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How much longer until Nehalem? and how good?

Perfect_Chaos

Perfect_Chaos

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By the time quad is fully used in games we will have 8 core, then have people saying the same thing about that its the best thing since sliced bread :p. But IMO whatever the case will be, i can see 8 core starting at 1.8-2.0ghz for the lowest end chip, then that will cost £200+.

im not sure, ive not heard much on that front. Maybe its only a small percentage quicker over wolfdale etc.?

Put it this way, what are people more likely to buy if we get cheapish quads at stock speeds of 3.0 ghz or higher and then 2.0 octocores?

So how much longer to wait and how much faster? everyones opinion is welcome.
 
I dont know much about it, but me being a gamer; dont see how they are going to be needed to play the games we have now (Crysis i dunno). I think they might get pushed back.
 
8 cores will be a ***** to cool, even with 45nm tech

I doubt that there'll be much gain going 4-8 cores, so I don't think we'll be seeing 8 cores anytime soon.
 
Ben M said:
8 cores will be a ***** to cool, even with 45nm tech

I doubt that there'll be much gain going 4-8 cores, so I don't think we'll be seeing 8 cores anytime soon.
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i beleive both Intel and AMD have octo-core CPU's in the works, i recon they will be released around this time next year.

I imagine AMD will be out first, as with the Phenom, trying to get them onto the market first before Intel - but probs problems too, lol
 
wingnuttzz said:
i beleive both Intel and AMD have octo-core CPU's in the works, i recon they will be released around this time next year.

I imagine AMD will be out first, as with the Phenom, trying to get them onto the market first before Intel - but probs problems too, lol
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How did Phenom get AMD in to the market first?
 
wingnuttzz said:
i beleive both Intel and AMD have octo-core CPU's in the works, i recon they will be released around this time next year.

I imagine AMD will be out first, as with the Phenom, trying to get them onto the market first before Intel - but probs problems too, lol
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Well, as far as im aware, I don't think AMD will have anything out by then to combat Nehalem, since there current Phenoms's can't even beet Intel's current Processors, unless im missing something? and I haven`t heard any news of something special coming from them next year that could make them on par with Nehalem.
 
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I was reading up on them yesterday. I was expecting by the end of next year to have a nice octo core sat in my PC with 16 logical cores but by what is said on this site they will only be in servers by then :(



For people who CBA ;):D

I want a 'BloomField' but all depends on prices. The 6.4 GT/s sounds nice :D (Even though I have no idea what it does :confused: Perhaps it's a GIGA-TON :D) I think I will stick with my E6600 & then Q6600/Q9450 for a while into next year though :D

Triple Channel DDR3... is that really needed :D

Also like the look of the 'Havendale' & 'Auburndale' for cheap PC's with thier GPU core :cool:

Edit: Maybe they will have desktop octo cores on the new die shrink?
 
Well, I am really dissapointed about the whole dual core in general. even now most games don't even support dual core, and if they do performance increase is minimal.

Time for developers to use all these cores.
 
I think the dual core is a great upgrade from single but for gamers quad is a bit overkill I feel.

Thing is a lot of people do F@Hor use BOINC so the extra cores help loads in multitasking enviroments.

If games don't need the extra power then game writers don't need to code it...

All my opinion of course :D
 
pre1twa said:
How did Phenom get AMD in to the market first?
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they got into the market first with a TRUE quad core, and not 2 dual core proccessors shoved onto one chip.

i believe that the will get a TRUE octo core CPU out first, but i highly doubt it will be better than anything Intel will release
 
I'm sure I read Socket 1160 uses PCI-E 2.0 as it's bus and will replace Nahlem's socket 1366 just six months later?

Which don't really make much sense. But neither does introducing 3 seperate platforms. Two at the most.
 
If you're disappointed about dual core, you don't really get it. A game does not need to utilize all cores to see a boost from a C2D/Penryn processor. They have huge architectural upgrades that make them much more effective per mhz, across all cores. Added to that, the dual cores will run windows threads on one of them and the game on the other, freeing up resources.
 
I've got dual quads in my work PC, pretty much useless in our lunchtime team fortress games but very useful when i've got multiple virtual servers running
 
I was hoping they'd release 8core chips to the public too, would be dead handy for 3dwork.

Looks like I'll just have to build more machines for a render farm :p
 
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