Headlines - Intel's 2.66GHz Nehalem chip to target the mainstream at $284?

[Pablo1870]

Originally Posted by kalniel

And One Hundred Million Dollars for the motherboard to run it

And another three for the DDR3!

[cl0ck_ed]

dout we'll see any improovement in performace. As the current c2d oc so well. Even though the Nehalem are better clock for clock. 2.66ghz doesn't compare with 4ghz. The new chips prob be even more sensitive to voltage as well.

Be careful chaps.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Originally Posted by cl0ck_ed

dout we'll see any improovement in performace. As the current c2d oc so well. Even though the Nehalem are better clock for clock. 2.66ghz doesn't compare with 4ghz. The new chips prob be even more sensitive to voltage as well.

Be careful chaps.

more GHZ doesnt mean faster in that case, my p4 at 3.2ghz can beat a core 2 quad core at 2.4ghz

dont forget nehalem is a brand new architecture

[Lanky123]

Some reports suggest Nehalem overclocks well anyway:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/int...lock,5573.html

Naturally you take anything saying 'heavily overclocked but we're not telling you how much' with several handfuls of salt but it cant be bad news, especially since it might still get better with newer revisions etc.