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Core i9 Gulftown release date?

GLSauron said:
I'll ignore the 2.4Ghz thing, because while thats what samples are being sent out at, nobody, even Intel, knows what the final clocks will be.

As to the OCing thing, to a degree. For pure potential, the duals might have the speed, but they are on the s1156 platform, leaving them with the same PCI-E issues as lynnfields are seeing. Also, to a lot of people dual cores just aren't enough anymore, leaving the 32nm field open to gulftown or nothing.

I don't particularly like the socket split, but unlike many people I understand the reasons behind it. For sure, some of the consequences do just plain suck.
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Early samples are often clocked much lower than the actual retail CPUs are. The final round of engineering samples will be more representative of the final retail product. In any case with clock speeds approaching 4.6GHz on air I don't see why Intel wouldn't release 3.2GHz or 3.33GHz versions of Gulftown unless the power consumption was just out of hand at those clock speeds. (Which I don't believe this to be the case at all.)
 
And the answer is still "no".
Intel will be capacity limited on 32nm at D1C until the 2nd/3rd production fabs (32 and 11X) come online next year. They'll come online and go straight to adding capacity for xeons and then sandy bridge chips.
PII isn't competitive and the thuban is a desperate attempt to match gulftown until BD can step it up. Theres no reason for Intel to even consider a 32nm quad core on nehalem.

Dan: that was my point. Intel doesn't know the final clock speeds, there's no reason to look at the ES and call them final clock speeds.
 
anyone know what clock speeds Gulftown will ship with?...will it be over 3.0 GHZ?
 
polonyc2 said:
anyone know what clock speeds Gulftown will ship with?...will it be over 3.0 GHZ?
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Nope. Nothing has been officially announced yet as far as I know. Until Intel does announce them we probably won't know for sure.
 
Dan_D said:
Nope. Nothing has been officially announced yet as far as I know. Until Intel does announce them we probably won't know for sure.
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I heard rumors about 2.4-2.6 GHZ...I was hoping for more...the abandoning of higher clock speeds for more cores seems like the wrong thing to do in my opinion
 
polonyc2 said:
I heard rumors about 2.4-2.6 GHZ...I was hoping for more...the abandoning of higher clock speeds for more cores seems like the wrong thing to do in my opinion
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Given what we saw in the Core i9 overclocking thread I don't think the clocks will be that low. I'm betting on 2.93GHz for a stock clock speed.
 
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Dan_D said:
Given what we saw in the Core i8 overclocking thread I don't think the clocks will be that low. I'm betting on 2.93GHz for a stock clock speed.
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Personally Im really *hoping* for a 3.33Ghz base speed, as thatd allow for 5Ghz at 200Mhz bClk (on water, at least, if itd do that).
 
GLSauron said:
Personally Im really *hoping* for a 3.33Ghz base speed, as thatd allow for 5Ghz at 200Mhz bClk (on water, at least, if itd do that).
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Regardless of the stock clocks, there are no guarantees in regard to overclocking headroom.
 
don't know if anyone posted this already but I just saw some benchmarking results of an engineering sample of Gulftown running at 2.4 GHz...honestly seems like overkill for most people but I think I'll buy one when it is released and be set up for the next 3-5 years :D

**you have to keep clicking the 'Next Page' links to view the entire article with all the benchmark numbers

http://translate.google.com/transla...om/3846/page/1&rurl=translate.google.com#view
 
Apple is the first company that will release this monster hexa-core to the market.
 
cdzone said:
Apple is the first company that will release this monster hexa-core to the market.
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Uhhh, whatever. The first people to have actual systems will be system builders and high end boutiques and/or high end OEM systems. Generally Apple doesn't sell that many of these kinds of systems. Definitely not in retail, no one does.
 
Te fastest ontill now is 3.2Ghz gulftown/westmere.

Prestation with Gulftown/westmere on air about 4.5 a 4.6Ghz HT on.
on vapochiller 5.1Ghz HT on and 5.4Ghz HT off.

the colder, more Vcore the faster they go.

Here are some of my scores with Gulftown on Vapochill to give you an idea :

pifast 16.06sec
http://i49.tinypic.com/2n68cue.jpg

superpi1m : 7.750sec
http://i50.tinypic.com/2r6fz1s.jpg

Wprime32m : 3.326sec
http://i49.tinypic.com/160d4y9.jpg

Wprime1024m : 1m46sec
http://i48.tinypic.com/16lir89.jpg
 
I like the idea that the Core i9 hex-cores are going to be compatible with existing 1366 boards. Thus, those with expensive Rampage II Extremes or EVGA Classifieds can use them a bit longer. To the best of my knowledge there won't be new chipsets with new features for these, at least I've not heard anything concrete.
 
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