Latest Core i7 release date info

[WaitingForNehalem]

I also find it odd. It is supposed to come out in a month or two and we don't have a release date on it. I was hoping for any kind of information on the release date whether it's official or not.

 

[Tempered81]

i'd say you'll have one in your hands within the next 45 days. I did this when the E8400 C0 was to be officially released Jan. 20th 2008. I had a big thread going in the hotdeals section and found people shipping it on the night of the 13th of January. People were playing with and overclocking them over that weekend of the 18/19th.

You'll see your beloved nehalem in 45 days or less, IMO.

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
I could care less about which motherboard I use since I don't overclock. I hope Fry's has their mobo/cpu combo for Core i7 soon.

a few guys over at XS said that they expect the NDA to be lifted in October, but what's funny is that the date for lifting the NDA on the release date is still NDA :laugh:


welcome to the world of NDA


by the way, new 3.2GHz cache & memory benchmarks:

http://img.inpai.com.cn/articl...-9fa9-ca5a3b6ea130.jpg

scores look good. really good.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
i'd say you'll have one in your hands within the next 45 days. I did this when the E8400 C0 was to be officially released Jan. 20th 2008. I had a big thread going in the hotdeals section and found people shipping it on the night of the 13th of January. People were playing with and overclocking them over that weekend of the 18/19th.

You'll see your beloved nehalem in 45 days or less, IMO.

I will make passionate love to it. :laugh:

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
I could care less about which motherboard I use since I don't overclock. I hope Fry's has their mobo/cpu combo for Core i7 soon.

a few guys over at XS said that they expect the NDA to be lifted in October, but what's funny is that the date for lifting the NDA on the release date is still NDA :laugh:


welcome to the world of NDA

So when is the NDA for release gonna be lifted? Are they just gonna introduce it all of the sudden with no announcement?

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Are they just gonna introduce it all of the sudden with no announcement?

Formally that is how it's done. They never pre-announce or pre-release.

Things get leaked because retailers start getting stock inhouse ahead of the release date of course, so eventually some inventory guy working at Fry's starts talking to his buddies on a forum and then most people who care to know end up knowing when the official release date is going to be.

This is why the lift-date for NDA's are under NDA, as knowing the lift-date for the NDA is tantamount to telling you the release date (which is under NDA) so the NDA expiration date is a secret too.

But if you are looking for Intel to tell Anand to tell us loyal readers that Nehalem is going to be released on Nov 10 then you will be dissapointed.

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
Are they just gonna introduce it all of the sudden with no announcement?

Formally that is how it's done. They never pre-announce or pre-release.

Things get leaked because retailers start getting stock inhouse ahead of the release date of course, so eventually some inventory guy working at Fry's starts talking to his buddies on a forum and then most people who care to know end up knowing when the official release date is going to be.

This is why the lift-date for NDA's are under NDA, as knowing the lift-date for the NDA is tantamount to telling you the release date (which is under NDA) so the NDA expiration date is a secret too.

But if you are looking for Intel to tell Anand to tell us loyal readers that Nehalem is going to be released on Nov 10 then you will be dissapointed.

QFT.

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
So when is the NDA for release gonna be lifted? Are they just gonna introduce it all of the sudden with no announcement?

just like any other news out there, yup, pretty much.

The NDA "lift" on the first Penryn (QX9650) was around October 28, 2007 while the release date was November 12, 2007.

 

[bryanW1995]

I find it odd that they released penryn with just QX9650, but they're rolling out nehalem with a couple of bridesmaids. This seems very odd to me, hopefully it's b/c amd is going to be a little bit more competitive than most of us think.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

This guy that has an engineering sample posts October as the release date.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...?p=3311004#post3311004

 

[OBLAMA2009]

yeah frys is the best. i just got the 8400 combo and am wondering if i should get the 8500 for 30 more. i probably wont, ill just get it in addition when it drops later

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
I find it odd that they released penryn with just QX9650, but they're rolling out nehalem with a couple of bridesmaids. This seems very odd to me, hopefully it's b/c amd is going to be a little bit more competitive than most of us think.

This part is easy - its the supply chain that drove this requirement.

Mobo makers aren't going to create x58 boards to be sold to the exclusive few who will buy $1k i7 965's.

Intel had to sweeten the deal, i.e. convince the mob makers that there would be volume buyers out there for Bloomfield and that requires sub-$500 Nehalems at launch.

QX9650 was different because a mobo manufactured to support QX9650 could be sold to a E8400 customer just as easily.

Asus, Gigabyte, DFI...they all got a limited consumer market (volume wise) for their X58 Nehalem mobo's this fall and you can bet they required Intel do something to at least give them confidence they have a shot at selling enough motherboards to recoup their costs.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
This guy that has an engineering sample posts October as the release date.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...?p=3311004#post3311004

I thought those landing pads on the top surface (IHS side) were supposed to be absent from retail samples.

More ES's?

http://img149.imageshack.us/my...?image=image002cd6.jpg

Also in the same post in which that guy states release date (month really) is oct 2008 he also says that DDR3-1333 is supported, which is in contradiction to a lot of fud/inquirer style articles lately.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: WaitingForNehalem
This guy that has an engineering sample posts October as the release date.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...?p=3311004#post3311004

I thought those landing pads on the top surface (IHS side) were supposed to be absent from retail samples.

More ES's?

http://img149.imageshack.us/my...?image=image002cd6.jpg

Also in the same post in which that guy states release date (month really) is oct 2008 he also says that DDR3-1333 is supported, which is in contradiction to a lot of fud/inquirer style articles lately.

