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Intel's Quad Core CPU Reviewed
Gr8Apes is one of many to let us know that Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a review of Intel's new Kentsfield quad core processor. From the article: "Even expert opinions are deeply divided, ranging from 'more cores are absolutely necessary' to 'why do I need something more than my five-year-old PC system?' Although the Core 2 quad-core processors are not expected to hit retail channels before October, Tom's Hardware Guide had the opportunity to examine several Core 2 Quadro models in the test labs. We would like to make it clear that these samples were not provided by Intel."
Gosh darn, you ended the flame war before it had a chance to start. Shame on you!
My apologies. The jury will disregard my previous comment. Proceed with flames...
how many FPS can I get in quakeworld? With the +1000 FPS it would give, i'm sure I would be able to bunnyhop all the way across the 2fort5 outdoors area!
Kent's Farm is where Superboy grew up before he became Superman. It was a rights issue.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
260 Watts! We've been looking at the wrong factors - it appears that global warming is related to Moore's law.
Based on Intel's recent naming conventions, I think they'll call it the "Core 2 Duo Duo", so as to generate as much confusion as possible
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Typically this requires more fans. Fans are moving parts, thus likely to fail. Your super-fast computer could crash because of a 13-cent Chinese fan. Dead computers only go fast when you drop them out the window.
Fans are noisy. This causes other people to accelerate your computer at 9.8 m/s/s. They can sneak up on you because you're going deaf from the noise.
>"We would like to make it clear that these samples were not provided by Intel"
>Then who were they provided by, exactly?
The chip must have been leaked (possibly deliberately). From the fine article: "On the left the Core 2 Duo and on the right the Core 2 Quadro. The serial number has been distorted to protect secrecy."
Fine, but it is the serial number on the left that has been redacted.
So either Tom's doesn't know its right from its left, or they've just blown their source.
Hmmmmm.....
Maybe now I will have the ability to put all of my excess computing power into figuring out why women are the way they are instead of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence...............oh wait.....
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Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
There's an ad for PC World or Currys or something where the salesguy explains to some students that having an Intel (bing-bong-bing-bong) dual core processor means it can do two things at once - like sending an email and downloading music!
As a sofware developer, I can't help but think the move to multiple cores is a good thing. In my mind, anything that makes software development MORE complex can only improve my employability.
Surely it's not necessary to sacrifice openoffice.org, can't it just be tuned a bit to keep its processor useage down? Maybe it will be the bottleneck for a few more years to come, but eventually it will make better use of system resources, I'm sure. Or are you just a Microsoft Office fanboy?
Four core and seven years ago chipzilla brought forth on this on this die, a new processor, conceived in vanity, and dedicated to the proposition that all CPUs shall require a nuclear power plant to function.
Guess they should have called the platform Gettysburg.
They should have made the FSB 4 Mhz faster. That'd just be too cool. Fight back AMD! Don't take that shit!
It'll render graphics and give you a close shave at the same time!
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"Well, they've had twin-core - let's give them FOUR cores! And an extra one on the back!"
"It's... it's brilliant!"
Yes, Intel are the new Gillette. ;-)
Meta will eat itself
One core dedicated to enemy AI.
One core for physics calculations
One core for the game itself.
One core for OS, daemons and to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
Sure nothing for any -current- game.
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Unfortunately, it's not MACH, it's ix86.
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I hear AMD is going with 5 cores.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930
*tinfoil hat*
AMD.
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
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Hell is rare?
From what I've heard it's more like well-done.
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