[Kal-EL]

Who's planning on running on this platform?????
ANyBodY?

[Ol'Bud]

I'm going to stick with what I have,
AMD only.

[Kal-EL]

Hardcore AMD in the house

[Buckeye]

I have a setup


But I am really liking AMD these days

[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by Buckeye

I have a setup


But I am really liking AMD these days

Any cold bug problems?

[Buckeye]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Any cold bug problems?

Did you read my review ?

Core I5 750 cold bugged in the -50c to -60c range.

AMD... no such thing

[Ol'Bud]

I just deleted an Email from Legitreviews and didnot save the link.
It should be on the front page.
It's all about their own test just done on the new Nehalem based processor.
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I went and got it for you all.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1060/1/

[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by Buckeye

Did you read my review ?

Core I5 750 cold bugged in the -50c to -60c range.

AMD... no such thing

Nope Bill, I read it, I just have old mans desease and like to spur discussion when I get the chance.

[Buckeye]

haha np Kal, I was in a strange mood last night

As far as benching goes... the 750 is cheap enough to get one to just make point runs if you are planing to get the other 2 chips then why not. The 870 and the other are not that bad of chips from what I have been seeing, a little pricey tho imo.

After being burnt on the X58 chips with D0 steppings that came out way to soon making my first investments worthless I would wait around around a bit to see if new steppings will be coming out. They may not tho as they have learned from the X58 production runs and can apply that to these new chips right out of the gate, at least I think so.

You can save some cash by using your RAM from your X58 boards - one stick of course.

Again I am seeing stuff about Intel dropping the 920 line which is dumb imo.

Again I would wait a bit and let everything settle down and see what is a good setup and what is not if you only plan on getting one.

But all of you crazy benchers will most likely jump on this and go for point runs which is fine. After all that is done these chips/MB's can be retired for main rigs or other such setups or sold off for bigger better things.

I think its a pretty good platform as platforms go,, the CB issues I had with mine put a damper on any extreme runs and hat is sounding some what common from what I am reading, but it could just be these ES chips.

5.0ghz and a bit more seem to be the top end of clocks so far which is ok.

So again if your all into getting these for HWBOT runs then why not. Keep your GPUs for 3D runs on your Classified setups and you will get better numbers off of those I think.

Have fun with it

[Kal-EL]

Speaking to this platform, the i5 cpu(s) don't have the hyper threading while the i7 versions do. They both use the turbo, upclocking Intel Feature just fine. Minus the northbridge and the coupling of a pci controller on the chip, it seems 3x sli and such are not possible. It'll handle a full 16x lane of data but no more. Not like you'd max out that 16x lane with 2 current gen cards but who knows.

The memory bandwidth, even with the enormous mem speeds being seen, doesn't seem to trump the 1366 i7's at stock speeds. I haven't seen any overclock for overclock comparisons to make a judgement on it either. I'm very curious.

I'm also curious on the smoothness of game titles with this processor and platform. I know AMD gaming rigs are pretty much VERY smooth.

If I've hit any wrong points, fire back cuz I'd like to get a better understanding of this on chip mem controller and pci controller business. That and how an nf200 chip plays into the mix.