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Kentsfield

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I flicked through the current copy of a PC magazine recently and it had an article where it claimed to have found benchmarks of one of Intel's upcoming Quad-core processors and it was performing anything up to 3 times as well as their reference system (not entirely sure what the system was, I wasn't about to buy the mag for one article).

Anyone else seen anything about this apparent leak?
 
<maddness> here has one as well. There's not that many applications that make use of some many cores, but I can see a lot of games going the multithreaded route in the coming years.

Jokester
 
There are loads of Kentsfield benchmarks.

Some dudes got one to 5.25Ghz with a sub 10 sec 1Mb Super pi.

Its basically 2x 4Mb Conroes on one chip.

It performs as one conroe in single thread apps.

It performs up to 1.8/1.9x one conroe.

CR.
 
Which board would that be on, sounds pretty good to me considering 4 cores should be harder to overclock equally? Needs twice as much voltage wont it
 
Asus DH, only really relying on the multipler as fsb with kentsfield is pretty much pants on that board. MSI powerup allows higher FSb but no multiplier change (upwards). Hmm im going to try another board, not sure which one yet, probably the workstation pro one.

edit: no :p, it doesnt need twice the voltage.
 
its hot as hell though, expect high 50's to mid 60's idles and 70's+ on load on 3Ghz and above using 1.5+V, tbh with current software trends quad cores not really a worthwile investment for at least 1/2 to 1 years plus by then the 45nm true quad core will be out from both intel and AMD instead of just 2 conroes slapped together ont the same pcb.

As far as price from what I have heard its gonna be priced around XE prices since it will just be another intel XE chip, whether you will see those sort of prices within the first 1-2 months of launch depends on availability.
 
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