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Quad-core is On the Way

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Thought Two Cores was enough? It isn’t. Really. Intel confirmed today that they will be releasing a 2.67 GHz quad-core Core 2 Extreme this holiday season. Drooling, yet? The processor is named Kentsfield and will host two dual-core Conroe cores on one package. The processor will be beefed up, increasing its L2 cache from 4MB to 8MB, which will serve to make multi-tasking much more seamless. Of course, all of these revisions will increase wattage, but only to around 110W–which is slightly more than what it took Inteal to power its spaceship Pentiums. These processors will still use the 975X chipset with FSB1066, though the socket was not mentioned.

Four cores, more cache, for less power than the flagship AMD processor? I’m in.









http://crunchgear.com/2006/08/17/quad-core-is-on-the-way/
 
This really is old news, and no I'm not drooling.

Both AMD and Intel are releasing quad core cpu's, and tbh for the average home user, its little more than a gimmick at this point in time.
 
you forgot the Intel quad core cpu will be just 2 x Core2 cpus wacked onto one chip just like there 1st dual core chip.

AMD will be a native quad core from the ground up.

So ill wait and see for benchmarks of them both berfore i buy.

But as said, its of little use when 1st release. dual core is of little use as it is as there aren't a lot of multi-threaded applications on the market
 
I disagree, dual core is proving very useful for me, I can finally do several things at once without my pc grinding to a halt. Quad core is another matter though, as I'm already seeing some bottlenecking due to the hard disks holding things up. And no, an average consumer won't see much use for quad core, how many mass market machines come with a RAID 0 setup or even raptors?
 
rar nigle said:
I disagree, dual core is proving very useful for me, I can finally do several things at once without my pc grinding to a halt. Quad core is another matter though, as I'm already seeing some bottlenecking due to the hard disks holding things up. And no, an average consumer won't see much use for quad core, how many mass market machines come with a RAID 0 setup or even raptors?
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Yeah i found dual core a breath of fresh air tbh as you say the lag has gone, but like you i do get harddrive holding things up aswell which is frustrating.
 
No rush for quad-core here at all.
Dual-core has made a slight difference and a couple of applications have benfitted.
Applications (workstation) and games are only just starting to wake up to dual-core let alone four.

I certainly won't be looking at quad core for at least a year.
Mainly because I've gone the Conroe route but until I see my current system getting seriously bogged down then I don't see the need for more upgrades.

Next on the agenda for me will be DX10 graphics.
 
Been priced at $999 which is still about £500ish-550

Gonna be tad expensive but it would be nice just to get one killer pc for Vista, Quad core/4gig DDR2/DX10 1gig card..... that should be enuff for BF2142 and ST:Legacy eh? :p
 
dual core is pretty useful - i have about 4 multithreaded applications that are now twice as fast, but they are very cpu intensive so another double of speed really won't make that much difference anyway - a 10 or 100 fold increase is what we need ;)
 
Digital Punk said:
This really is old news, and no I'm not drooling.

Both AMD and Intel are releasing quad core cpu's, and tbh for the average home user, its little more than a gimmick at this point in time.
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I would have it for running "home user" stuff
 
yeah as you can see from my sig, I don't have dual core, so quad core + DX10 is my next upgrade.

the question is: Quad core AMD or intel ?
 
I'm not getting excited over this, AFAIK it's aimed at enterprise applications, much like woodcrest, so overclocking potential/enthusiast motherboard support will probably be poor. It's a Skt771 LGA, isn't it?

The processor will be beefed up, increasing its L2 cache from 4MB to 8MB
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Doesn't this go without saying? If it's 2 conroe cores on one die, then total L2 Cache will double to 8MB, or am I misunderstanding this?
 
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