Core 2 Quadro me wants

[Fozzie]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/09/10/four_cores_on_the_rampage_uk/

How about that bad boy

[Bok]

Prices?

Would be worth waiting for this rather than a Core 2 I think..

Bok

[PCZ]

I promised myself one for christmas :D

[Fozzie]

treat myself for a Core 2 Duo for my birthday but as the quaddro goes on the same socket I've got an upgrade route and then move the duo onto another PC.

Cores more cores :lmao:

[jasong]

I'm confused.

I could've sworn I read somewhere that the quad-core chip wouldn't come out until January, but this bad boy is listed as coming out in mid-October.

If it comes out in mid-October, I definitely won't have enough money for it.

Is Intel coming out with any chips in January? I can't figure out where I got that date from.

[PCZ]

Jasong

It was meant for release in January 07.

Intel moved the release forward to beat AMD.
AMD will be releasing the 4x4 in the back end of the year.

I must say that i like the 'new' Intel.
The 'old' Intel would have never relesed a new chip that didn't new a whole new Chipset, Socket, RAM etc.

Chips such as these are bringing Supercomputing into the home. :clap:

I wouldn't want to be an AMD exec right now. :rotfl:

[Brucifer]

The sad thing about all this is that there still aren't any 64-bit clients out there for all these projects which is a bummer.

I like the X2's, just as I'm sure that either the Intel or AMD quad cores will be nice too. What would be nicer though would be some forward movement in the programming world to take advantage of these things, other than just using them as 2 or 4 thirty-two bit computers.

[jasong]

Jasong

It was meant for release in January 07.

Intel moved the release forward to beat AMD.
AMD will be releasing the 4x4 in the back end of the year.

I must say that i like the 'new' Intel.
The 'old' Intel would have never relesed a new chip that didn't new a whole new Chipset, Socket, RAM etc.

Chips such as these are bringing Supercomputing into the home. :clap:

I wouldn't want to be an AMD exec right now. :rotfl:
Not to be off-topic, even though it is:Pokes: has the definition of supercomputer changed over the years? If I'm not mistaken, the first supercomputer was actually slower then a Pentium 90MHz.

The definition has changed over the years. A lot.

[PCZ]

Yes it has changed a lot.
Technology marches onwards at an alarming pace.

I remember computers the size of houses with disc drives the size of dustbins.
They had to have large cooling towers outside.
Large wooden structures with water cascading through them.
There were huge magnetic tape drives for storage and punched tape for output.
Some really high tech computers had line printers :rotfl:

The above is not a joke they really were like that,
I used to be in awe of them.
My first encounter with one was at London Transport in the 80's and it was just as i described above.

Today we have more processing power in our PDA's than the supercomputers of 20 years ago.

Watch old SCi-FI and you willl see the reals of tape and flashing lights.
Not a VDU in site.

Todays super computers are clusters, nothing really high tech about them at all
They have lots of standard commodity CPU's running in Parallel.

[Digital Parasite]

Since the first Core 2 Quads will just be two Core 2 Duos sandwitched together, I wonder what kind of performance you can get with all 4 cores maxed out (ie: bus saturation problems).

Should be interesting to see how the new quad-core Opteron K7n's do, or whatever the next-gen one is.