Penryn to ship in November
posted in Technology, Hardware |Several sites reported last week that Intel plans to ship Penryn, the 45nm technology CPUs November 12th. Initially they will ship the high end chips and some of the server ones which should be fine for me. Hopefully I’ll be building my new workstation just about for Thanksgiving although there is one potential glitch. My assumption is that I’m going to hold out for DDR3 memory which should add about 10-20% to system performance once you get the faster DDR3 parts. The problem is that right now it is astronomically expensive- close to $200/gb (compared to $70/gb for decent DDR2 memory). Since I want 4GB I really don’t want to pay $800 for the memory.
My hope is that the prices are so bad right now since there are only one or two motherboards that can actually take it. Once the X38 chipsets ship in a week or two there should be a lot more DDR3 capable boards on the market and I’m hoping the prices will be down to $100-$120/gb by the time I’m ready to buy.