Nehalem at 2.66GHz does SuperPi 1M in 8.328 seconds? No...

[Andreas G]

Nehalem will be the next new microarchitecture from Intel. It is expected to bring significant performance improvements and raise the already (for AMD painfully) high bar. Nehalem will also be Intel's first native quad-core. Over at Chinese website XFastest a user posted a screenshot with what he claims to be a Nehalem processor running at 2.66GHz (thread has been removed). He fed it SuperPi 1M and it devoured it. The screenshot shows 8.328 seconds. If this is real ... I just can't think of anything to say ...

If you feed the data into the validator you get an incorrect checksum and the CPU-Z is horribly out of date. Consider it with a truckloads and truckloads of salt.

Update: Fake.

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[Delph1]

I just couldn't let this one pass. No idea if it's true, but ...

//Andreas
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[Mean Machine]

Wouldn't be bad. I'm sitting with my DDR3 sticks in standby and hope I don't fry them till Nehalem arrives.
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[Skyguy]

When's Nehalem due to arrive? 1H 2009?
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[Delph1]

First models should arrive Q4. Server at least, perhaps first desktop Extreme Edition too.

//Andreas
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"I'm sort of a postmodern vegetarian, I eat meat ironically"
"You are our Swedish superhero "

Forget everything, knowledge is your enemy, it's only going to make you second-guess yourself."

[super dank]

Some things just sound too good to be true