Why waste time with Core Duo......how about Core Quad-o hehehe....KENTSFIELD tested

yes that's right

first ES CPUs are arriving at Xtreme Systems already

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1527913


CPUZ doesn't recognise the new core yet

TESTER: coolaler who else

 

oh my

I WANT ONE...........that's exactly what i'll be needing it for............HD Video number crunching TOTAL drool

 

Trying my best to secure one... Intel's still pretty tight about them.

 

Damn...I might just skip Core 2 Duo and just hold on for Kentsfield.
(I got about AUD$1300 saved.)

Would be awesome to see how much Fluent (CFD app) scales with 4-cores.

 

Great find
So we will be able to encode while gaming

 

I think AMD just got pwned, 4x.

 

Quad core!

 

With pre-released stuff not coming out for 12 months? Major pwnage.

Looks good, I can't wait to see this stuff with Quad-SLI and DX10 gear. Also, can't wait to see what AMD come up with too

 

how much will these bad-asses be going for in AUS? couldnt see a price anywhere in that thread.

 

I would have to guess... $1000+ easily tho since decent dual cores are ~$500 - $700. Depends on which stock speed you're talking about also.

 

Im still just laughing about the thread title - Core Quad-o

 

So, are these chips going to handle the heat well? For cores under one IHS is a lot of energy in a very confined space or has the new process and architecture taken care of this?

 

I haven't looked at Memron at all but I'd hoep there's quite a bit of L2 to go with those quad cores. 4 cores != 4x performance.

 

ZOMG imagine with HT on the cores.

 

FSB will be the biggest bottleneck, even if it comes out with 1333Mhz FSB.

 

I would have thought that with Conroe, there would be no HT due to the shorter pipelines???

Besides... dual core is FAR more efficient than HT, so why bother now that everything (perormance based) is going dual core. Yes i know the latest Extreme edition P4 had dual core AND HT, but that was still the prescott core, so it had the longer pipelines to be able to cope with HT

Disclaimer: Some terms/specs may be wrong (havent followed Intel much recently)

 

I don't think so, the architecture doesn't require much bandwidth. This can be seen with the limited performance boost with higher FSBs against lower FSBs.

I'll take you up on that disclaimer, Conroe's pipeline isn't as long as the prescott, but it is still pretty darn long, comparative with the northwood. We know it's at least 3 stages longer than Yonah and Yonah is 14, so we're looking at a 17 stage min.

 

it's true....that's something AMD will woop Intel in next year as they've already put out a lot of info about the new HT and all

 

it'll be too late for AMD then. they need it out now, not this weak ass DDR2 platform