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Intel unveils Nehalem demo machine

Nehalem in a handcart
Monday, 14 July 2008, 10:01

WHILE INTEL WILL launch Nehalem at the San Francisco Intel Developers Forum in August, the firm has already unveiled a supercharged demo machine which features the chippery along with advanced solid state drives (SSD) and other technical goodies.

Assembled in an Origen AE S21T HTPC enclosure, the Intel Nehalem four-core demo machine includes an optical drive, a card reader and a stunning 12.1-inch (30.73cm) touch screen with a native resolution of 1280x800.

The powerful Nehalem processor, with indigenous hyper-threading
functionality, is chilled by a large, Thermalright air cooler. According to Hot Hardware, the Nehalem features a built-in triple-channel memory controller with three DDR3 DIMMs installed on the X58 chipset-based motherboard. A specially designed Intel SATA II controller runs two blazingly fast 80GB solid state drives in a RAID 0 configuration. ยต

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But...

Can it run Crysis with decent framerates?


posted by : Deimios, 14 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Why the low res, is it using weak intel graphics?

It's only running 1280x800 resolution. Why is the latest and greatest running such a weak resolution?

Lets see some COD4 on the 65in TV they have in Costco!

posted by : interested_party, 15 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Ya but how will my solitare game play

Can we get some screen shots? before I WET MY PANTS IN EXCITEMENT

posted by : raymond , 15 July 2008 Complain about this comment
That's no PC...

...that's a microwave oven! I'm really not sure about 12" screens integrated onto the case like that.

posted by : Stephen Brooks, 15 July 2008 Complain about this comment
It's a touch screen

It's a 1280x800 touch screen and Crysis is shader locked anyway. But that is the reason for the low resolution. Intel is not really interested in advertising for AMD or nVidia.

posted by : Skip, 15 July 2008 Complain about this comment
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