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Intel 10-core Xeon processors (20 cores)

20 threads. Not cores.


and, who knows whether it will overclock well, its based on the sand bridge architecture, but that might not mean much.

The question is, can you afford it?
 
I would have thought that having more cores would limit overclocking potential like in the case of Core2 in which duals overclock higher than quads. :confused:

Wouldn't overclocking 10 cores cpu generate immense heat?:confused:
 
It's an interesting prospect for supercomputers, one node with two of these processors would have 20gb of RAM (typical RAM per core is 1gb at the moment) if not more. I imagine that if they are used they would only use one chip per node.
 
DragonQ said:
What's the difference between the 8xxx and 2xxx ones?
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2xxx are for dual socket servers, 4xxx are for 4 socket servers and 8xxx are for 8 socket servers (imagine, 80 cores with HT - 160 CPU charts in your task manager)
 
WingZero30 said:
I would have thought that having more cores would limit overclocking potential like in the case of Core2 in which duals overclock higher than quads. :confused:

Wouldn't overclocking 10 cores cpu generate immense heat?:confused:
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Almost all energy that goes into a CPU emerges as heat, so whatever it consumes in watts == heat that must be dissipated. So as the voltage is increased, and the real-time power consumption jumps it will generate plenty of heat.

The characteristic you describe isn't really intrinsic to the number of cores in itself though.
 
Intel need to do something, a quad socket (48 core) opteron system at 2.3 walks all over an SR-2 with two 6 core HT chips at 4.2ghz in distributed computing tasks
 
PhillyDee said:
To be fair, thats 48 cores against 12 (24 with HT). Not surprising really.
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I know its an unfair comparison, I'm just talking generally about the server/workstation market.

Intel can't compete as AMD are the core kings, they may not be the raw quickest but the cores makes up for that.
 
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