Nehalem to support only DDR3 800 and DDR3 1066

[Acanthus]

Memory speed hasnt dramatically helped performance for quite a while now.

Although Nehalem could be a different animal.

 

[nyker96]

memory and cpu voltage synchronously!? that's crazy. But then again, it's fuzilla report not sure how much it can be believed. we'll wait and see.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Well, this was an interesting thread as I read through it.

Whatever "standing" I have among my friends here, I'm not sure when I'm going to jump into the next generation.

I've been calculating in my caution -- surfing the last wave of Intel dual-core and DDR2. I ignored Pentium D Smithfields and Preslers; I might even have waited for Wolfdale and Yorkfield, but the wave was cresting and I started to paddle with Conroe.

My senior colleague in my former work-life had a small fleet of used Beamer 325i's, and I had a small fleet of used Honda Civics and Accords. We never bought new cars. My more experienced and older friend used to say: "Never buy a new car in the year it is introduced; wait another year or two until the bugs are ironed out."

But we all have "hotdawg-fever" here at Anandtech.

I guess we're going to find out how Nehalem shakes out. But I'm going to be watching benchtest reviews for a while. For a while . . .

+1

I may not even BUY anything in the Nehalem generation. I'm just about to button up my "new" build (that I've been refining and judiciously upgrading since January) and, knock on wood, my freshly stabilized 4.05 GHz E8600 system is gonna have to hold me for a long time, at least a couple years. This thing is a beast.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
That brings up the question - if 45nm transistors can only handle 1.45v max or whatever, and DDR3 runs at 1.5v, and OCed DDR3 will run higher, then how does that work?

Well, I don't have a Nehalem, nor do I have any experience burning out the IMC in one, but with the Athlon 64's (all of the ones that used first generation DDR), there was a safe limit that you could give your RAM, without burning out the IMC. The guys over at XS figured out that you could give your RAM 2x your vCore with complete immunity, although hardly any were failing until 2x Vcore + .3 or .4 volts. And since we haven't heard of anyone burning out their IMC in any of the A64's since they transitioned to DDR2, I think it's a non-issue these days, and would obviously be even less with DDR3. That's my take on it, anyway.

 

[aigomorla]

can i just reply with a

PUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
can i just reply with a

PUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Sorry, no you can't , new forum rulez - no rofling from anyone who doesn't have at least a gainestown setup at home now . The 3.2GHz bloomies are too common now for us to just allow anyone who has one to squash unsubstantiated rumors about i7. Where's the mystery and intrigue when folks actually know the answer?

We demand more intrigue, more rumor, less factual results from the folks who own the hardware. :Q Come back when you can tell us what Beckton is like. :shocked:

 

[Quiksilver]

Kicking this thread for: Same basic information, sync'd memory and cpu voltages which could limit overclocks, etc, etc but with more speculation.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,8118.html

 

[savvy]

This deserves a "lolno."

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
It's not true. The Gigabyte mobo has DDR3-1900 written on it.

Are you gonna change your sig name once Nehalem comes out? I think you should

 

[eternalone]

This next generation of Cpu's will be intresting to watch cant wait.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: thilan29

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
It's not true. The Gigabyte mobo has DDR3-1900 written on it.

Are you gonna change your sig name once Nehalem comes out? I think you should

It's gonna be changed to "gaveupwaitingsoboughtyorkfield"

 

[thilanliyan]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: thilan29

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
It's not true. The Gigabyte mobo has DDR3-1900 written on it.

Are you gonna change your sig name once Nehalem comes out? I think you should

It's gonna be changed to "gaveupwaitingsoboughtyorkfield"

Lol. :laugh: