http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/ Engadget Comments for Intel readies 8-core Nehalem-Ex processors for a March launch http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
That game looks amazing! Suddenly my 4850 looks like a POS lol]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Just kiddin ya.]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Dude I used to have a lunch box with your face on it!]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
THE HELL IS THIS GUY?]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/It sure as hell can run Crysis. Heck maybe it can render Crysis 2 in software]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Isn't It March Now?]]>Mar 8th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
... Well then - Let's Do This!]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Even POWER6 at 4.7-5GHz is still competitive against Nehalem on benchmarks. Intel has some catching-up to do.]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Power7s are 3-5x the price...]]>Mar 9th 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Jesus, that's...

Yes, 91,100. ]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Oh man, a 16 core Mac Pro with 32 threads, this thing will be a beast. Though the real question is will it have a decent graphics card option, I would really hope they have at least an ATI 58xx as a choice.]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/oh not this again... The Mac Pro is a dual socket machine.. Nehalem-EX is for 4+ socket servers...

However, the new 32nm 6-core Westmere chips are a perfect fit...

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]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/I don't know if I should even reply based on your name but these are DESKTOP processors. But related to your question the Core 2s in the MBPs are outdated and should be updated anytime now.]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Blasted Pentium 4! Why can't you stay competitive!?]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Processor technology is so far ahead of any OS and software written for it that it is almost pointless spending this amount of cash. (unless you are trying to project nuclear simulation or missile projectiles)

Running Snow Leopard and Win 7 on my current "old" Mac Pro with only 16 cores it is very difficult to make any software really use all cores consistently.

Final Cut Pro = nope, CS4 = nope, Handbreak = nope, Aperture = nope, LR = nope. All above software together = nope. Why, the weak link here is HD (3X1TB RAID 0) and RAM (16GB) which still slows everything down. ]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Also, part of it is that writing multithreaded software is just hard. Period. ]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/try SSD RAID0]]>Mar 8th 2010 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/"continual glowing approval by everyone who doesn't know a thing".
Everyone.....I run Win7 on the Mac Pro and on Win PC with equal " relative poor results" and have done so for the last 15 years.

This was not about Mac vs. PC.

RAID 0 on SSD is better for "small" rad and write, but when dealing with large data the performance difference - still noticeable - but not that great vs. 3X1TB RAID 0 HD's. (SATA II limit) The best performing SSD's (intel, OWC and OCZ) are still prohibitively expensive. 2x 200GB SSD costs 1'600 USD.

My point was more the inability to create a better balance between hardware and software. Besides poor scheduling and multitasking, there are issues like memory leaks and other stuff which makes software the Achilles heel of the computer platform. (any platform) ]]>Mar 8th 2010 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 9th 2010 3:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/You won't so soon. This is server-grade, not workstation-grade. Notice the quad-channel memory - it means different socket.]]>Mar 9th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/Mar 8th 2010 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/08/intel-readies-8-core-nehalem-ex-processors-for-a-march-launch/
Exactly what I was thinkng... which is why it's on the right side of that slide, compared to the 7400 series.

http://www.intel.com/itcenter/products/xeon/7400/

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