Dual core atom cpu any time soon?

Bengaboy · 7 Aug 2008 at 00:34

Hi guys

Is there any news of a dual core atom in the works anytime soon?

Looking at getting a (type of calendar you get at xmas) 4211, but will hold out for a dual core atom if theres one soon.

Cheers

Big.Wayne · 7 Aug 2008 at 00:50

Bengaboy · 7 Aug 2008 at 00:59

Big.Wayne said:
nope

Have any idea when mate?

Big.Wayne · 7 Aug 2008 at 01:02

Forget about an enthusiast part anytime soon, its still really early days.

Gimme some clue why you were looking at the Intel® Atom™ Processor? what you have in mind?

Bengaboy · 7 Aug 2008 at 01:52

Big.Wayne said:
Forget about an enthusiast part anytime soon, its still really early days.

Gimme some clue why you were looking at the Intel® Atom™ Processor? what you have in mind?

Im looking at buying one of those netbooks, and Im thinking I may wait a bit if a dual core variant is coming out soon

Big.Wayne · 7 Aug 2008 at 02:19

Oh I see

Any reason you would want a dual-core netbook? I thought the idea with them was just very simple web acess and word processing?

MikeHiow · 7 Aug 2008 at 02:28

I've been looking into an Asus EEEPC recently, of which the 901 and 1000 models use an Atom, they look very useful as an ultra-portable computing solution, and the mod community is huge, people integrating all sorts of stuff into them.

Now a dual core version would be nothing short of amazing, as far as computing power goes, for something so small.

Big.Wayne · 7 Aug 2008 at 02:34

Hmmm, kinda defeats the whole low powered idea though? I mean I know having dual-core is handy on a normal machine but surely it would just drain extra power without offering that much extra performance?

MikeHiow · 7 Aug 2008 at 02:37

You'd obviously need to improve the battery, which there is obvious scope for improvement on (currently around 480mah iirc).

PhilGQ · 8 Aug 2008 at 20:39

Found this in the news section of a well known PC magazine. Can't link to it there are ads on the page.

Shen announced earlier this month that yet more new Eee PCs will be released in September, with SSD drives up to 120GB in capacity and with dual-core Atom processors.

Shen is President a ASUS, so to answer your question: about a month +plus a few more to reach these shores.

psychas · 8 Aug 2008 at 20:57

what the specs of atom anyway ?

Indy500 · 8 Aug 2008 at 21:01

The Atom is just as weak as the 512KB\533FSB Celeron M, I don't really see the point of a dual core.

Janesy B · 8 Aug 2008 at 21:03

The Atom is more powerful than that celeron, there's no dual core in intel's roadmap and rightly so.

Indy500 · 8 Aug 2008 at 21:05

Janesy B said:
The Atom is more powerful than that celeron, there's no dual core in intel's roadmap and rightly so.

By what amount?

nightmare99 · 8 Aug 2008 at 21:17

I think its september for the DC Atom, 330 is it?

Not sure if these will make it into netbooks think they will appear on the Little Falls 2 board first.

Big.Wayne · 26 Sep 2008 at 01:37

Bengaboy said:
Is there any news of a dual core atom in the works anytime soon?

Big.Wayne said:
Forget about an enthusiast part anytime soon, its still really early days

Lol I love it when I get it wrong!

Intel Atom 330 Dual Core on ECS P945GC

Hyper-Threaded too! :eek:

Rroff · 26 Sep 2008 at 06:58

Hyper-Threading makes sense and I'm glad they enabled it... gives a lot more performance potential without a huge extra power draw.

Phatzy · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:00

i would love to build atom based pc and stick it on top of my sky box

gt_junkie · 26 Sep 2008 at 11:14

Looks very good to me!

Just wish they'd arrived sooner as i've only recently built a hoojum cubit 3 system consisting of an e7200, 4gb of DDR2, dvdrw and 250gb 7200rpm HDD.

gt

matja · 26 Sep 2008 at 12:02

MikeHiow said:
You'd obviously need to improve the battery, which there is obvious scope for improvement on (currently around 480mah iirc).

my EEE 901 came with a 6600mAh battery, much better than the older EEE's