The Real Conroe Successor: Clarkdale & All You Need to Know about Westmere

@marcreichman what's insane is that you can get that much compute in blades now as well

@anshelsag haha yeah, too late, clicked the wrong button :)

Will be doing power and perf comparison between the old and new configs over the coming weeks. For now, it's bedtime

That was high-end back in 2006 - 8 cores in a 4U box, now we have 12 in a 2U box

Finally carried our old DB server up to the lab: four socket, dual-core Opteron 880 based HP ProLiant DL585 http://t.co/ftyi8BPF

@ozym4ndias @wilshipley @pmod not really, not internal at least. here's a hint: http://t.co/iv6wXn7I :)

@RandomMegaBytes the 512GB drive won't actually update to the latest firmware, but the 128/256GB drives are very quick

@pmod IVB gives you the same memory bandwidth as SNB, likely see DDR3-1600 in mobile

@wilshipley @pmod remember with Ivy Bridge TDPs don't actually go down, in 2013 that will change though...

@wilshipley @pmod The Pro won't go away entirely, but we will see a trend towards thinner notebooks in general.

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I'm just incredibly disapointed/bored by this... by Wolfpup on Friday, October 16, 2009

Dual core CPUs in 2010, AFTER we've had quad core for three generations, and even have a fairly reasonably priced Core i7 in NOTEBOOKS now? Boooooring!

Wolfpup

Intel chipset with SATA 6GB and USB 3 support.... by cosminliteanu on Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Hi,
anybody know when Intel will add support for USB 3 and SATA 6 GB? And most important in which chipset/platform will be ?
Thanks.

cosminliteanu

Dear Intel by NeBlackCat on Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Once again AMD will be getting my money as I'm not being forced to buy two motherboards to get the CPU that I want now (Clarkdale) and it's immediate successor.

I'm sure you're gutted.

NeBlackCat

Nice Power Consumption by SFNR1 on Tuesday, September 29, 2009

what PSU was being used?

SFNR1

4 sata ports by IKeelU on Monday, September 28, 2009

I hope that mini-ITX is < 100$. I'll finally be able to upgrade from my existing atom board and its measly 2 SATA ports.

IKeelU

RE: 4 sata ports by cjs150 on Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Exactly. Personally I am excited by this. I need to build a couple of things for the home network

1. HTPC - this needs to be very very quiet. This new CPU and Mini ITX board looks spot on if (and it is a big if) Intel actually delivers on HD acceleration for both video and audio

2. Small home server to replace the ancient thing currently flogging its guts out. This looks close - low power is good but I have two big requirements. (a) standard PCI slot for my RAID card which is an 8 port SATA raid card (Broadcomm) which just works exactly as it should. (b) with all the HD streams 2 xGb ethernet ports would be nice to allow for future expansion (and yes I know it is overkill). Looks like the current minim-itx board fails on both

cjs150

RE: 4 sata ports by CrimsonFury on Thursday, October 08, 2009

An 8 port SATA controller is very limited via standard PCI.

Even a PCI-E x1 slot would double the bandwidth (x4 or or x8 would be better)

Just use one of the mini-ITX boards that has a PCI-E x16 slot and check a PCI-E sata controller in there.

CrimsonFury

Okay, I have to get this off my chest by Holy Smoke on Saturday, September 26, 2009

Am I the only one who finds the tock-tick thingy retarded?

It's the wrong sequence, dammit! It's like an army going 3-4-1-2 fer chrissakes!

Holy Smoke

RE: Okay, I have to get this off my chest by 2good2btrue on Monday, September 28, 2009

Okay, how is this the wrong sequence?

They optimize the circuit design, from a known good/working design, then they optimize it at the smallest current size possible.

How is this retarded?

2good2btrue

RE: Okay, I have to get this off my chest by strikeback03 on Monday, September 28, 2009

I'd guess he is arguing that the tick should be the new microarchitecture, and the tock should be the shrink of that.

strikeback03

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