IDC those are ES's LOL.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
I find it odd that they released penryn with just QX9650, but they're rolling out nehalem with a couple of bridesmaids. This seems very odd to me, hopefully it's b/c amd is going to be a little bit more competitive than most of us think.

This part is easy - its the supply chain that drove this requirement.

Mobo makers aren't going to create x58 boards to be sold to the exclusive few who will buy $1k i7 965's.

Intel had to sweeten the deal, i.e. convince the mob makers that there would be volume buyers out there for Bloomfield and that requires sub-$500 Nehalems at launch.

QX9650 was different because a mobo manufactured to support QX9650 could be sold to a E8400 customer just as easily.

Asus, Gigabyte, DFI...they all got a limited consumer market (volume wise) for their X58 Nehalem mobo's this fall and you can bet they required Intel do something to at least give them confidence they have a shot at selling enough motherboards to recoup their costs.

sounds good to me! I think I see a nehalem in my very near future...

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I thought those landing pads on the top surface (IHS side) were supposed to be absent from retail samples.

More ES's?

http://img149.imageshack.us/my...?image=image002cd6.jpg

He didn't blur out the codes? Uh-oh.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: Idontcare
I thought those landing pads on the top surface (IHS side) were supposed to be absent from retail samples.

More ES's?

http://img149.imageshack.us/my...?image=image002cd6.jpg

He didn't blur out the codes? Uh-oh.

If what Aigo says is true (and I'm quite sure he would know) then the sucker might actually be so old (stepping-wise) that Intel may just simply not care that some dude on the interwebz is showing naked IHS pics of a year-old stepping.

Random memory - anyone remember that dude who was selling the P4 system for some $10k on EBAY months before the P4 was released? His story was quite the internet sensation for a while. They don't make'm like that any more.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: AuDioFreaK39
The HSF combo looks smaller than the one from my QX9650 though.

It may or may not be the HSF that ships with the retail unit. Also, the ES i7 comes with a piece of paper that states such. Heck I don't even know if all retail units will have HSFs included. I had a few QX9770 chips to play with that were in small retail boxes... with no HSF. If anyone wants to see what I did with those chips, I'll have two of them at Showdown LAN this weekend.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
I find it odd that they released penryn with just QX9650, but they're rolling out nehalem with a couple of bridesmaids. This seems very odd to me, hopefully it's b/c amd is going to be a little bit more competitive than most of us think.

This part is easy - its the supply chain that drove this requirement.

Mobo makers aren't going to create x58 boards to be sold to the exclusive few who will buy $1k i7 965's.

Intel had to sweeten the deal, i.e. convince the mob makers that there would be volume buyers out there for Bloomfield and that requires sub-$500 Nehalems at launch.

QX9650 was different because a mobo manufactured to support QX9650 could be sold to a E8400 customer just as easily.

Asus, Gigabyte, DFI...they all got a limited consumer market (volume wise) for their X58 Nehalem mobo's this fall and you can bet they required Intel do something to at least give them confidence they have a shot at selling enough motherboards to recoup their costs.

I haven't thought of that, very astute observation.

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

so when can we expect an NDA lift?

metro.cl from XS says:

Around the 3rd of november

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...3314784&postcount=1312




and just a random comment..

I really hope Westmere's high-end models are named Core i337

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
But if you are looking for Intel to tell Anand to tell us loyal readers that Nehalem is going to be released on Nov 10 then you will be dissapointed.

Well we are finally seeing the FUDzilla type articles now on i7 launch date:

The launch should take a place between 10th and 14th of November and we've learned that the Japanese part of Intel might get a green light to start selling its units a bit earlier.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....=view&id=9632&Itemid=1

 

[AuDioFreaK39]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: Idontcare
But if you are looking for Intel to tell Anand to tell us loyal readers that Nehalem is going to be released on Nov 10 then you will be dissapointed.

Well we are finally seeing the FUDzilla type articles now on i7 launch date:

The launch should take a place between 10th and 14th of November and we've learned that the Japanese part of Intel might get a green light to start selling its units a bit earlier.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index....=view&id=9632&Itemid=1

I'll speak with Fudo about this. Afterall, he gave me his business card

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Man, I was hoping it would come out in October. Although it's just a speculation. MSI is going to release three types of motherboards: Performance, Enthusiast and Overclocking.

3 MSI motherboards

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

X-bit says X58 motherboards are coming out in October.

Link

 

[taltamir]

ugh... too many boards, they should just make one board with a better bios. making a million slightly different versions isn't all that good.

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Originally posted by: taltamir
ugh... too many boards, they should just make one board with a better bios. making a million slightly different versions isn't all that good.

Why not? I need a Performance board with 2 PCI-E and don't care how it overclocks.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: taltamir
ugh... too many boards, they should just make one board with a better bios. making a million slightly different versions isn't all that good.

I don't know if there is such a thing as Marketing 101 in college but it seems like this would be one of those introductory marketing aspects that gets drilled into many a marketing (i.e. communications) student...minimum product segmentation is three.

Three kinds of gasoline (regular, plus, supreme), three kinds of desktop computing segments (value, mainstream, performance), etc.

Maybe its just a matter of three being as high as they can count? (rimshot!...ok enough with the cheap shots at the students I envied for being able to get wasted every night of the week while us engineers had to wait till Friday...)

But as far as having millions of different versions...yeah, we wouldn't want MSI trying to steal Gigabyte's thunder from them now would we :laugh: (how many freaking DS3 and DS4 versions are there!?)