Reminder: Intel 'Nehalem' Talk Tomorrow
Reminder: Intel's tech talk for its Nehalem-based Xeon processors, will occur tomorrow, Tuesday, March 31st.
The talk will center around why the Nehalem architecture is an all around excellent CPU not only for consumers but for business customers as well. The talk will be hosted between Intel performance engineers and engineers at Dell, who are up for a big Xeon release. Interestingly enough, Apple is the first company out the door with Nehalem-based Xeon systems with the recently annoucned Mac Pro.
"Join us at 1pm CDT on 3/31 for a live chat session with Dell and Intel Performance Engineers. We will discuss performance benefits of the Intel XEON 5500-series processor, code-named "Nehalem" microarchitecture."
Intel has opened a forum on the talk page, already allowing users to post questions they may want answered
How many of you are already using Intel's Core i7? If you are, what did you upgrade from?
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I recently had a choice of keeping my Quard Q6600 (motherboard and ram died) or going to the i7 core. I decided to go with a Nvidia 285 and keep my cpu and go with a very nice motherboard and ram. I think it looks like a very nice chip, but for playing games I didn't see that big of a huge difference.
I consider moving to the i7 architecture a very good move, as the 5400 XEON series is the end of the line for the LGA771 socket.
The upcoming 5500 (code Gainestown) XEON series will feature an LGA1366 socket, and I hope it won't be changed too soon, so it will be easier to upgrade when it goes octo-core (16 CPU rendering FTW!) or when a new line-up will be available.
That being said, I can't wait to build my workstation around this architecture, and I'm already searching for DP motherboards compatible with XEON 5500.
Iv Had a I7 for about 4 months now
Upgraded from an Athlon XP 3000 (6-7 years old PC)
Works very well for me and my house m8 has done the same and its working fine too
both clocked up to 3.8 to stay on safe side