Intel Rolls Out Double-Quad-Core Platform For Gamers

[Jitway]

Unlike most Intel components, today's new entries were designed to fit together: A pair of Core 2 Extreme QX9775 quad-core processors are designed to work in tandem, using Intel's D5400XS desktop motherboard with twin sockets. Right now, and probably into the foreseeable future, that's the only way these components will work together.

 

Each processor has an MSRP of $1,499 (its street price may be a little less in a few months' time), and remember, you can't do with just one. And the D5400XS motherboard will sell for $649.

 

A bit pricey for me but I can just image how this would fly with about 8gb of memory.

 

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[Tynvar]

It's a good option if the games are somehow optimized to use 2 cpus. Otherwise the double quad would as somewhat faster than a normal one in games IMO. I mean it would be better but not enough for that money.

[Wizard]

Unless you use Linux, Windows XP 64bit or Vista, 8GB is nothing but a waste of money.

[ken_cinder]

Unless you use Linux, Windows XP 64bit or Vista, 8GB is nothing but a waste of money.

 

Addendum: Make that a 64bit OS in general. 32bit systems CANNOT address beyond 4GB, minus any memory mapped devices (Pretty much everything these days). The more expansion cards etc you have, the more of that 4GB address space your physical RAM loses to make use of.

[Shibathedog]

Yeah this is the Skulltrail platform, but Intel decided "Dual Processor Platform for Gamers" was a better name or whatever retarded name they gave it.

 

Anyway this is pretty much another e-male organ product, in real world benchmarks, you get a small performance gain for a LOT of money. No flocking WAY is it worth it. It rapes for things like SuperPi, folding, and artificial benchmarks, but for games its full of fail.

 

EDIT: Remember, Games are barely using Dual, yet alone Quad cores yet. So what the flock is the point in 8 cores? Bunch of unusable garbage, especially since no one is going to develop for this since its so out of reach for most people.

 

EDIT AGAIN: Look at this crap http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/08/int...rt_3/page9.html Definitely worth over 5 grand isn't it?

[Tynvar]

I see this as more horse power on car with walmart tires. What's the point on having so much raw power if you can't use it.

[ken_cinder]

If targeted towards gamers, is absolutely useless. But those of you saying games can't use these number of cores, you know nothing.

Any 1 process can be spread across multiple cores. It is however only truly beneficial, when a program can spawn multiple threads on separate cores.

 

Other than a bogus cash-in attempt by Intel, this would be VERY beneficial to an artist/video editor etc. Someone who has need of having many apps open at once. You could be encoding video on 1 or 2 cores, while having another core working with an art app and another 2 cores working on rendering something.

 

No real benefit to the avg user OR gamers at all.

[Shibathedog]

well thats kind of what I meant. I just didn't elaborate.

 

and it IS marketed towards gamers, thats why its retarded.

[Alpha]

Where is the Pentium 5 dammit? Enough of this quadruple double triple core mumbo jumbo. Let's make it a little easier please.

[Wizard]

Where is the Pentium 5 dammit? Enough of this quadruple double triple core mumbo jumbo. Let's make it a little easier please.

You can think of it as P5s. Soley because it seems like after Pentium D (the small line after 4) came this series. Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad. Not that hard because if P5s were out, it would be the exact same thing, P5 Double Core and P5 Quad Core.

[Alpha]

Where is the Pentium 5 dammit? Enough of this quadruple double triple core mumbo jumbo. Let's make it a little easier please.

You can think of it as P5s. Soley because it seems like after Pentium D (the small line after 4) came this series. Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad. Not that hard because if P5s were out, it would be the exact same thing, P5 Double Core and P5 Quad Core.

How about Double Core = P5 and Quad Core = P6 and Double Quad Core = P7? At least it makes it better to understand by increasing numbers -> increasing performance.

[Wizard]

How about Double Core = P5 and Quad Core = P6 and Double Quad Core = P7? At least it makes it better to understand by increasing numbers -> increasing performance.

Because they'd all be in the same family. The Core 2 series a family of CPU all to it's own. Similar to how the Core series is it's own family and the Pentium D and M is as well. They all handle instructions differently is what seperates all the families of CPU from each other. What Core 2 is being basically is Pentium 3 was to desktop computers, it's a new generation of CPU. Like they could keep using the Pentium brand, but unlike nVidia who made the transisation from the FX series back to more popular Thousand series, Core 2 has made a name for it all on its own and everyone knows about that. I don't see people talking about Pentiums anymore, I see them talking about Core Duo (even though their wrong in saying Core Duo, it's Core 2 Duo) or just plainly saying "Dual Core."

[LoRd_SnOw]

I apologize but I might be taking this offtopic for a moment.

 

Theres something that bothers me with these new processors. Now I know this might sound absurd. But please bare with me. How come a centrino core duo isn't equivalent or more powerful than a pentium 4? I've ran some test.. The only thing I've noticed is that the centino core duo has some extra stuff but it isn't faster than a p4. Centrino core duo clocks at 1.83ghz (which is as far as i was told it could go) and most P4's goes above 2.00ghz. (Now this is where it sounds obsurd..) How can this be if a 7yr old P4 is faster than a 1-2yr centrino core duo? or maybe im seeing this the wrong way? I mean 1.83ghz doesnt seem much... I imagine practicly all window live games would run like crap with a processor clocking at 1.83ghz and maybe a much faster performance change to a 2.00ghz processor? If you would like photos of what I got with CPU-z on both processors, let me know.

[Wizard]

I apologize but I might be taking this offtopic for a moment.

 

Theres something that bothers me with these new processors. Now I know this might sound absurd. But please bare with me. How come a centrino core duo isn't equivalent or more powerful than a pentium 4? I've ran some test.. The only thing I've noticed is that the centino core duo has some extra stuff but it isn't faster than a p4. Centrino core duo clocks at 1.83ghz (which is as far as i was told it could go) and most P4's goes above 2.00ghz. (Now this is where it sounds obsurd..) How can this be if a 7yr old P4 is faster than a 1-2yr centrino core duo? or maybe im seeing this the wrong way? I mean 1.83ghz doesnt seem much... I imagine practicly all window live games would run like crap with a processor clocking at 1.83ghz and maybe a much faster performance change to a 2.00ghz processor? If you would like photos of what I got with CPU-z on both processors, let me know.

Centrino (and in turn, the whole Core 2 series) allows more sets of instructions to run by means of lower power consumption rates. For example, my Core 2 Duo E6750 can out preform an older P4, such as yours, on stock, which is 2.66 GHz/333. In fact, it is very possible, since I underclocked my E6750 too 1.6 GHz/333 multiplyer, I still managed to handle Crysis pretty well. It is all to do how they handle instructions. Since the world wants to be greener, lower power consumption rates + handles better then older CPUs at lower clock speeds = win!

 

Since then I've overlocked my E6750 to 3.0GHz (from the original 2.66) Runs flawlessly with no probs. And i'm running on 550W of power too. No voltage increse required. I've heard people have gotten up to 3.69GHz on stock as well.