Nehalem - Quad or Octo cores?

Perfect_Chaos · 17 Jun 2008 at 02:25

Who's going to go for what?

Quad for gaming & Octocore for encoding?

or do you think Octocores will be as fast as Quads?

Sylver123 · 17 Jun 2008 at 04:51

Well, for me, my first Nehalem will be the Quad release, and also because Octocore won`t be available as far as im aware strate away for desktop sockets, and will only be available for 1567 - server boards at first.

Personally, i don`t think i`ll need that much cores the Octocore brings for a some time, and Quad should last me for a while.

ZXSpectrum · 17 Jun 2008 at 10:22

Quad core with HT...

Janesy B · 17 Jun 2008 at 10:27

Pointless thread.

Chimerical · 17 Jun 2008 at 10:46

Janesy B said:
Pointless thread.

Pointless post.

Ben M · 17 Jun 2008 at 10:51

Skyline said:
Quad core with HT...

Exactly.

Will the octos be HT as well?

Chimerical said:
Pointless post.

/irony

Chimerical · 17 Jun 2008 at 10:58

Ben M said:
/irony

Touché.

tbh · 18 Jun 2008 at 01:51

If I'm not mistaken, 6 core (or "hexacore" if you must) will be with us before 8 core CPUs?

Perfect_Chaos · 18 Jun 2008 at 02:42

Ben M said:
Will the octos be HT as well?

Apparently they will be, from the info i have read on different sites.

vorm · 18 Jun 2008 at 10:40

I thought all the Nehalems were HT

kppanic · 19 Jun 2008 at 18:51

They gonna come up with better naming conventions... Octocore... What are they going to call 16 or 24 or 32 cores? =p

Dual octocores and quad octocores might work for 16 or 32 =p

ewww

FrankJH · 19 Jun 2008 at 19:25

kppanic said:
They gonna come up with better naming conventions... Octocore... What are they going to call 16 or 24 or 32 cores? =p

Dual octocores and quad octocores might work for 16 or 32 =p

ewww

Or more latin will become common (whatever 16 and 32 actually are)

edit quick google

16 = sedecim
32= tri-duo? Thirty actually being Triginta but I can imagine it being shortened pretty quickly lol

Richie P · 20 Jun 2008 at 00:41

vorm said:
I thought all the Nehalems were HT

I'm fairly sure this is true.

Will no doubt be left out of the budget and celeron lines of chips, but all mid to high-end Nehalems should have SMT.

And, can we start calling it SMT please...HT is dead

kppanic · 20 Jun 2008 at 17:48

FrankJH said:
Or more latin will become common (whatever 16 and 32 actually are)

edit quick google

16 = sedecim
32= tri-duo? Thirty actually being Triginta but I can imagine it being shortened pretty quickly lol

Not meaning to digress from OP's subject,

but hehehehehe I just find it funny. Kinda like Intel having a hard time getting rid of the name Pentium where we get stuff like Pentium 4 lol =)

Hmm and I thought those octo- and quad- prefixes were greek, not latin?

It'd be funny - Core 2 Sececim or Sedecore? hehehehehe

kppanic · 20 Jun 2008 at 17:49

Richie P said:
I'm fairly sure this is true.

Will no doubt be left out of the budget and celeron lines of chips, but all mid to high-end Nehalems should have SMT.

And, can we start calling it SMT please...HT is dead

What is the difference between HT and SMT?

thegoonden · 22 Jun 2008 at 02:52

Chimerical said:
Pointless post.

Pointless tech.

"ooooh I just spent £200 so I can have SEVEN core doing sweet FA instead of 3, wooooohoooo aren't I chuffed".

errrmm
no ta.

(insert stanard disclaimer about, "when they can actually write software for them, or write CPU drivers that can virually thread a single process").

Davy644 · 22 Jun 2008 at 09:01

I have donated 40% of my quad idle time to folding which i have running 24/7 however for me to ever think of upgrading to a multi core chip it would have to be cheap" to run

RoEy · 23 Jun 2008 at 14:34

When is the Quad Nehalem being released? I've heard Q4 2008. I hope it's not any later because I can't wait much longer.

RoEy

milkinc13 · 23 Jun 2008 at 16:02

thegoonden said:
Pointless tech.

"ooooh I just spent £200 so I can have SEVEN core doing sweet FA instead of 3, wooooohoooo aren't I chuffed".

errrmm
no ta.
.

that's called a PS3