Oh those gaming numbers have to be horse****. Hexus did some gaming benchies even with games utilize up to four cores and nehalem still got beat out by the current 45nm penryn quads. Yeah, maybe you can get a 30% boost in 3d apps like furmark but with no proof so far to counter hexus.net illegal benchies I doubt nehalem will be a gamers chip.

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I don't give a blitz ass. I want one of those in my next build, regardless of how much they may cost (umm... ~500max).

I'm wondering if it's time for me to retire my E6600 and get one these new Nehalem babies... Any thoughts?

Nahelem is a very balanced architecture. It has fast cores, large caches and fast i/o and will be very formidable. AMD has a bit of performance left however going forward a new architecture with wider cores and hyper threading needs to happen sooner rather than later. Intel had a faster core architecture and they added a lot of improvement in the i/o subsystem, AMD needs to now improve their core architecture and leverage their experience with HT and on-die memory controllers. I think the competition between these companies brought out the best in microprocessor design in the last 10 years. I hope this can continue.

Pfff, media encoding and rendering. Of course Nehalem is going to be faster simply because of Hyper Threading. Show us a typical desktop app that uses 1 - 4 cores and Yorkfield and even Penryn will be a lot faster simply because of the fast, large, L2 cache. Add in the fact that Nehalem wont likely overclock as far, and then there's no real point for an upgrade until the 6 core version and better multi-threading app support.

the power!

Considering the Nahelem chip is designed for the HPC and High end server markets I can't wait to see how well they scale in multi-socket motherboards/systems where NUMA and cache coherency performance can be measured.
As expected,QPI performs as intended and I can see the interface taking off right away as a replacement for other less pervasive fabrics.

The results look great but I'd be a little more cautious. A lot of the improvement seems to be thread oriented, a lot, and I mean a lot, of those benchmarks take advantage of 8 threads. So when you compare that to a 4 thread system, it's going to own it.

The single thread benchmark however, did show that it does have a nice performance uplift, but I would want to see more.

The Anandtech website seems to have gone down in the past couple of hours. Denial of Service by AMD fanboies???

I love the look of the new pin layout, shame I'll never get to see it really....

Wow. Given the already stellar IPC performance of C2D, that's very impressive. Looks like Intel are repeating their earlier trick of leaking some impressive performance benchmarks early as a way of building hype about the new chips...