Intel Principle Engineer wants to Know if You would Buy 12-Core Extreme Processor

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Intel Principle Engineer wants to Know if You would Buy 12-Core Extreme Processor ‹ Hardware-360

This is one hell of a tease from Intel. Today their Principal Engineer Francios Piedneol , tweeted the question ?Would you buy a 12 cores CPU Extreme Edition Unlocked at the price of the 12 cores Xeon? If so Re-twit?

The question could be referring to the next generation Haswell Extreme processors, but those are sometime off and expected to have 8-cores, not 12. However, it also could be more of a rhetorical question to see what extreme desktop users want, as Intel has looked at the desktop market and made the conscious decision that 8 and 12 core processors are not warranted at this time. I disagree and would love to throw a 12-core (24-threaded) Ivy Bridge Extreme processor into my X79 system.

Of course a 12-core Intel XEON processor would cost around $2500, so most people couldn?t afford them, but there is a segment of the market that has deep pockets and would shell out for a 12-core (24-threaded) processor, even if it cost over $2000. And the cost comes out to just $100 a thread, so it isn?t unreasonable.

If you agree with me let Intel know by re-twitting here: https://twitter.com/FPiednoel/status/396656918975889408/photo/1
The tweets are only at 52 lets get them to 1000!
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The question is an obvious yes for those who qualify to answer the question. Anyone who can afford the $2500 bucks for the Xeon and crazy enough to build a PC with it rather than a server would rather have the unlocked extreme edition.
 
Interior isn't relevant with processors, basically they all do 1+1=10 :-P .

But really, for games this is almost completely useless at the moment. The only game that benefits from anything beyond dual core that I've seen lately is BF4?
 
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The only game that benefits from anything beyond dual core that I've seen lately is BF4?
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As true as this be you would never want to run BF3 on a dual core. Its true the above CPU is not only useless but more cores will have to be utilized to make up for per core performance.

However, every god damn mother fucking time people forget one thing. No one has ever JUST runs BF3 or X game. Your running windows and background processes. Your running teamspeak, punkbuster, origin. All in all probably a mild 10% at best. But some of us are recording now how the hell am I going to record well on a i3 or a FX-4xxx using Afterburner, Playclaw or Fraps or most anything out there? The i3 and the FX4xxx series are actually performing better than a true dual core would but still a bit lacking. Basically any time you want to so anything intensive while gaming extra cores at the same frequency is a huge payoff. I like to be able to encode footage and still game I mean who wants to stay up later to do that?

But the only real reason you can't say a quad core does not benifit is if the cpu has the per core performance, you take that away hell Bad Company 2 will use 4 threads. The main thread is usually higher than the first but it would love a Core 2 Quad over a Duo any day. There was a reason why AMD fan's were eating up quads back then :p
 
Fuck yeah if...they drop that price down. It's hard to find a market for something too pricey for the majority of people If you want it to sell, price it to sell. Sounds simple, right? With tech companies...not so much.
 
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