AJLynn Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 It looks like they'll be here in 4 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted March 3, 2009 Share Posted March 3, 2009 On a mac! Groan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 3, 2009 Author Share Posted March 3, 2009 Cheer up, now you have an excuse to upgrade to a real OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmdr Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Don't know if this is what you're looking for - but they're pretty "close" to release - (scroll down) http://planet64bit.de/node?page=2 Tyan has a board or two and . . . (I need to find link again) and . . . Asus is here http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,677813/16-virtual-cores-in-a-desktop-PC-Asus-presents-ATX-motherboard-with-two-sockets-1366/News/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 Is the Nehalem the same as the i7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 Nehalem is i7. The Xeon version is what's new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 And they are 8 core not 4, that's amazing I've got to get one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOXXLABS Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 "Nahalem" is the internal codename used to for the intel microarchitecture that includes both "Core i7" and Xeon 3500/5500 CPUs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOXXLABS Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 And they are 8 core not 4, that's amazing I've got to get one! They are not 8-core. They are, indeed, still quad-core chips. What is new is the return of "Hyperthreading" technology - which allows each core to process two "threads" This is NOT the same as having 8 separate cores. In the best case scenario, this Hyperthreading feature can only add about 30% more performance for processes such as raytrace rendering and other multithreaded image processing tasks. -Still pretty damn cool though... Adam BOXXlabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 5, 2009 Author Share Posted March 5, 2009 ...and when it comes to 8 real cores (on a 2x quad core system) vs 16 logical cores using HT... the software better be damn good at multithreading or the returns are going to diminish pretty quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 this might shed some light on the HT performance during rendering: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/ci7-turbo-ht-p1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slinger Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 The only thing the Xeon flavor i7 will do is be able to run as an SMP set-up aka Dual processor system. So you can have 8 physical cores and 16 virtual cores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slinger Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Cheer up, now you have an excuse to upgrade to a real OS.fanboy much. I would rather wait for a real motherboard aka http://www.computerbase.de/news/hardware/mainboards/intel-systeme/2009/maerz/mainboard_mal_pcie_x16_asus/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Is anyone using a Mac, 3D Studio, and Vray together on a Windows network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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