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4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care?

Posted by timothy on from the 8-cores-a-dollar dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel has updated its processor price list earlier today. Common sense suggests that Intel may not care that much anymore whether its customers know what they are actually buying. One new six-core processor slides in between six-core and quad-core processors – and its sequence number offers no clues about cores, clock speed, and manufacturing process. If we remember the gigahertz race just a decade ago, it is truly stunning to see how the CPU landscape has changed. Today, processors carry sequence numbers that are largely meaningless."

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  1. More Cores, More Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you want to have a 4 inch penis? Don't you think a healthy 6 or 8 inches might be better?

    I have a quad core, which I'm confident will soon become the equivalent of a 4 inch penis. I'll have to upgrade my e-peen when it become affordable.

    Seriously though, if you like to game on your computer there is no such thing as too much power.

    1. Re:More Cores, More Power by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You say that like you have some personal experience with women looking elsewhere...

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    2. Re:More Cores, More Power by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

      My wife says it doesn't matter how many cores I have!

      Of course, my wife also said she wanted 10 inches... I just told her, "Screw you! I am NOT having it shortened!"

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    3. Re:More Cores, More Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      The flip side of that joke is: My wife said she wanted me to give her 12 inches and make it hurt, so I put it in 3 times and hit her with a hammer!

    4. Re:More Cores, More Power by AmigaHeretic · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think you made the wrong analogy.

      Do you want 1 big penis or 6 to 8 tiny ones?

    5. Re:More Cores, More Power by recoiledsnake · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just add 4 more cores to handle the core overhead.

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    6. Re:More Cores, More Power by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Jeremy Clarkson school of Computer Science.

      POWERRRRRRRR!

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    7. Re:More Cores, More Power by vlm · · Score: 4, Funny

      while background processes such as the OS, drivers, pr0n downloads, etc. run on the second core.

      More likely, given todays throw away mentality of, "if its infected, just throw it out and buy a new PC", using a 6-core processor means you get 5 "free" worm/virus infestations before you "have to" buy a new computer. Unless you run mac or linux of course.

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    8. Re:More Cores, More Power by shadowfaxcrx · · Score: 2, Funny

      Anyone with that attitude is almost guaranteed to not be running Linux.

      And almost guaranteed To be running Mac.

      At which point, you have however many cores Steve Jobs tells you to want.

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  2. No. by bertoelcon · · Score: 4, Funny

    The headline asked a question, I answered it.

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  3. Bring back the good old days of MIPS! by jayveekay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Misleading Indicator of Performance Statistic was the worthless number we had back then, and we liked it!

  4. Re:Not at all by Surt · · Score: 3, Funny

    And with a quad core system, you can run 3 crappy applications and still have a responsive system! A hex core system will let you run an outrageous 5 crappy applications!

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  5. Re:The Onion Said it Best. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You do know that you're allowed to write "fuck" on the Internet, right? You don't have to censor it like that.

  6. What about 6.40 cores? by The+Grim+Reefer2 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because 6.40 cores is all anyone will ever need.

  7. Re:They make perfect sense to a ph.d. professor by aquila.solo · · Score: 5, Funny

    THEY CAME FIRST for the marketing department, and I said "They're on the third floor, next to legal. Tell them I sent you."

  8. Intel says model numbers hurt, help the customer. by InvisiBill · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always loved posting this pic for a forum friend who worked at Intel.

    http://images.invisibill.net.nyud.net/intelmodelnumbers.jpg

  9. Re:It's in their best interests by electrosoccertux · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is actually what a lot of America is founded on-- think about it, in an ideal world a company would have a need, and they would go find the company that provides the solution.
    We do the opposite, we employ tons of marketers to convince people they need our product. What happens with a recession? Tons of them get laid off. With an extended recession? They don't get hired again.
    TIS A GOOD DAY TO

    BE AN ENGINEER.
    (sorry to those who were expecting a different ending)

  10. Re:It's in their best interests by TheEyes · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why I bought AMD for my last two builds; I can't understand Intel's naming scheme, so I don't bother to try. Both the red and blue CPU teams are fast enough now unless I'm building for a very specific need, so I just go with the one that requires the least brainpower to know what I'm getting... ...that way I can spend all my time figuring out what the different GPU numbers mean. :)