Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Reviews 197
An anonymous reader writes, "The first reviews of Intel's new quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 have emerged this morning and opinion is mixed. TrustedReviews were blunt: 'There is nothing new on display here. Very few people will need quad cores...' while Tech Report think 'many owners of this beast may be stuck waiting for new applications to arrive that use it to its fullest ability.' The boys at bit-tech managed to overclock to 3.47GHz and found the first killer application: quad-core support in the Source Engine! Nice!"
Re:Not too surprising (Score:3, Informative)
What else would you like it to do? It already distributes compiles very effectively across all the processors & cores you have. OS X itself does a fine job distributing load where possible. Of course, if people write single threaded CPU intensive apps, there's not a lot the compiler or the OS can do about that.
Are you looking for some way to have the compiler extract parallelism from the code implicitly without the developer having to write multithreaded code? That would be nice I'll admit.
Re:Very Few Need Multicore? (Score:3, Informative)
Servers are not desktops. Buying the fastest machine doesn't get you the fastest experience.
Google grew up buy chaining thousands of cheapo second hand caseless PC-s in a cluster. If they decided to spend their money on bleeding edge technology they'd probably have 3x faster servers, but twice less total computing power.
Especially since a huge bottleneck in servers are RAM and HDD IO (considering we don't put bandwidth in the equation which curiously is the first bottleneck a common server hits).
Re:Not too surprising (Score:3, Informative)