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Quad Core
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tastyweat said:
still a very good chip though. Even if they had a native design based on the conroe architecture, there would be no big performance boast at all, only be like 2%. They'd need a whole new architecture if they wanted to do a native design that would actually bring out about a worthy performance difference,
Conroe's a very efficient architecture which is designed not to overload the FSB too heavily, which is why the Quadcore works as well as it does. However a native Quad would still be more efficient, and intel are already working on the next generation processor interface.
Its called CSI, and intel will release it when they feel its required (in otherwords, they are developing the tools, and ammunition required to answer back to future development and performance attacks from the AMD camp)
Intel are also experimenting with other ideas, one example was a single package which contained 2 chips. The northbridge, and cpu. This is quite a different idea to amd's integrated memory controller, but from an end users point of view, it would mean the same.
Its called CSI, and intel will release it when they feel its required (in otherwords, they are developing the tools, and ammunition required to answer back to future development and performance attacks from the AMD camp)
Intel are also experimenting with other ideas, one example was a single package which contained 2 chips. The northbridge, and cpu. This is quite a different idea to amd's integrated memory controller, but from an end users point of view, it would mean the same.
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actually ive read on a lot of articles that true quad core chips would be much better performing than 2 dual cores stuck together.
Perfect_Chaos said:
Would largely depend on how it was implemented and utilitised. The main disadvantage of the Kentsfield process is that it's effectively two chips (split into a further two chips each), and if you have to pass data from one to the other, that becomes a problem with a slow connection. That can make for some interesting scheduling issues that you could avoid using a true quad core setup.
A true quad core setup is likely to be faster, but how much would depend entirely on how well the scheduling and optimisation was set up in both.
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the quad core is infact not a quad core. It is a psuedo quad core which other than benchmarks ie sisoft sandra, actually under performs compared to an x6800 extreme dual core. In gaming etc the x6800 xtreme destroys the quad core. The quad core will be useful when desktop apps that can utilise them actually appear. However the first genuine quad core will be AMD early next year. The chip of choice for the moment is without doubt x6800 xtreme dual core - the fastest you can buy as a consumer.
Yes, get core2duo chips.
Yes, get core2duo chips.
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YEH
experience said:
So are you going to back that up with anything? Given the choice between the X6800 and the QX6700 I think you would be mental not to get the quad and the future-proofing it offers. I don't know why anyone would want a X6800 unless they are using some extreme form of cooling.
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In gaming and other applications , yes.
and i said
"The quad core will be useful when desktop apps that can utilise them actually appear. However the first genuine quad core will be AMD early next year"
and i said
"The quad core will be useful when desktop apps that can utilise them actually appear. However the first genuine quad core will be AMD early next year"
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experience said:
it doesnt matter whether its four cores in one die or two dies with two cores each, its still four cores in one cpu package so it is still a quad core.