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(the only way to get these quad cores to even flinch is to convert videos)]]>Jun 11th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
Yeah, and we'll never need more than 640k of RAM. Give developers more power, and they'll find a way to make use of it.]]>Jun 11th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
Computers are at an absolutely archaic state right as as far as user interface goes. They're extremely complicated to the average person and totally unintuitive. A keyboard and mouse may be second nature to us, but I argue that it's only because we don't know any different. I imagine computers in the not too distant will be controlled more by motion and voice than anything else and be FAR more able to predict what the user wants to happen without being told explicitly how to get there. The Ai and voice/motion recognition required to accurately (and quickly) do this would eat up the puny processing power avoidable in today's computers. As someone already stated, the only reason today's hardware is enough to satiate today's needs is because that's what's available. It's like when USB 3.0 was announced and everyone was saying "why would we need that? no device available requires that kind of throughput". Well genius, of course no current device requires that! Why would someone make a device that can't work with available technology??

"Build it, and they will come." ]]>Jun 11th 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Xeon_microprocessors

]]>Jun 11th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/"But Dunnington isn't a monolithic die like Istanbul :) "
Wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#7400-series_.22Dunnington.22

Although this new 32nm Westmere hexa-core will blow the Xeon 7400/Dunnington out of the water]]>Jun 11th 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
Question is, what is this Magny-Cours stuff I've been hearing about? 12 cores?!

:'( I have two.

Damned servers are gonna take over the world soon. SKYNET I TELL YA! SKYNET!!!]]>Jun 11th 2009 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
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But you make a good general point. Very few games optimize for more than two cores. much less 4+. However I think that will change soon, as there has a a been a steady flood of cheap quad cores getting put in PCs, so it's only a matter of time I think.]]>Jun 11th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
I'd like to convert videos in the background while I'm gaming for both a Zune HD and 720p from it's 480p, 1080i, and 1080p source. I'd like to have the option to have psychotic physics calculations running in my games. I would like to run two OS's on a VM, assigning two cores to one and four to the other.

Now... if this processor is more than $1,000, I would probably end up going with a high end video card and stick with four cores.]]>Jun 11th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
These 6-core "Westmere-EP" chips are made for 2-socket servers and workstations, and are built on Intel's new 32nm process.

Around the same time, the REAL beast should be out, the 45nm Nehalem-EX for quad-socket and larger server, which is an eight-core chip with quad-channel memory, quad QPI, and 24MB of L3 cache.]]>Jun 11th 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
Actually, westmere is the code name for the 32nm process, not an individual chip.

I'm guessing this is gulftown.

These will probably serve in the 3000 series servers, but they are also targeted at high end desktop users.

This is the step up from the i7 975. ]]>Jun 11th 2009 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
The Nehalem range is very impressive I was wondering how our friends at Intel would top the Core 2 Duo's but the i7's have been very impressive.

Hopefully this comes in at a grand with a price drop for all the quad coroes.]]>Jun 11th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3513
I hope its 32nm Gulftown ahead of schedule.]]>Jun 11th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/]]>Jun 11th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/
BTW, perhaps you can introduce me to these social circles where a faster tech has the assumption of getting one laid.]]>Jun 11th 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/six-core-intel-nehalem-processors-in-the-works/Jun 11th 2009 4:46PM