Well it's in a video released by Intel but I thought if he downloaded it already he might as well post a screenshot. If he didn't I'll just watch the video again.
I just went back over the Nehalem EX link at Hot Hardware. This looks like Boxboro. Then there is this slide where they mention an OEM node controller and that the solution is scalable. But before this, Hypertransport could support up to 8 nodes, AMD just didn't have any 8 core chips. There is a lot of parallelism to be found in a server doing 'server-y' things. Desktops are a bit different. threading in games specifically has a lot written about it, and I'm not expert in the field so I'll leave the rest to Google
Bumpage of this thread reminded me of what I found: Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580a http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/primequest/products/server/500a/ Check the specs. *drool*
8 cores will be a sensible limit for high end consumer computers, would love 8 cores right now, running six cores to render and two for multitasking. What i wish they would do is build a CPU that had something like an Atom CPU built in, so when idling or surfing the net, low power tasks. Then when something intensive is started, the other cores would be turned on. This design would cut power consumtion down massively. Same idea used for GPU set ups aswell. I love my Quad but i hate the thought of when spending an hour or so on here (bit-tech) and all i am doing is viewing some images and txt with a overclocked Quad and a GTX280! lol!
That's a valid point. I sometimes wonder aswell how I rarely need a video card but when I need it I need a powerful one. My current 4870 512MB is way overkill for the stuff I usually do (web surfing, virtual machines, uncompressing etc...) but it's not powerful enough for the occasional GTA IV session.
