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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. Re:More Cores, More Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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.

    nah, 4 core = better STM or strokes per minute. why waste all that time and energy on longer strokes; when shorter strokes yield the same results!

  2. Re:More Cores, More Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    length doesn't matter only girth does

  3. Re:More Cores, More Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Try networking, ie with a girl, and you will see why longer is better.

  4. Re:More Cores, More Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's what women say to guys with a small penis. If the length is small, it looks like the girth is bigger even when it isn't. The truth is that they like it hard, long and tick; if you can't offer it, they'll look for it elsewhere.

  5. Re:More Cores, More Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wouldn't. I'm a Mormon.

  6. Fuck your dreams. Computers are for GAMES & PO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moar liek simulating the liquid flow of blood running out of a zerglings ass as a gay bestiality Terran marine pulls his mechanical hemipenis out to simulate the liquid flow of his hot nano-semen jizzbombing the thin divide of skin between the zerg's ass and clit-penis (hermaphrotism is the bio-efficient redundancy that zerg have been accustomed).

  7. Stuff Intel they support fascism in Israel by akayani · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Boycott Intel, boycott Israel! Switching to AMD processors is too easy and sends a strong message that the 9 shot dead, the 5 shot dead and throw overboard and the 34 wounded. Then we had the media lie of forged video, $1M in stolen equipments, the refusal of the New Zealand lead UN investigation...

    So stuff Intel and buy AMD.

  8. I do care. I do. by ciderbrew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I now want spend money on every bit of my machine. The main problem is all the games I want to buy have some sort of DRM. So there has been no need to upgrade as I WILL NOT buy drm games that would spark an upgrade. I’ve saved a fortune on games and parts so far. So DRM hurts hardware sale too.