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Oh man, I am so freaking nostalgic about Nehalem

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Do you remember when Nehalem came out? It was a huge, incredible performance jump. It was crazy. I had bought a complete new system with this chip i7-920 and combined it with an Radeon HD5870. It was Battlefield BC2 and Dirt 2 times, the games were amazing, the weather was amazing and the amount of Frames per Second was amazing too with this setup.

Maybe, because I was much younger, I felt much more pleasure back then. I am not sure.

That CPU can still hold up at 60Hz monitor at 1080p, depending on the game. I am not sure but I believe it outperforms most of the current mobile CPUs out there.

I read somewhere that Intel put lots of R&D money into developing this CPU and less and less over time after it. Maybe that is a total rubbish information. But, anyway, I just can't stop wishing for another Nehalem.

Is it true that Nehalem was the biggest jump ever on mainstream desktop platform? I might wrong. Correct me please.
Do you think we can see another huge jump like Nehalem?
How did you feel about this architecture back then? :)
 
R4k4n0th said:
Is it true that Nehalem was the biggest jump ever on mainstream desktop platform? I might wrong. Correct me please.
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LGA1366/X58 was not a mainstream desktop platform, it was HEDT ;)
 
Not sure if this is for general hardware, but anyway
I remember when Nehalem came out and everyone began bashing AMD and Hector Ruiz
 
Tri ram channelling was a pita
 
Would you consider up to 50% performance in multi tasking a big jump in mainstream CPUs?
Because 8700K does that sometimes compered to 7700K

I can tell you that i owned almost every popular CPU in the past 15 years and i didn't feel like the 920 was that of a huge jump compered to the 4.2Ghz QX9650 i owned.
I feel like the bigger jump was actually between the somewhat slow at stock i5 750 to the almighty i5 2500K. I feel like the clock increases and the IPC improvements sandy bridge brought ware no less dramatic.
 
This is how I felt when we got our Intellivision. Incidentally has anyone seen what these things are selling for nowadays they're like $200 that's ridiculous

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R4k4n0th said:
I read somewhere that Intel put lots of R&D money into developing this CPU and less and less over time after it. Maybe that is a total rubbish information. But, anyway, I just can't stop wishing for another Nehalem.
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Well, really Intel didn't have much competition from AMD even before Nehalem with the Core 2 architecture and until the Ryzen CPUs came they have mostly dominated the CPU market. Intel will probably spend more on R&D until they leap way ahead of AMD again and then they will sit on their thumbs for a few years and let CPU tech stagnate again.
 
jboydgolfer said:
This is how I felt when we got our Intellivision. Incidentally has anyone seen what these things are selling for nowadays they're like $200 that's ridiculous

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I must be getting old LOL.

64K, AMD at the time took a misstep with the Phenom because of the tlb and coldbug issue, Fixed in Phenom II.

Bulldozer was engineered by computer and built by a computer primarily so really not a whole lot of human interaction with the design
 
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X58/nehalem where released 17. November 2008. Yes its has been nine years since intel released X58 and the platform that startet the "Core I" generation over core 2 duo/quad platform. As already stated X58 is a HEDT platform just like X99 and X299 is it.

With that said i have had a very happy relation to X58. First with an I7 920 and a Asus rampage 2 extreme motherboard i had for almost 8 years, before i replaced it with my current I7 980X and AsusP6X58D Premium second gen X58 motherboard at the beginning of this year. For me X58 is a huge jump back then, but i dit come from a very crappy single core AMD Athlon XP 1800+ cpu. So for me the jump is huge. I took the jump to X58 in may 2009.

But one of the bedst part with X58 and its CPU´s, is that they can overclock very high compared to its stock speed. My I7 920 DO revision cut do 4.4 GHz and my current I7 980X can go to 4.77 GHz and properly higher with better cooling.

I7 920 @ 4.3 Ghz. Yes its a little devil (se score).

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I7 980X @ 4.77 GHz

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Long live socket 1366..................:peace:
 
2x 9800GX2s in an EVGA 3x SLI with a Seitek eclipse mirror edition and a thermaltake armor case with the 230mm fan side intake and a sidewinder computers H2O kit nah I dont remember my 920 C0.

anyone who claims the platform sucked is a villian.

6GB of Mushkin ridgeline (blue shield) for triple channel RAM shit yeah.
 
Way ahead of it's time. My roomate bought his i7 920 exactly 9 years ago and he's still running games to this date on high settings with no issues.

He plans on upgrading next year (due to streaming) but even then that's fucking impressive that a CPU can run games on the highest settings almost 10 years after it's released (goes to show that it was ahead of its time for sure).
 
Wait a second....wasnt Nehalem released like 9 years ago? B4 SBridge right?
 
I still use Nehalem (Gulftowns) and everything works just fine - including 0-day games.

