Nehalem reviews, Part II

BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of PropagandaOKC Icrontian
edited November 2008 in Science & Tech
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... Continue reading

Comments

  • KometeKomete Member
    edited November 2008
    I guess people are over new processors. There area lot of reviews up, performance is sweet, but I'm not seeing any excitement from people reading the reviews. Maybe it has something to do with super high price of the motherboards.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2008
    Believe me, I've been waiting for this CPU since late 2006. I could not be more excited that it's here. This is a huge step forward in CPU architecture.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited November 2008
    Agreed. I'm quite excited about it because it means we don't just get new processors, but also new boards, RAM, and heatsinks.

    The Core i7 is cool, and we can expect revisions in later months to improve its performance. I think right now, the disappointment isn't with the processors but with the lack of programs that use their potential. Stuff really doesn't take advantage of four cores currently, and now Intel showed up to the party with eight.
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