Bujang Lapok - Slashdot User

Comment Re:No Xeon? (Score 1) 115

by Bujang Lapok on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:27PM (#26133577) Attached to: Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown

Save your dosh. The xeon will have nehalem in Q1.

Comment Re:Flawed analysis, I just bought a dual-core E840 (Score 2, Informative) 115

by Bujang Lapok on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:20PM (#26133485) Attached to: Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown

You do NOT want to use 4GB ram for an i7. It has to be in multiples of 3GB since the i7 uses a triple channel ddr3. Some mobos have 4 slots (eg Intel DX58SO), however populating that last slot will sacrifice triple channel with single channel performance.

Comment Re:the computer is not just the cpu (Score 1) 115

by Bujang Lapok on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:12PM (#26133391) Attached to: Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown

I just don't understand why there aren't more consumer boards with a lot more sockets, using FB-DIMM or registered DDR. You have to go to server boards for that ($$$).

It's not just the matter of having the sockets, the chipset must also support the additional RAM. Most consumer chipsets either support 4GB or 8GB only. Some like the atom support 2GB only iirc. Even some serverboards max out at 8GB (esp those supporting the Xeon 3000 processor)

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