Intel's Quad Core CPU Reviewed 286
Gr8Apes is one of many to let us know that Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a review of Intel's new Kentsfield quad core processor. From the article: "Even expert opinions are deeply divided, ranging from 'more cores are absolutely necessary' to 'why do I need something more than my five-year-old PC system?' Although the Core 2 quad-core processors are not expected to hit retail channels before October, Tom's Hardware Guide had the opportunity to examine several Core 2 Quadro models in the test labs. We would like to make it clear that these samples were not provided by Intel."
Re:Same old dilemma, new format. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Same old dilemma, new format. (Score:5, Funny)
but the real question is (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A BIG question??? (Score:4, Funny)
Kent's Farm is where Superboy grew up before he became Superman. It was a rights issue.
260 Watts! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One other thing (Score:5, Funny)
Based on Intel's recent naming conventions, I think they'll call it the "Core 2 Duo Duo", so as to generate as much confusion as possible
more power is often bad (Score:3, Funny)
Fans are noisy. This causes other people to accelerate your computer at 9.8 m/s/s. They can sneak up on you because you're going deaf from the noise.
Re:If not Intel... (Score:1, Funny)
>Then who were they provided by, exactly?
The chip must have been leaked (possibly deliberately). From the fine article: "On the left the Core 2 Duo and on the right the Core 2 Quadro. The serial number has been distorted to protect secrecy."
Fine, but it is the serial number on the left that has been redacted.
So either Tom's doesn't know its right from its left, or they've just blown their source.
Spare Capacity Usage..... (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe now I will have the ability to put all of my excess computing power into figuring out why women are the way they are instead of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence...............oh wait.....
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With four cores... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:With four cores... (Score:2, Funny)
How about, you can illegally download a DVD whilst watching another illegally downloaded DVD.
Or, more likely, you can play your pirate copy of Civ4 while compressing your CD collection so you can share it illegally over the internet.
Or, even more likely, you can watch illegally-downloaded pr0n on your monitor whilst watching more illegally-downloaded pr0n on your TV through your video-out.
I reckon with 4 cores hyper-threaded you could do all of the above at the same time. *swoon*
Bring on the more complicated architectures! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's the bandwidth stupid! (Score:4, Funny)
Surely it's not necessary to sacrifice openoffice.org, can't it just be tuned a bit to keep its processor useage down? Maybe it will be the bottleneck for a few more years to come, but eventually it will make better use of system resources, I'm sure. Or are you just a Microsoft Office fanboy?
Re:One other thing (Score:4, Funny)
Guess they should have called the platform Gettysburg.
FSB (Score:4, Funny)
Re:One other thing (Score:2, Funny)
... Next page.... (Score:2, Funny)
getting up
to the first
page of
the actual
charts,
I lost what
the art
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Re:One other thing (Score:5, Funny)
"Well, they've had twin-core - let's give them FOUR cores! And an extra one on the back!"
"It's... it's brilliant!"
Yes, Intel are the new Gillette. ;-)
Re:FSB (Score:1, Funny)
so we got a 1333-roy
Re:Same old dilemma, new format. (Score:5, Funny)
One core for physics calculations
One core for the game itself.
One core for OS, daemons and to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Sure nothing for any -current- game.
Re:One other thing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One other thing (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930 [theonion.com]
Re:If not Intel... (Score:3, Funny)
AMD.
Re:One other thing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Same old dilemma, new format. (Score:3, Funny)
From what I've heard it's more like well-done.