With the official hush order lifted on Intel’s Nehalem, Icrontic’s inbox flooded with information about the chip coming in from all across the globe. Usually, these sort of things go in the Tech Ticker but there’s so much important news that it’s getting bumped to the main column.
First up is Tech Report’s tech report. The general feeling you get is that the Core i7 chips aren’t revolutionary, but merely a progression of what we already have. It’s evident when the C2D E8600 is a contender in some cases. Next, they throw Asus against Intel to see who has the better X58 board.
TweakTown tests it in a bunch of synthetic benchmarks and then gives it a go in Crysis. They’re pleased with the ridiculous memory bandwidth the Nehalem offers. They’ve followed up with a short bit on cooling the new Socket 1366 processors.
Benchmark Reviews is overwhelmed by the chip and has decided to make its review a multi-part affair. So today we get their summary of the architecture and chip. Later reviews will focus on other components in the Nehalem/X58 world.
Hexus gives their requisite take on the architecture. Then they followed with tests against common Core 2 and Quad Core Intels for some good old tyme benchmark action. It’s worth a read if you like your words spelled with extra vowels. The colour of the aluminium heatsinks makes me well chuffed, etc.
Guru3d also wrote up an intro and then went straight to the gaming benchmarks with multi-core SLI and CrossFire comparisons. This part is badass.
Finally, MadShrimps benches it, and then overclocks it on air and phase change. These chips get crazy hot the harder you push them and their power consumption goes crazy. The price we pay for four Hyperthreaded cores.
And if you haven’t had enough yet, t-break and Hard Techs 4U also gave their two cents, pence, francs, rupees, and marks.
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