V8 Preview at DriverHeaven

[Idontcare]

V8 Preview at DriverHeaven

Reads like a big long commercial...but has lots of benchies in it. Enough to make sugar plumbs dance in my head for the night anyways

 

[DarkManX4lf]

That machine will keep my room nice and warm during the winter.

 

[Zenoth]

Jesus Christ ... that thing is breathing fire and evil. Couple that thing with a G80 SLi setup or an R600 Crossfire setup and you're good to go for the next five years if your house doesn't burn in the meantime. I bet the lights dim out when you power up that machine.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
Jesus Christ ... that thing is breathing fire and evil. Couple that thing with a G80 SLi setup or an R600 Crossfire setup and you're good to go for the next five years if your house doesn't burn in the meantime. I bet the lights dim out when you power up that machine.

Or it powers down the entire suburb (except your house) when you turn it on.

 

[lopri]

Can't say anything other than that it's an Intel's version of 4x4. In almost every sense. There are a few differences, though:

1. Performance is top notch. It scales better than dual to quad, thanks to dual FSB.
2. But it really serves no one but the normal dual socket users. (workstation folks) At least AMD let you use unbuffered DDR2, but for this V8 system you need at least 4 sticks of FB-DIMMs to make it work the way it's meant to do.

I think it'll be as much popular as 4x4. :laugh:

 

[Nathelion]

Yeah no one's ever gonna buy this thing. But it's still cool

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Nathelion
Yeah no one's ever gonna buy this thing. But it's still cool

Not sure about that, are people buying the Mac Pro?

 

[nyker96]

I like their title:
Every Enthusiast's 127.0.0.1 Since May 2002

 

[aka1nas]

That's pretty pointless if it doesn't have multiple X16 slots. It needs FB-Dimms too. At least 4x4 had a gimmick in that you could potentially run 4 cards on it and it ran unbuffered RAM. This V8 setup doesn't let you do anything that you can't already do with a regular Dual Xeon board. It also has all the disadvantages of slow,expensive FB-Dimm RAM.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Is it me or the quad FX setup draws similiar power consumptions?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Is it me or the quad FX setup draws similiar power consumptions?

For whatever it was worth in terms of the article's authors idea of "max load"...yes it appears you could put 8 Core2 cores to work for you at the same electricity bill as putting 4 Athlon64 cores to work for you.

I personally found that to be eye-opening because the chips are both 65nm, both clocked at 3GHz but AMD's chips are SOI (supposed to give some power savings).

I don't care much for the idea of running FB-DIMMS...but on the other hand if I am going to pack more than 4 GB of ram into a computer then I realize about the only thing I'd do with it is turn it into a ramdrive and run my HDD-access intensive programs from the ramdisk.

In which case FB-DIMM latency and performance kind of don't matter too much relative to HDD latency for that purpose.

EDIT: ha ha, I suck, did a quick check on FX-74 and realized it is 90nm NOT 65nm...totally explains the 2:1 power consumption then. LegitReviews article on AMD's 4x4

 

[Nemesis 1]

First thing you guys have to remember is V8 is nothing more than a concept.

The Up and coming Skulltrail M/B is the one for us enthusisist. Dual socket /Dual FSB / SLI & XF ready/DDR3 1600 FSB . So no it won't use FBdimms or a 771 socket.