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Quad Core for the masses?

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In order to further solidify its positions of the market of high-performance microprocessors and popularize quad-core chips, Intel Corp. will sell its highly-anticipated central processing units (CPUs) with four processing engines at significantly lower price-points than it so far has been expected.


Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, which is expected to be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in several days, will cost $531 in 1000-unit quantities, not $850 as previously anticipated, several media reports claim. Its price point will make the quad-core processor just $1 more expensive compared to the current price of Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 chip, which has a bit higher clock-speed.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 chip is expected to run at 2.40GHz, come with 8MB L2 cache and use 1066MHz processor system bus (PSB). The Core 2 Duo E6700 processor operates at 2.66GHz, contains 4MB of unified level-two cache and uses 1066MHz PSB. While the Core 2 Duo 6700 operates at higher clock-speed and will be slightly faster in applications that take advantage of two cores (or rely on one core only), the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is likely to be more efficient in future applications.

In fact, the price-point and similarity of specifications are likely to catalyze more computer makers and end-users to choose the CPU with four cores instead of a chip with two cores, which will further encourage software makers to tweak their software for multi-core processors.

In addition to price reduction of the Core 2 Quad Q6600, Intel will also release another quad-core product based on code-named Kentsfield design in Q3 2007. The chip which is expected to be called Core 2 Quad Q6400 is likely to operate at the speed of 2.13GHz, accommodate 8MB of L2 cache in total and use 1066MHz PSB. The chip will be fit into more mainstream price-points.

Still, the popularization of quad-core chips does not mean that Intel will cease to improve its dual-core microprocessors. Intel is projected to release Intel Core 2 Duo processors with E6850, E6750 and E6650 model numbers with 3.0GHz, 2.66GHz and 2.33GHz clock-speeds respectively and 1333MHz processor system bus in Q3 2007, when appropriate code-named Bearlake-series chipsets become available. The new chips will support TXT technology.

Intel did not comment on the news-story.
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If the Q6600 retails for the same as the E6700 I will certainly be tempted.
 
350 quid for an Q6600? sounds mighty tempting.... id get one but think its due in 3-4 months time ?

Would be nice to just grab a Quadcore+4gig and 1gig Graphics card and 1TB drive and be done for upgrading for a year or 2 ;)
 
IMO at the moment price for the Q6600 very good, however is it needed at the moment for 95% of people i'd say no! but i've heard a nasty rumour that once you have popped them into your motherboard and fired it up it strangely add's length to your e-penis :confused:
 
The problem is that most boards seem to hit a very low fsb wall with kentsfield chips. This is no problem if you have an extreme edition one, as you can just up the multi. With the Q6600 though, you may be stuffed here. :(
 
harris1986 said:
IMO at the moment price for the Q6600 very good, however is it needed at the moment for 95% of people i'd say no! but i've heard a nasty rumour that once you have popped them into your motherboard and fired it up it strangely add's length to your e-penis :confused:
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Sold!
 
harris1986 said:
IMO at the moment price for the Q6600 very good, however is it needed at the moment for 95% of people i'd say no! but i've heard a nasty rumour that once you have popped them into your motherboard and fired it up it strangely add's length to your e-penis :confused:
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Quadfs are great for people who will use all four cores.

Like video editing encoding multimedia work etc...

If you just game don't bother.

It has nothing to do with your latter point.
 
I personally would make very little use of the quads at this point in time. £600+ for a cpu that is gonna get very little use from me would be a waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere upgrading components that I DO use on a regular basis. Good luck to those who do have one and make full use of them though.
 
w3bbo said:
I personally would make very little use of the quads at this point in time.
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putting aside my general disdain of Intel for a moment, i dont see the point of Quad core from any manufacturer under a standard desktop environment at least not for another few years ? Generally speaking things are barely using dual core as it is, sure with Vista thats going to change but its hard enough to find software and games willing to use dual core let alone quad core... seems like a total waste of money to me :/
 
i'm gonna be quite happy with my E6300 which i'm waiting for atm. i'l probably switch to the 2nd generation of quad cores, or perhaps the 3rd. i don't see cpu usage in games increasing hugely, apart from physics, and well, i'd be quite happy to buy a x1650 xt to do the physics grunt work, when the time comes.
 
Wont this thing clock like crap?

Reasoning: all 4 cores wont be exactly the same, 2 cores might clock good while the other 2 fail at a lower clock = a pretty lousy overall overclock.

Apart from that, it isnt a proper quad core is it? like wont the real ones to come have HT or whatever?

also im sure you would need watercooling to overclock these as they will put out quite a bit of heat, imagine them on just a normal hs with a fan.. noise? no thanks.
 
^Well when the company that are making Alan Wake showed it off using a quad core, they had it clocked to 3.75Ghz :cool:
 
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