8core cpu, guess :)

square_nothing · 2 Apr 2010 at 23:39

guess at how long till we will see 8core cpu's at under £400?
i recon at summer 2011

sorry for the random thread but i always like guessing at how fast tec advances. with i7 its been faster than i guessed.

MikeHunt79 · 2 Apr 2010 at 23:52

september 2010

mast3r · 2 Apr 2010 at 23:58

april 2011

square_nothing · 3 Apr 2010 at 00:00

MikeHunt79 said:
september 2010

:O i wish lol, waiting for a affordable 8core till i upgrade. at duo atm and it is fine for me. as quad is coming in gaming exc ill get a 8core when they are out to hopefully future proof it for abit

mrteabag · 3 Apr 2010 at 00:04

MikeHunt79 said:
september 2010

We can dream

arknor · 3 Apr 2010 at 00:30

second half of march/first half of april 2011

lukus001 · 3 Apr 2010 at 03:02

8 cores for $8

http://www.parallax.com/PropellerChips/tabid/833/Default.aspx

SirCanealot · 4 Apr 2010 at 16:29

Intel will bring them out when a game comes out that actually uses all those cores apart from Supreme Commander

harryohh · 4 Apr 2010 at 17:13

October 2011.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 4 Apr 2010 at 19:05

The AMD Opteron 6128 is under £400 and is a 8 core CPU.

Pooh · 4 Apr 2010 at 19:27

I'll probably do a major upgade this year. I've been doing incremental upgrades for a while now but when the 8 cores do come out I'll probably got for a hex core and that with the new mobo, tri channel ram should see some significant performance jumps.

8 core availability should hopefully drop the hex core prices.

Troezar · 4 Apr 2010 at 20:08

As said previously not much software takes advantage of the cores. However maybe with all these chips coming out developers will start writing more scalable software. Hopefully that will happen faster than it took 64bit to take off!

L0rdMike · 4 Apr 2010 at 20:25

V4nger · 4 Apr 2010 at 20:32

what about 12 cores

Pooh · 4 Apr 2010 at 23:35

Troezar said:
As said previously not much software takes advantage of the cores. However maybe with all these chips coming out developers will start writing more scalable software. Hopefully that will happen faster than it took 64bit to take off!

A lot of 'serious software' i.e. not games does take advantage of multi core esp. in the graphics and video arena.

The arrival of affordable 6, 8 & 12 cores can't come soon enough.

I reckon on Q2 2011 for 8 core to start being accessible to the enthusiast who doesn't have bottomless pockets.

z3r0 · 5 Apr 2010 at 22:38

V4nger said:
what about 12 cores

2014-2016, games using them about 2050.

V4nger · 5 Apr 2010 at 23:48

z3r0 said:
2014-2016, games using them about 2050.

nah it says something about next year when AMD's Bulldozer comes out

but yeah they are server processors really. i dont expect many games will even be using 6 cores for the next year or 2. they just dont need/cant use them.

jorzeh · 6 Apr 2010 at 01:05

More then i can Afford and prob 14 months.

kalvindeane · 7 Apr 2010 at 19:34

3q 2011

baron02 · 7 Apr 2010 at 19:44

somtime in 2011. I wont upgrade to it though no need yet