Initial Intel 'Nehalem' CPUs as cheap as chips

[edesignuk]

Pssst! Want an Intel 'Nehalem' processor on the cheap? Well, just go and ask the chip giant for one. It's 2.66GHz 'Bloomfield' CPU has been price at just $284, it has been claimed.

That's the batch price, of course. To get it, you'll have to buy a 1000 CPUs at once - boxed Bloomfields will come in slightly higher than that.

As previously reported, the 2.66GHz Bloomfield - Intel's desktop Nehalem - will also be made available in 2.93GHz and 3.2GHz versions. The pricing, posted by Chinese-language site HKEPC, confirms the latter will be an Extreme-branded gaming PC part - it'll cost $999. The mid-range Bloomfield will cost $562.

The Register.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Except no desktop Nehalem processor will be used in a Mac.

Gainestown/Beckton for the Mac Pro, and mobile processors for the rest.

 

[edesignuk]

Except no desktop Nehalem processor will be used in a Mac.

poop, I shoulda thunk of that 😱 oh well, they will be iMac bound eventually.

 

[Apple Ink]

Cool! Time to upgrade😀

 

[Tallest Skil]

poop, I shoulda thunk of that 😱 oh well, they will be iMac bound eventually.

Do you think that they'll change from mobile to desktop processors in the iMac? It'd give us some more power, but they'd need to be thicker, and I'm not seeing that happening while Jobs and Ive are around.

 

[edesignuk]

Hell, who knows. Pricing being cheap for anything in the Nehalem line can only be good though.

 

[Pressure]

And it will probably require three-channel DDR3.

Yes, now you need 3 modules of DDR3, which isn't cheap by any means.

 

[rockinrocker]

And it will probably require three-channel DDR3.

Yes, now you need 3 modules of DDR3, which isn't cheap by any means.

what? i thought ram had to be in pairs? is this changing?

 

[nanofrog]

what? i thought ram had to be in pairs? is this changing?

Yup. 😎

 

[edesignuk]

Yes, now you need 3 modules of DDR3, which isn't cheap by any means.

At first it won't be, but like anything it'll come down.

I'll certainly be happy with my Octo 2.8 for a good few years yet. Wonder what Intel will be rocking around say, 2012?

 

[Tallest Skil]

Wonder what Intel will be rocking around say, 2012?

They'll require you to install seventeen DDR6 modules at once. Each module will not come any smaller than two gigabytes.

 

[CWallace]

I would expect Gainestown to be priced similar to Harpertown when they first launched.

 

[rockinrocker]

They'll require you to install seventeen DDR6 modules at once. Each module will not come any smaller than two gigabytes.

ha.

 

[hugodrax]

They'll require you to install seventeen DDR6 modules at once. Each module will not come any smaller than two gigabytes.

And each module has a fan and require a power connection to the powersupply just like videocards.

 

[CWallace]

And each module has a fan and require a power connection to the powersupply just like videocards.

Nah, it will be liquid-cooled. Maybe even freon or liquid nitrogen. 😛