Intel's new
Core i7 chip has been showing up in tons of
silly-spec'd high-end gaming rigs for about three days now, so it's obviously time to get bored and move on -- and right on cue,
TechRadar's got the first benchmarks we've seen of the upcoming dual-processor Nehalem EP platform. The secret test machine featured two 2.8GHz Nehalem EP chips (likely to hit retail in 2009 as the Xeon X5560) and 24GB of 1,066MHz DDR3 RAM controlled by the new Quick Path Interconnect and on-die memory controllers, which together cranked out a SPECfp base rate of 160 -- way above the 90 posted by current 3.4GHz Xeon setups, and higher than the 105 scored by a 2.7GHz dual-processor rig with AMD's new
Shanghai chips. Yeah, that's silly fast, and it's bound to get even faster when these bad boys launch with a 3.2GHz part along for the ride. Now if Intel could just siphon some of that speed into these pokey Atoms we can actually afford, we'd be grins-a-plenty.
posted November 20th 2008 2:46PM
"Processor"!
Anyone else notice that logo looks like a Terminator. The machines will begin their take over now. Go with this board if you want to live!
For those not getting this: these are server CPU's. The 24 GB ram can and will, in fact, be used by servers, as well as all that power.
Thank you. Everyone here seems to think this is going into an EMachine at Wal-Mart.
I'm sure you're right. But the picture says "INTEL DESKTOP BOARD". Might be something like a refined i7 skulltrail system.
Mac Pro's running pro tools.
Or a very powerful workstation.
Has anyone here claiming it to be an overkill, tried to pull of some million particles and rendering it out with all those nice volumetric shaders so that you can enjoy Batman firing all those cool weapons around in theatres?
wow
Processer. Way to go there buddy.
With this much processing power, 1080p CGI movies can now be shipped on a regular sized DVD. 3GB for audio, and 1.7GB for textures and modeling/animation/dynamics instructions. These systems will just render the movie on the fly! Good bye render farms! (I wish!)
I always wished they'd make a kind of PS/PS2/PS3 movie, which is rendered on the fly.
Always thought why they didn't
This would be kind of cool for some kind of dynamically changing movie that was different with each viewing. For a standard movie, it's always going to look better with the higher quality rendering that can't be done in real time. And there would really be no point to limiting the quality AND the prospective user-base. Though it'd be kind of cool if on a Wall-E video game, they included a 360/PS3-rendered version of the movie.
24 GB Ram?!! I thought Bill Gates said we would never need more than 640K!
What would the world be like if his mom, who sat on the board of directors of IBM,
didn't convince the board to adopt his operating system. It's all about who you know.
Bill Gates never said that.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody" *was* *definitely* said by Bill Gates. He said it at an early microcomputer trade show in Seattle in mid 1981. It is the Microsoft PR machine that has tried over the years to rewrite history and pretend that Gates never made this asinine comment.
Look it up on Wikipedia
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Bill_Gates
Maybe he never said "never", but you should at least know what you are talking about before you blindly reply. Maybe that's asking too much of you.
You are all a bunch of idiots.... Bill Gates said we will never use or need 640TB of RAM.
Actually, John Opal was the president of IBM at the time and served on United Way's national board. Bill's mom also was on the United Way's national board. There ya go.
is it just me, or does that intel symbol look like a skull facing right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SkullTrail
Terminator 0.1 ...
¨Now if Intel could just siphon some of that speed into these pokey Atoms we can actually afford, we'd be grins-a-plenty.¨
What an icky statement
that skull logo fucking rules
"Upcoming *dual-processor* Nehalem EP machine benchmarked…"
I know this probably isn't what was meant at all, but — the first thing I thought when I read that was, "Sweet! An AMD-powered machine with Intel inside, too!"
I'm not positive without looking it up....wait, I better look it up...
Alright, according to Ubuntu Forums:
" Re: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 64 bit
Yup, the OS won't limit your memory. I don't know what the addressing limit of the 64 bit OS is, but it is crazy for the current hardware and much more than 8GB."
That doesn't necessarily answer the question of "Who could possibly use 24GB of RAM"
I could.
I render fractals whose size is based on the amount of available RAM. For a poster size fractal, we're looking at (depending on quality settings...let's assume 10x higher than the program defaults to -you can OC the quality-) I can eat up 4GB+ of RAM easily.
Ideally, I'd like to render the image 3x the size of a poster, then use photoshop to resize it down to poster size to compress the pixels and enhance the image, in effect, antialiasing the image beyond the capabilities of the fractal program. So with 24GB of RAM, I could use that up every day rendering fractals.
I don't sell these fractals (though I'd like to! See: http://addicted2fractals.deviantart.com for my fractals so far), it's really just for fun, but I enjoy doing it enough that I would pay for the RAM to be able to render images that are WALL size.
I really hate when people immediately scream out "Wh0 the HELL needs all of that (insert new tech here)?!?!?!?!?1111" just because they haven't found a use for it. In ten years you'll have this machine screaming about 100GB+ of DDR34 RAM in a watch.."Who needs 100GB in their watch?!?!?!?!?!?!1"
Whatever. It's a wasted comment and your carbon footprint is unjustified.
I'm just angry I won't have the money to buy this any time soon.
(looks up more OCZ memory to fill his computer with)
64 bit os can utilize up to 128tb of memory. So take it for what it is worth. Now just try to find a motherboard that can hold that much memory.
why does it say "INTEL DESKTOP BOARD" on it?
and at best this is a mid range server baord..... with the big boys getting upwards of 128GB as others have mentioned
One major change coming and a big player in major memory use is the change from 32bit to 64bit. 32bit systems like the common version of Vista and XP, realistically limit to 4GB of ram. But the use of 64 bit architechture raises the ceiling to numbers, unimaginable right now. A completely 64bit transition is a while off, rumors being that even the coming windows 7 won't be exclusively 64bit. I am anxious for the release of dual socket i7 boards as I am trying in my undergrad studies, to build a machine running OSX (can't wait for 10.6) natively for 1/2 the price of the top end Mac Pro, but with performance ability greater than what they offer now.
Cool logo. All this silicon stuff is exciting but, im an impatient human like many, i would like to see graphene processors or how about that "functioning" quantum processor. We had a LAN pary yesterday, its was freezing outside, we opened one window becouse the pc's were overheating and generating too much heat, and still it was overheating, we had a perfect rig for the COD4 server, watercooled, loads of fans. And yes heat transfer was ok, the builder is a pro. Heat is still my issue with todays processors. (except for my calculator but im not gonna be able to play crysis on that any time soon.)