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Nehalem Final Specs

Nehalem really fed the IT rumor mills in the past months, as fictitious specs circulated all around, a delay was prefigured, and some preliminary tests proved it can be faster than expected. Now Intel comes along once again and announces the final specs and settles the release issue once and for all… or not?

According to Fudzilla, Intel’s higher clocked codename Bloomfield will work at 3.20GHz. It will come with 6.4 GT/s QDI memory speed, but it still integrates only 8M of total cache. It’s still a quad-core CPU (what, did you expect it to somehow turn into an octo-core over night?). Still, it can manage that eight simultaneous threads and officially supports DDR3 1333. This is pretty awkward, since DDR3 memories have already reached 2 GHz standard and can go beyond that in OC mode. Intel claims, however, that any 1333+ memory matched with this CPU will have to be overclocked in order to make it work. Great, so now they fully encourage overcliking methods.

Moreover, preliminary test have shown that the triple channel memory support will require three memory modules for best performance, but this could actually turn to be a good thing, lowering the memory prices even more.

Nehalem has 130W TDP which looks a tad better than that of QX9770. The sad part is that the new Bloomfield will only work with a brand new LGA1366 socket motherboard. Not to mention the integrated memory controller, QDI, and some more stuff you already know. Intel also claims that we will most certainly see Nehalem coming in Q4 2008. Right… for $2,000?

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