First Nehalem system built, geekery ensues

Look, we're all nerds around here, no shame in that game, but Maximum PC is taking it to a special level with its latest write-up. They managed to sneak into an unnamed "hardware contact" who let them mess around with a mid-range, 2.93GHz Bloomfield chip -- the desktop version of Nehalem -- and an Intel D58XSO "Smackover" motherboard. No benchmarks just yet, but they do go over all sorts of interesting topics like DDR3, larger heatsinks and SLI compatibility. Riveting stuff, we tell you.

[DYLAN C @ Aug 6th 2008 11:45AM]

Yes it blends, plays crysis on high, and runs doom and in soviat russa this CPU runs you and the country!

Mmmmmm ddr3 ram with one of these....yummm

[g00n @ Aug 6th 2008 2:41PM]

Notice the Terminator T200 logo?

Coincidence?

No... CONSPIRACY

-= INTEL IS SKYNET =-

[Techie @ Aug 6th 2008 4:34PM]

I just want the hot chick terminator haha....

[DYLAN C @ Aug 6th 2008 11:47AM]

Before the grammar police get on me:

* Soviet Russia

[CharlieX @ Aug 6th 2008 11:51AM]

spelling police. but nice try.

[phanbouy @ Aug 6th 2008 11:51AM]

in soviet russia dead horse beat you

[Metkis @ Aug 6th 2008 1:21PM]

In Soviet Russia, Phanbouy you! I mean... Bouy Phan you!

Holy crap... they are both things that can plausibly happen or are true!


*explodes*

[Sensei @ Aug 6th 2008 1:32PM]

LOL

[Technex @ Aug 7th 2008 6:18AM]

I still haven't failed to laugh at these Soviet Russia jokes, rofl!

[Nick @ Aug 6th 2008 11:47AM]

Can't wait for some benchies

[icepop4who @ Aug 6th 2008 11:49AM]

that's a sick avatar. props, man, props.

[Minilap @ Aug 6th 2008 11:57AM]

yup, very nize.

[Nick @ Aug 6th 2008 12:00PM]

It's a clothing company ....

[phanbouy @ Aug 6th 2008 12:10PM]

really? are they called Backdoor Apparel perchance?

[Nick @ Aug 6th 2008 12:17PM]

http://www.astyle.it/

[phanbouy fan @ Aug 6th 2008 12:36PM]

you were close phanbouy not exactly right but you were close for sure you know about technology and you also know about clothes

[Rob @ Aug 6th 2008 12:40PM]

"Clothing Company" logo? Sure it is.
Love the avatar though.

[phanbouy @ Aug 6th 2008 12:42PM]

phanbouy fan:

we know that your joke is now tired and you're a spiteful little coward dipshit whoever you are

[phanbouy @ Aug 6th 2008 12:43PM]

by the way, i didn't claim to know about clothes, it's a joke. think about "backdoor", and what the logo looks like, then picture your boyfriend.

[phanbouy fan fan @ Aug 6th 2008 2:10PM]

you got him real good there, "phanbouy fan". he was so showing off his knowledge of fashion. ha.

[neofolklore @ Aug 7th 2008 8:05AM]

hahaha wow it IS a clothing company, i'm totally buying something from them, just so when I walk around with the logo i can say "its a clothing company"

[icepop4who @ Aug 6th 2008 11:48AM]

intel motherboard running sli?! maybe those nvidia-quitting-mcp-business rumor are true.

[Skyride @ Aug 6th 2008 12:06PM]

The skulltrail boards can run SLI and Crossfire so this is probably the nehalem equivelant.

[rock99rock @ Aug 6th 2008 1:17PM]

As the article points out, (and if you didn't read the article, (even though you probably should have before commenting) it is widely known that Intel MOBO manufacturers have the option to license the technology from nVidia to integrate at their discretion)...

"But what about SLI? If you don’t know by now, SLI capability for Bloomfield will only come through motherboard vendors who buy and integrate Nvidia’s nForce 200 chips onto the boards. Not all X58 board vendors will do this and none of the X58 boards we’ve seen have had the SLI chips. Even more troubling for Nvidia is that a recent Digitimes.com story quoted unnamed vendor sources as saying that few were event interested in even adopting the bridge chip for SLI capability. Board vendors we’ve talked to, however, say they’re taking a hard look at adopting it."

[Christian Martin @ Aug 6th 2008 11:59AM]

That is exceptionally hot stuff. Let me know when it costs less than a small used car and I'm all over it. Hell, as it is right now I'm still running Nforce 590.

[Sam @ Aug 6th 2008 12:04PM]

DDR3? What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do with this?

[Ron @ Aug 6th 2008 12:10PM]

i was thinking the same thing

[luzzio @ Aug 6th 2008 12:18PM]

It has EVERYTHING to do with this.

[Rocketboy @ Aug 6th 2008 12:20PM]

No kidding. Big whoop. My budget PC plays Dance Dance revolution just fine.

[David Phillipps @ Aug 6th 2008 12:21PM]

double data rate

[maveric101 @ Aug 6th 2008 1:02PM]

somebody didn't get the joke...

[Xaijin @ Aug 6th 2008 3:38PM]

It was so funny I fell off my dinosaur.

[Rocketboy @ Aug 6th 2008 8:41PM]

u haz dinosour?

[Aaronage @ Aug 6th 2008 12:16PM]

LOL at the name xD

"Smackover"

[Paulmichael @ Aug 6th 2008 12:29PM]

Damn, beat me to it. But yeah I'm not sure in which direction to take my jokes on the name Smackover. It's just so funny on its own.

[sam @ Aug 6th 2008 12:20PM]

shame they didnt take photos without the chipset huge heatsink on it.

[srue @ Aug 6th 2008 12:29PM]

How can MaxPC claim this is the first Nehalem system? Anandtech benched one more than two months ago.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3326

[digitallysick @ Aug 6th 2008 12:56PM]

I want bench marks =(

[joe schmoe @ Aug 6th 2008 3:32PM]

Your mom wants benchmarks. :-p

[fieldcar @ Aug 6th 2008 12:57PM]

The logo is just plain odd. It looks like a small cartoon character, with a huge head made of Intel, meanwhile torquing a wrench atop a single ski snowmobile. Odd I tell you, ODD!

[PGP-Protector @ Aug 6th 2008 1:01PM]

I was thinking the logo looks more like the First Version Terminator Skull.
Now we know what runs the Terminator, truly Intel Inside

[Hung @ Aug 6th 2008 1:03PM]

Ahem,

SKULLTRAIL RING ANY BELLS?

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Aug 6th 2008 2:51PM]

If you can see a skull, great! Your a smart guy. If you can't, go back to Gizmodo, idiots...

[wootman @ Aug 6th 2008 5:55PM]

oh snap you dissed gizmondo oh snap

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Aug 6th 2008 9:19PM]

I said G-I-Z-M-O-D-O. Not the stupid and failed portable videogame brand, but the stupid but not really failed tech blog which rivals engadget.

[CraigJ @ Aug 6th 2008 1:05PM]

I wonder how Mojave performs on this?

[Nick @ Aug 6th 2008 1:14PM]

lol I'm thinking great

[BloodReaper @ Aug 6th 2008 2:27PM]

But will it do MS DOS?

[phanbouy fan fap fap @ Aug 6th 2008 2:33PM]

LOL gay

[Guillermo @ Aug 6th 2008 2:40PM]

Actually, that's the logo for the Skulltrail platform:

http://www.strojnica.si/slike/2008/03/intel_skulltrail_logo.jpg

Can't you see the skull?