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11th November - Penryn Day
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But how much will they be, are they going to be as affordable as what the Q6600 is now??
Being as that assertion has been around since the Xeons and P4s were different (sort of) chips entirely, i.e. pre-P4EE 3.2, I wouldn't base a purchase on it.
And considering speed-binning happens whatever the processor die base (i.e. Xeon/Core2Duo or Quad/Mobile, etc.; Opteron/Athlon 64), the purchaser get a high quality duffer or a low-quality duffer.
And considering that most CPUs will run for a good few years overclocked like bananas anyway (albeit a shortened lifespan), I would say that whether or not they are on higher quality silicon has little bearing on the purchase of a gaming system.
If you'd said "because they're available before the standard desktop processors," then that's another story entirely.
And considering speed-binning happens whatever the processor die base (i.e. Xeon/Core2Duo or Quad/Mobile, etc.; Opteron/Athlon 64), the purchaser get a high quality duffer or a low-quality duffer.
And considering that most CPUs will run for a good few years overclocked like bananas anyway (albeit a shortened lifespan), I would say that whether or not they are on higher quality silicon has little bearing on the purchase of a gaming system.
If you'd said "because they're available before the standard desktop processors," then that's another story entirely.
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those might be the lga771 server/workstation ones, i doubt they would release the lga775-xeons before the lga775-core2 ones.
sid said:
I'd take a punt that it was more to do with basketing, i.e. putting all the chips with TDPs below 50W into the 50W (i.e. the lowest chip will probably be something like 35W or something like that). For them to squeeze those last few megahertz out of the chip requires it to go from whatever to whatever.
Remember, there are four cores under the hood there, so it's only 10W each.
And stop moaning. Just be impressed that they can squeeze that much stuff into something less than the size of a first-class stamp.