I wasn't motivated enough to upgrade because the performance improvement per each generation wasn't that huge and Intel kept changing sockets every, single, year.

Nehalem was huge because of the tight competition with AMD, but in the last decade - ever since AMD dropped the game - Intel was building bridges, lakes and roads :D rather then HEDT CPUs.

Superclocked Gulftown with HT is still capable of running anything you throw at it (except of AVX of course).
 
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A lot of 1366/Nehalem love in here :rockout: I must admit I jumped on the i7 920 bandwagon as well and boy I was not disappointed! it sure was a new platform that was just done right (not looking at you Zen....) however.... nostalgia aside :oops: unfortunately it has had it's time and despite what many say has run it's course, yes there are still a few die hard 1366 fans in here (no names @CAPSLOCKSTUCK ) and I won't disagrree that it can still be relevant in gaming today however, so can the 2500k and the last phenoms (even though nehalem was a much better performing platform) my point is, that whilst you can still run a i7 920/950/960 etc and throw in a high end GPU and of course you can still game. However there is little point in doing that, even if you go by most users reckoning on here that Intel only ever gain 5% IPC per generation, we are still talking 7 generations which equates to a minimum of a 35% performance hit from nahelem to Coffee Lake, so yea, it will still gladly drive your high end GPU to an extent but alas it will do it a lot worse than the last 5 generations of CPU's whilst doing it. Not a bad thing but just being realistic about a iconic CPU, let's not be having the same conversation with a GTX 1480 TI cause that 35% performance difference will then be 50-60% and we may as well be talking about Q9650 and GTX 1080 today... awesome right? :pimp: please let the beasting begin :peace::roll:

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LGA1366/X58 was not a mainstream desktop platform, it was HEDT ;)
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No it wasn't... there was no HEDT back then, it was marketed as an enthusiast platform as opposed to mainstream, maybe symantics but it wasn't marketed as HEDT, that came later.
 
NdMk2o1o said:
No it wasn't... there was no HEDT back then, it was marketed as an enthusiast platform as opposed to mainstream, maybe symantics but it wasn't marketed as HEDT, that came later.
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LGA11366 was built specifically to replace the LGA771 motherboards (server oriented) which removes it from mainstream. Call it what you will, and maybe the term was not "invented" yet, but it was not intended as a mainstream product. Mainstream at the time was LGA775 and shortly after LGA1156 ;) Which was the point of my original post, but if you want to split hairs, my point still stands, it was not mainstream.
 
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I think 1366 was indeed a good jump from previous Core 2, but I think the biggest leap was from P4 to Core 2, that was a massive increase in performance at the time when AMD was crushing Intel with a more then 1GHz IPC performance gain. I guess its like AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver to Ryzen, that is also a massive increase in performance.

I still run a 1366 System and I do like it very much, 6cores12threads, 12GB RAM it does very well still in the tasks I do with it, dont plan to move it on anytime soon.
 
sneekypeet said:
LGA11366 was built specifically to replace the LGA771 motherboards (server oriented) which removes it from mainstream. Call it what you will, and maybe the term was not "invented" yet, but it was not intended as a mainstream product. Mainstream at the time was LGA775 and shortly after LGA1156 ;) Which was the point of my original post, but if you want to split hairs, my point still stands, it was not mainstream.
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I said enthusiast and specifically seperated it from mainstream, thank you for reiterating that for me. It didnt specifically replace 771 which was a server orientated socket as you mentioned, 1366 wasn't orientated at the server market but to enthusiasts, the same people who skull trail was aimed at, definately a different market to the server market imho but we're splitting hairs now
 
Netburst to Conroe was biggest gain in desktop performance : LINK.
Penryn to Nehalem (LGA 1366) was biggest gain in server performance (when Intel dropped Nehalem, it simply nuked AMD's Opteron line) : LINK.

I had i7 920 (D0) from 2009 to 2012, and then I moved to LGA 2011 (I did sell old platform).
I got it back tho, together with Core i7 980X ;)
So far I tested HexBoot setup on it (only M$ OSes), and I planning some other retro tests as well.

PS. I *almost* maxed out my X79 today : LINK
:)

EDIT : A bit older pic, but it shows what it's all about : LINK
 
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See thread..Run to parts shelf, I have a 950 in this x58-UD7 that I am going to build a nostalgia rig with.. post pics of your x58 gear.
 

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NdMk2o1o said:
I said enthusiast and specifically seperated it from mainstream, thank you for reiterating that for me. It didnt specifically replace 771 which was a server orientated socket as you mentioned, 1366 wasn't orientated at the server market but to enthusiasts, the same people who skull trail was aimed at, definately a different market to the server market imho but we're splitting hairs now
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I see.... You just wanted to piss and moan on a technicality ;)
 
Surprised there isn't a tri-channel club.....
With an avatar:
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