<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 14 Oct 2008, at 22:00, Igor Kozin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Did you really hold the Nehalem Xeon chips in your hands? They probably require new motherboards with a new chipset.<br> </div></blockquote><div>absolutely <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><br>It would be nice to hear from you some numbers concerning Harpertown vs Nehalem performance</div> </blockquote><div><br>those who know will not be able tell you because of the NDA.<br>i think it is fair to say that the major difference is expected in the memory bandwidth.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>They may not be able to, but there are presentations from IDF last August which include some information which may be useful, and which is clearly public.</div><div><br></div><div>Start at <a href="https://intel.wingateweb.com/US08/scheduler/controller/catalog">https://intel.wingateweb.com/US08/scheduler/controller/catalog</a></div><div>and search for presentations which mention Nehalem.</div><div><br></div><div>(Disclaimer: I work for Intel).</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-- Jim</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">James Cownie <<a href="mailto:jcownie@cantab.net">jcownie@cantab.net</a>></font></p> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div> </div><br></body></html>