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Nehalem Part 3: The Cache Debate, LGA-1156 and the 32nm Future
Nehalem Part 3: The Cache Debate, LGA-1156 and the 32nm Future
Another Part? Oh there will be more In an unexpected turn of events I found myself deep in conversation with many Intel engineers as well as Pat Gelsinger himself about the design choices made in Nehalem. At the same time, Intel just released its 2009 roadmap which outlined some of the lesser ...
Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition Processor
Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition Processor
benchmarkreviews.com — Fear not my enthusiast brethren, in our second publication we will be covering all that you asked... for and more as we review the Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition (XE). We have now had sufficient time to spend with Core i7 series and our knowledge base ... (more) Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition Processor
Intel Core i7 listings show up on NewEgg to tease you, then split
Intel Core i7 listings show up on NewEgg to tease you, then split
engadget.com — Filed under: Desktops Listings for Intel's new Core i7 processors popped up on NewEgg for a couple... hours yesterday before getting pulled back into the pre-launch ether -- a cruel tease to desktop PC hardware aficionados counting down the ... (more) Intel Core i7 listings show up on NewEgg to tease you, ...
First look: Intel dual- socket Nehalem EP benchmarked | News | TechRadar UK
techradar.com — Intel's new Nehalem-based Core i7 desktop processor is nippy. And now we can exclusively reveal that the... upcoming dual-socket server variant of the Nehalem architecture is so fast it's almost silly. We know this because we're the first in the world to ... (more) First look: Intel dual- socket Nehalem EP benchmarked | ...
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Nehalem Part 3: The Cache Debate, LGA-1156 and the 32nm Future
Madshrimps News RSS Feed — ... In an unexpected turn of events I found myself deep in conversation with many Intel engineers as well as Pat Gelsinger himself about the design choices made in Nehalem. At the same time, Intel just released its 2009 roadmap which outlined some of the lesser known details of the mainstream LGA-1156 Nehalem derivatives. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3461 ...

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The Tech Report: News — ... the flood, and warhog jugging GamersHell has Call of Duty: World at War mod tools LittleBigPlanet 1.04 patch live PC Magazine goes 100% digital Gamasutra reports Ziff Davis CEO considering shuttering print version of EGM Systems and multimedia HotHardware has AMD Maui home theater PC - video spotlight HardwareZone on Toshiba Port g ultra portables: high in the sky ITreviewed on Asus Eee PC S101 AnandTech has Nehalem part 3 : the cache debate, LGA-1156, and the 32nm future PCStats reviews MSI K9A2 ...

Intel Nehalem cache debate, and future
DV Hardware — Anand Lal Shimpi from AnandTech discusses the cache of the Nehalem, the mainstream LGA1156 processors and the 32nm future processors from Intel. Now we’ve got an exponential growth of cache size, not linear, and all of the sudden the Core i7 conforms to societal norms. To understand why, we have to look at what happened ...

The Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720: AMD Gets DDR3 But Doesn't Need It
AnandTech Article Channel — ... . With a 6MB L3 the 900 series seemed like a good balance between L2 and L3 cache size, but going any smaller than 6MB could prove to be overly detrimental to performance. Also keep in mind that Intel's Ronak Singhal was adament that Nehalem shouldn't have any less than an 8MB L3 (or 2MB per core), even the mainstream Core i7 derivatives are slated to have 2MB of L3 cache per core (4MB for the dual-core versions). [image] A Phenom II X4 900 series die: 258mm 2 , 4-cores and a 6MB L3 cache The 800 series is simply an example of ...

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