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4Ghz Penryn SKU

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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Does anyone want to speculate whether or not we will ever see an official 4Ghz SKU out of Intel for Penryn chips? Clearly, many E0-stepping chips will do 4Ghz today when overclocked. I'm just curious whether Intel will continue to release faster Penryn SKUs, while attempting to push Nehalem quad-cores, or whether Penryn will be EOLed when Nehalem becomes mainstream. Would you rather have a 4Ghz E0, or a 3.0Ghz dual-core Nehalem when they are released?
 
I say no, as all these 4 ghz are with volts way over stock, and aftermarket coolers. It would have to do 4 ghz@stock vcore and on a stock cooler. too far away from that now.
 
Xeon is getting a 3.5ghz dual core Penryn, X54XX something or other in November. Not desktop compatable I dont think....there was an article on it somewhere.
 
that depends how impressive the next AMD chip is 🙂

If deneb annihilates nahalem (laughable prospect), then we can expect intel to sell 4ghz chips.
 
Originally posted by: Markfw900
I say no, as all these 4 ghz are with volts way over stock, and aftermarket coolers. It would have to do 4 ghz@stock vcore and on a stock cooler. too far away from that now.
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This is your answer Larry.

Now were you asking whether or not we might see a QX9850 (3.4GHz) or a QX9950 (3.6GHz) then I'd say it is possible but improbable as it would require (1) a 4GHz Deneb from AMD to prod Intel into releasing what would most assuredly be a 150W TDP SKU, and simultaneously (2) an inexplicable clockspeed issue with Nehalem that prevents Nehalem from being clocked high enough such that it's single-threaded performance is trumped by the top clockspeed Deneb at the time.

Did I mention that it wasn't going to happen, I think I did, somewhere in there I'm sure. 😉
 
found this in a post: (speculation):


"Looks like theyre leaving room for for future CPUs. For example:

QX9750: 3.16GHz
QX9850: 3.33GHz
QX9950: 3.5GHz

E8600: 3.33GHz
E8700: 3.5GHz
E8800: 3.66GHz
E8900: 3.83GHz

Wonder if the rumored 4GHz model will be something like the X8950 or something."

and this...

"sport 6 MB of L2 cache and the only thing separating them is the frequency. Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 runs at 2.66 GHz and then each model bumps the frequency by 166 MHz; to 2.83, 3 GHz and last 3.16 GHz.

As you can tell from the name of the models there is plenty of room for even faster models such as E8600, E8700, E8800, Q9650, Q9750, Q9850, and so forth. Or even more lower end models such as Q9400 or perhaps a Q9500."


I just googled E8700. So maybe we see E8700, E8800, and some 10x & 10.5x 45nm Quads


 
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: Markfw900
I say no, as all these 4 ghz are with volts way over stock, and aftermarket coolers. It would have to do 4 ghz@stock vcore and on a stock cooler. too far away from that now.
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This is your answer Larry.

Now were you asking whether or not we might see a QX9850 (3.4GHz) or a QX9950 (3.6GHz) then I'd say it is possible but improbable as it would require (1) a 4GHz Deneb from AMD to prod Intel into releasing what would most assuredly be a 150W TDP SKU, and simultaneously (2) an inexplicable clockspeed issue with Nehalem that prevents Nehalem from being clocked high enough such that it's single-threaded performance is trumped by the top clockspeed Deneb at the time.

Did I mention that it wasn't going to happen, I think I did, somewhere in there I'm sure. 😉
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Well, obviously Intel would increase the VID somewhat, and package them with bigger coolers, I didn't think that I would have to spell that out for people.
 
see, they MADE the processors, but there is no economical reason to sell them, ever, unless AMD pulls a rabbit out of their hat. it is a contingency.. if AMD does pull a rabbit out, slash prices on old hardware and add those units to the family.

And for those that must have the best, they release a unit slightly higher every now and then (think the E8600, could have EASILY been released earlier.. and only a 0.5 multi increase? and the HUGE price premium over the second highest? they are milking their fans)
 
Its technically possible, but is not feasible in the current marketplace, unless Intel wants to shoot itself in the foot and trump Nehalem with Penryn. LOL, nah, not gonna happen.
 
i dream..

of a X5470 chip thats on LGA775 side.

Basically these super cherry harpers are 2 E8600 on 1 pcb. Absolute monsters when paird with skulltrail. Even more so then there QX9775 cousins, thanks to the E0 revision.

But the chips are SUPER RARE even for harpers you can only dream for them to show up on the LGA775 side.

Bah, im done playing with Yorkies, i have bigger things to sort out now. :T
 
Originally posted by: aigomorla
Bah, im done playing with Yorkies, i have bigger things to sort out now. :T
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You playing with Sandy's Bridge now or still working over Westmere's undercarriage? 😉
 
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