Let the Quad Core era begin...QX6700 review at Anandtech...

Spit · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:09

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2866

:cool:

mikeymike · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:17

tomshardware preview

Uriel · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:23

HardOCP

Interestingly they show the FX62 getting better average framerates in games. Seems odd...

mikeymike · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:25

some stuff from valve about quad core

mikeymike · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:26

maybe because the games gain very little from running on quad core at the moment and so the relative speed of the cpu is making the difference

gizmoy2k · 2 Nov 2006 at 11:34

Read the anandtech review and i am upgrading at christmas from sig below, I thougt X6800 all the way, as it performs better, However this is in the conclusion

If you're stuck between choosing a Core 2 Extreme X6800 or QX6700 at $999, we'd obviously opt for the latter. Both give you incredible performance, but one is a bit more future-proof. And, as we said earlier, you can always overclock the QX6700 but you can't add more cores to the X6800.

Suppose i will go read other reviews now, still need to make a decision

Remedy’s Alan Wake, Valve’s Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and games based on Epic’s Unreal 3 Engine, including Unreal Tournament 2007, will all have the ability to use four simultaneous threads at once.

If this is the case and gaming compaines are taking it up then its the 6700 all the way.........Wheny they in stock Gibbbo?

LOL and now i read i should wait till nest week and see what the new nvidia nforce chipset offers for Core Duo, if its not 1 thing its another eh

maddness · 2 Nov 2006 at 12:04

i need to get the ihs off mine now

Defcon5 · 2 Nov 2006 at 12:10

Is this 2 c2ds glued together pentium d style or is it native?

Spit · 2 Nov 2006 at 12:20

2 glued together.

Stelly · 2 Nov 2006 at 12:27

Defcon5 said:
Is this 2 c2ds glued together pentium d style or is it native?

bloomsfield will be native though

Stelly

Defcon5 · 2 Nov 2006 at 12:45

Stelly said:
bloomsfield will be native though

Stelly

How much of a difference does being native make? is it substantial?

n1kunj · 2 Nov 2006 at 12:49

Defcon5 said:
How much of a difference does being native make? is it substantial?

I think the main difference is that it doesnt consume as much power and theres much less heat given off from a native chip.

Voltage · 2 Nov 2006 at 13:14

when are they due?

Booner! · 2 Nov 2006 at 13:19

and how much (£) estimate :confused:

Voltage · 2 Nov 2006 at 13:23

£700

Stelly · 2 Nov 2006 at 13:50

Confusion said:
when are they due?

Bloomsfield, I next year... 2nd quarter...

Stelly

Voltage · 2 Nov 2006 at 13:56

i thought one type of chip was due in the next few weeks?

Mordor · 2 Nov 2006 at 18:29

Defcon5 said:
How much of a difference does being native make? is it substantial?

Also from my understanding of it the 2 glued together have to communicate with each other over the FSB, while a native solution can communicate directly. Having to communicate over the FSB is a lot slower than a direct connection between the cores.

mark35 · 2 Nov 2006 at 19:19

should be out 14th or 15th this month

Muzzz · 2 Nov 2006 at 21:29

Mordor said:
Also from my understanding of it the 2 glued together have to communicate with each other over the FSB, while a native solution can communicate directly. Having to communicate over the FSB is a lot slower than a direct connection between the cores.

Thats what I understand as well, native quad core is nice.