AMD 6 Core

Yeah $309 for the 3.2GHz Black Edition and $209 for the locked multiplier 2.8 GHz model. Meh......there is absolutely no advantage to running 6 cores right now. Hell quad cores have been out for four years now and there just starting to be utilized, in most applications anyway.
 
Those are not compatible with the motherboard which support the the core 1366
 
Soldier4Real said:
Yeah $309 for the 3.2GHz Black Edition and $209 for the locked multiplier 2.8 GHz model. Meh......there is absolutely no advantage to running 6 cores right now. Hell quad cores have been out for four years now and there just starting to be utilized, in most applications anyway.
Click to expand...

If the application uses thread, windows takes care of it by adding thoses thread to each processor. Windows does manage it by itself. The application can choose where the thread should goes but Windows does already a good job on it.

I'm working on a big program at work and we will manage our threads by choosing which core will be processing the thread. The only reason we do that it is because we don't know why, the last processor always get less process than it should.
 
the msi gd-70 board was supposedly built to already be able to accept these processors they were already made. The date of manufacture on my quad phenom 965 is like 2008........
 
Beaver said:
Those are not compatible with the motherboard which support the the core 1366
Click to expand...
Last time I checked Intel & AMD were never compatiible

If you have a socket AM3; it will work with BIOS update. I read that the new CPU will work with 250 boards which is impressive for AMD.
 
Yeah I think he was a little confused but the new Intel 6 core processors are compatible with the 1366 socket.
 
Plain and simple is that this should set a good pricing benchmark for 6 core processors. Seems like a threat to Intel. CPU is getting crowded with some dual core chips still $200-$300
 
I would get one but I am more interested in getting a 4GBx2 kit before a CPU upgrade. Running server instances on 4gb doesn't cut it. Really would like to get (2)4GBx2 kits.
Well it seems there are no 1066mhz DDR2 2x4GB kits I can find. (under 500). So it may just be another 2x2GB kit :(((((((((
 
Seems like they need to focus more on IPC than core count....just seems kinda gimmiky. Anandtech summed it up nicely I thought:

"The better way to look at it is to ask yourself what sort of machine you're building. If you're building a task specific box that will mostly run heavily threaded applications, AMD will sell you nearly a billion transistors for under $300 and you can't go wrong. If it's a more general purpose machine that you're assembling, Lynnfield seems like a better option."

Hell, all this mulit-core stuff reminds me of the "ZOMG, I must have 64 bit goodness" days. Granted, it's helped with memory usage, but otherwise, "meh". Just my opinion (until software starts taking advantage).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top