announced it had begun shipping its new 45nm Opteron CPUs, codenamed Shanghai.




Both series of Xeon processors, to be launched by Intel next year, have been built on the company's new microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem. These server chips are designed to provide high levels of performance in both quad-core and dual-core variants. The 5500 Nehalem-EP series is going to include 10 new processor models, while the 3500 series Nehalem-WS server CPU will be offered only in three different models.



Intel plans to release 9 quad-core Xeon processors, part of the 5500, and just one dual-core model. The quad-core models include the W5580 (3.2GHz), X5570 (2.93GHz), X5560 (2.8GHz), X5550 (2.66GHz), E5540 (2.53GHz), E5530 (2.4GHz), E5520 (2.26GHz), E5506 (2.13GHz), and E5504 (2GHz). The dual-core model will go out under the dubbing E5502. As far as pricing is concerned, these server processors will cost between US$188 and US$1,600, in thousand-unit tray quantities.



With the Xeon 3500 series, Intel will only provide three new quad-core CPUs, the W3570, W3540 and W3520, which will be priced at US$999, US$562 and US$284, respectively.

Even so ... forget the server stuff, .. I'd think I'd just prefer to build a 920 system with a nice OC. I said way back then that one of these would be close or as fast as a Clovertown 8 core is today (1/3rd of the price?). That's just amazing. I don't even know what to expect of the 32nm stuff..

What's gonna happen when the BM times get to around a minute? Fancier scene? Looks like it .....

It's too bad that the guy who BM'ed MW couldn't get the standard scene to work ...... Actually, ..the more I think about it, ..the more it really sucks. I want to know .... lol

[Bubbaloo]

It's too bad that the guy who BM'ed MW couldn't get the standard scene to work ...... Actually, ..the more I think about it, ..the more it really sucks. I want to know ....

My thoughts exactly.

Guess we'll have to wait until one of us gets an i7 and runs the test.

[Jan]

Acording this review, appear to be a good idea to buy a core i7 for render with maxwell. Maybe in the future the 64-bit render times will be more cinebench-style

[sandykoufax]

The current prices of core i7 and x58M/B and DDR3 ram are still high.

Especially in my country, the exchange rate is terrible.

So I have to wait till lynnfield series out.

I hope the exchange rate is stabilized soon.