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Intel V8 Octa-Core System, Full Performance Tests

Posted by Zonk on from the friday-afternoon-spec-oggling dept.

MojoKid writes "In the April time frame, details of Intel's dual-socket 8-core system dubbed 'V8' became available but only preliminary performance numbers were shown. The platform consists of quad-core Xeon processors in an Intel 5000X chipset-based motherboard, along with FBDIMM (Fully Buffered DIMM) serial memory. A follow-on article at HotHardWare goes into significantly more detail on the platform and showcases many more performance metrics on a Windows Vista 64-bit installation. The POV-Ray and Cinebench 95 benchmark numbers alone are something to smile about. 'Intel's V8 isn't about promoting a platform as much as it is a show of strength and a glimpse of things to come. What V8 and QuadFX show is that both Intel and AMD are on a path to offering true, enthusiast-class, dual-socket platforms. And that's a good thing. Perhaps AMD is a little further down the path thanks to a more tweaker-friendly motherboard in the QuadFX-compatible Asus L1N64-SLI WS, but until consumers have more motherboards to choose from and perhaps quad-core processors from AMD, we can't very well declare that the time for QuadFX has arrived. One motherboard does not a platform make.'"

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  1. Re:Why now? by andy314159pi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I already sold several dual quad-core systems the last couple of months, build to order. This week I sold a similar system (with this exact same motherboard) but with 16GB of memory instead of 4. Luckily it's not going to run Vista ;-)
    But it appears to be one of the few machines that supports the minimum hardware requirements of Vista.
  2. Top Ten Uses For Your New Cores by DysenteryInTheRanks · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the Home Office in Bangalore India!

    Top Ten Uses For Your New Processor Cores:

    10. Vista (Starter, Ultimate Turbo Champion, etc). If this applies to you, stop reading list here, all your new cores are belong to Microsoft.

    9. Time to install Web 2.1, baby!!

    8. Full-screen full-motion porn on all three of your 30-inch computer monitors while running global warming computer model in background

    7. Terrorism.

    6. Receiving chocolate cake over the Internet.

    5. As a tool to help you personally become a more productive worker, engaged citizen and attentive spouse and parent, rather than as a weird techno-fetishistic ends unto itself. Ha ha, just kidding!! LOLzzz.

    4. Dedicated core for Safari installs/updates.

    3. Department Homeland Security monitoring/spyware (federal statutory requirement)

    2. AT&T Broadband/RIAA monitoring/spyware (in EULA)

    1. Wife's monitoring/spyware (in the vows)