Planning On Buying A Nehalem PC For Christmas? Plan For Christmas 2009.

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San Francisco (CA) - News about the much anticipated Nehalem processor architecture coming out of this year's IDF Fall are not quite as comprehensive as expected and given the Q4 launch date of the first CPUs, the level of technical provided may be even disappointing for some.

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[cah027]

Intel is messing with us. I don't like it. Not I have to re-think everything on my next build.

 

[Pei-chen]

^No kidding, I was planning to get a Nehalem setup + a 4850 this christmas. Looks like I have to wait or just grab a C2D.

 

[eklipz330]

good thing i 'screwed' up my purchase =D

e8600 ftw? for 9 months? >.> maybe ill sell my computer

 

[jaragon13]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]good thing i 'screwed' up my purchase =De8600 ftw? for 9 months? >.> maybe ill sell my computer[/citation]
Sounds like a bad choice,E8400 could easily overclock to that level,and a Q6600 has more value per dollar,except it takes up more power and produces more heat when all cores are being used..but,that's not likely because there's no games that use 4 cores -_-

 

[Iscabis]

There are a few out right now that do. I know the UT3 uses all four extensively (as in 50-80% used most of the time), but I am not sure how many other Unreal Engine 3 games do the same. No other games come close to that level of usage though. Maybe some day they will.

 

[Xempler]

So wait, Nehalem is not being released in Oct'08???

NOOOO! I waited 6 months already for it. Crap, now I have to build my system with a Q9550...at least it went down in price.