Flyby Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 check out this article over at TechReport. It talks about Nvidia being nice to the X58 chipset, and enabling SLi mode in the bios without using the N200 chipset. INterersting, especially with thhe price drops of the GTX280 recently. Hope you find it useful!:thumbup: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15405 Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry:
Pilotasso Posted August 28, 2008 Posted August 28, 2008 I posted thread about nehalem a few days ago, explaining there wont be any maisntream CPU's for another year, so you got some time. :) .
GTengineer Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 I posted thread about nehalem a few days ago, explaining there wont be any maisntream CPU's for another year, so you got some time. :) agreed, plus the greatest benefits of Nehalen over Penryn will be seen in multi-threaded apps. What I am most excited about this Nehalen release is the prospect that hopefully the prices of existing Penryn (which overclock insanely) will continue to come down. I am drooling over getting an E8600 and overclocking it to near 5GHz. :D Q6600 @ 3.8GHz, 8GB DDR2-1000, 8800GT 512MB, Vista x64, TrackIR4
Flyby Posted August 31, 2008 Author Posted August 31, 2008 Nehalem for gaming? I'll try to locate the source, but I've read that the Nehalem won't be that big of a deal for gaming. It will be a big hit for apps that thrive on multi-cores. Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry:
Flyby Posted August 31, 2008 Author Posted August 31, 2008 re:me on Nehalem not really for gaming OK I found the source: Anandtech wrote the article. Here's the link. Draw your own conclusions. http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=480 But I guess it's better to wait and see factual results of gaming on a Nehalem/X58 system. Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry:
chaos Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 Nehalem won't matter much if you play games that are limited by the graphics subsystem. I do believe it (Nehalem) will benefit flight simulation games like DCS:BS because of the rel. high stresses placed on the CPU. "It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage..."
Flyby Posted September 1, 2008 Author Posted September 1, 2008 Nehalem won't matter much if you play games that are limited by the graphics subsystem. I do believe it (Nehalem) will benefit flight simulation games like DCS:BS because of the rel. high stresses placed on the CPU. I'm not so sure Black Shark will be GPU-limited, but more likely cpu-limited because of AI and many objects. New GPUs on the market may actually handle BS quite nicely. I didn't get from reading the linked article that Nehalem would be a serious frames-per-second increase over the Penryn for simmers. Not right away anyway. Something about cache levels and such. The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry:
Flyby Posted September 1, 2008 Author Posted September 1, 2008 let me be clear... Thats what he said. :) sorry for the political verbage, but what I mean to say is that I don't believe Nehalem will be a very good upgrade for gamers. It really remains to be seen, but the linked article is not the only one discussing Nehalem's minor step in improving pc games. I searched for "Nehalem for pc gaming" and received a couple of hits. The initial processors seems to be more for servers, and IT functions, if the article is to be believed. Also let me say , after reading lots of reviews about the newer video cards, that having at least a dual core processor clocked at over 3.2ghz seems to reduce the cpu choke point. Hard OCP (for instance) during GPU testing typically clocks it's q9xxx processor to 3,6ghz, stating it's intent to insure the cpu is not a bottleneck. Anyway, until someone actually tests a Nehalem in gaming the jury is still out on how it will perform. But early info seems to indicate it may not be the wonder processor gamers want. Flyby out The U.S. Congress is the best governing body that BIG money can buy. :cry:
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