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I recently blogged the following article and I'm interested in your opinion... Thoughts?

8 cores will only be for the high-end quad socket Xeon chips (Beckton)... although I get your point... the average gamer certainly doesn't need even 4 cores now. That will all change over time though. It was only a couple of years ago that people were wondering if we could use two cores...

No, only some engineering samples for development and testing. Some early pics here... http://www.nehalemnews.com/2008/04/sighting-nehalem-es-motherboards.html

This might help explain the differences... Also see... http://www.nehalemnews.com/2008/04/sighting-nehalem-lga1366-socket.html Cheers, -Chris.

Hey... I'm new here but looking for a community of people enthusiastic about Nehalem and it seems I found it! Anyway, I'm definitely upgrading my Q6600 system to Nehalem later this year. If you are interested, I've started a blog site to collect information and news about Nehalem and...