http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
Crysis 2 here we come :)]]>Nov 2nd 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
Woo?]]>Nov 2nd 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
A high-end could be considered a quad CPU quad Core Xeon, 128GB ECC RAM, perhaps liquid cooled, 3 Quadros or top-of-the-line GeForces (or ATI for those who prefer), IoDrive + RAID-1 0 SSDs for the OS and a BD burner, of course.

Now that'd be a killer machine, but again, they wouldn't sell a single one to the pube-nerds with only pocket-money to spare + their college savings.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
That's not top of the line, that's overkill.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
Form over function always wins in my book.]]>Nov 4th 2009 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
http://www.thenextbench.com/t5/Desktops/Omen-Chassis-Build-Out/m-p/48020#M7957]]>Nov 3rd 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Maybe because they don't want jizz on any if the internals?]]>Nov 2nd 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
8GB of RAM in a machine of those specs would be an obvious bottleneck.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
My PC has 2 and i have almost no problems and will upgrade to tipple channel 3GB kit and will solve it. Maybe 6GB is also OK. But 8+ not yet...]]>Nov 2nd 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
You've obviously never dabbled in any music/video recording/editing as such tasks routinely exceed memory limits for personal desktops. Why else would companies like Pixar require massive server farms to make even a 10 minute short? Just because your applications are designed to work on lower-end PCs, does not mean there are no applications that utilize larger memory reserves.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
Uhhh, they have server farms for processing power, not RAM. When you do 3d rendering you do 1-2 frames at a time (max of about 100-500MB per frame) then the frame is written to the harddrive.

Audio...maybe...ive never had a multi-track take up more then 3gigs (all audio live loaded) once again you are mostly dealing with Processor being fast enough to run the real-time effects on each of the loaded tracks (once again nothing to do with the total ram amount)]]>Nov 2nd 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
Don't extrapolate your experience from using the PC at your parents' basement to be representative of the upper limits of computational requirements.

PS. The 49GB simulation job I've been running since Thursday says "hi"]]>Nov 2nd 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsDMn1krXbM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxz3k2zQJI&feature=related

Funny thing is, I have one of those sitting in my office gathering dust. I've been trying to figure out something interesting to turn that horrible acrylic case, with too many handles, into.

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A supercomputer is not defined by what was state of the art over a decade ago. But then the GPU guys would have to find a different marketing approach ;-)]]>Nov 2nd 2009 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/
Too bad in the creative industry if your not using a Mac they think you are unprofessional...though I would love to have one of these in the office and put the mac snobs in their place :).]]>Nov 2nd 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/maingear-unveils-core-i7-packin-shift-your-own-personal-super/Nov 2nd 2009 12:03PM