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Yeah Intel is gonna take a break this cycle from being the industry leading gaming CPU. Afterall we need all this extra performance for Word documents.
The C2D wasn't designed for gaming neccessarily either was it? It just turned out that it had enough raw power to really push games. Once more games come out that take advantage of multiple cores is when you will start to see huge gains. Truth is that games could be much more complex than they are now. Game devs just need to push current technologies harder. I believe that once Nehalem is finally close to release and drivers come out that fully support the Nehalem's advanced architecture you will be blown away with the performance. From a bandwidth perspective the i7 will be just incredible.
I know you're being sarcastic, but the funneh thing is that Intel will be releasing a batch of gaming CPU's based on the Nehalem architecture that will actually include additional cores based on the Larrabee tech. I dunno how excited I am about this cause all I see it doing is helping give SFF PC's beefier graphics without having to cram some huge hulking graphics card in there. I don't see this being huge in the normal PC market though.
We'll see. The reason I doubt that AMD has anything ground breaking is because I have not heard of anything coming. If AMD had something that could even match the Nehalem we would already be hearing about it. AMD would try to hurt the launch of Intel's next badboy by releasing or leaking info about new tech coming down the pipes. So far all I have seen is this whole "Fusion" software thing. Other than that I see nothing to make me think AMD has some monster CPU coming.
Well compared to the setup in my sig my i7 based system will pretty much rape it. I am sure it will be like night and day.
Did you read my sig?
I was saying that my sig rig is pretty bad compared to what the i7 is going to be. The difference should be huge. Now your machine is much better than mine. There would be much less of a difference in performance going from your machine to an i7. That is what I am saying. My e-peen is very small at the moment. I will be building a brand new machine when the i7's become available. That is all I am saying.
Hopefully. They were supposed to be released at the end of September, but that ain't happening. They pushed it back to November last I heard.
Yeah I have read the article and others that have said that Nehalem's are not going to be some huge jump in performance for games. I knew that much already. Bigger jumps need to be made on the GPU end before huge jumps need to be made on the CPU end. That said however the i7's will not be slower than current super high end QX machines in games. They will absolutely be better. Not by much maybe in current games, but newer and future games they will be for sure. All the articles make mention of this. I just need a nice new machine cause I still haven't made the jump to a quad core machine and I deal with alot of HD video editing/encoding. It would be nice to have a giant jump in performance from that perspective. I figured why screw up my upgrade path by choosing another s775 machine when I could move to an LGA1366 machine and open up my upgrade options. The cost doesn't seem too great to get into an i7 machine. Especially not when the slowest i7 will outperform the fastest QX you can currently buy.
Well the numbers for certain apps (not games) could be anywhere from 50-80%. For video crunching for instance the gains could be in that 50-80% range for sure. That is what I am excited about. Multi-threaded apps are going to be the ones that have the best gains. But for games that are still coded primarily toward single threads there will not be huge leaps.
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