Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Reviews

An anonymous reader writes, "The first reviews of Intel's new quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 have emerged this morning and opinion is mixed. TrustedReviews were blunt: 'There is nothing new on display here. Very few people will need quad cores...' while Tech Report think 'many owners of this beast may be stuck waiting for new applications to arrive that use it to its fullest ability.' The boys at bit-tech managed to overclock to 3.47GHz and found the first killer application: quad-core support in the Source Engine! Nice!"

Comments

Re:We do need quad cores

[joekampf]

Lets also not forget about those of us that do any kind of multi-tier development. I run the following while doing my development: 1) Eclipse 2) WebLogic 3) Apache 4) MQ 5) Outlook 6) Trillian 7) Music Match 8) FireFox I would love to run more. Like Oracle. I can't however because my 3 GHz machine just can't handle the load. Joe

Re:Mandatory 640 KB comment

[porkThreeWays]

Exactly. As computers get faster people will just move on to higher level languages that may not be as efficient. 5 years ago I don't think it was realistic to expect consumers to pay for a GUI based python program. Today, as long as there is an icon on their desktop, it's no problem. Faster hardware means the ability to use higher level languages and spend more time solving real world problems rather than specifics of the language.

I need Quads to become common...

[jbeaupre]

Because once they are, the duals I want will become the cheap alternative.

Re:FP

[Anonymous Coward]

"if it says more than 4 then you have a use for quad-core"

Odds are most of those threads are sleeping and a quad core will be no faster than .. well a zero core!

Re:FP

[kimvette]

Even Joe Sixpack will benefit. His MSIE will have one browser and his minimum of three rootkits/spambots/spyware background processes will run on the other three cores without bringing his machine to a screeching halt.