http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/ Engadget Comments for Intel's Core i7-980X Extreme Edition 'Gulftown' review roundup 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/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Argh, at 1000$ it's too much to justify. Especially considering there are zero performance gains. I'll either wait till it becomes really cheap or for the 8 cores expected to release in 2011. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
Nehalem-EX (the 8-core) one isn't a desktop processor, and will probably be considerably over $1k...]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
But wow...later this year, that price will drop.

Forget the Xeon, just get this.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/As with most anything in several months the non-Extreme models will trickle into the market with 6 cores and speeds most likely in line with the current i7 9xx models. These models will certainly be cheaper than $1000 and you can probably OC them to the same speed as this chip. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/To be honest, I would be totally over this if I didn't JUST finish building my computer with an i7 920. It's OCed pretty well (3.7GHz- optimal performance), so I'm not feeling bad about my rig just yet. My next upgrade will probably be in the GPU department so I can get a shiny new DX11 card. Texture bumping will really make games look sick- like Crysis 2 :O]]>Mar 11th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Thought so, unless they're saving that for the 8 core version next year]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
Please?]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Yeah I'm really excited to see some dude I don't know win the processor I'd kill for.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
conspiracy!!!!]]>Mar 27th 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
If you want to melt your laptop then go right ahead.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
It would melt... but for the momentary power... It would be pretty cool.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/I have a cousin who was working as a concept artist for offset software when intel bought them. don't really know how far along they are with project offset but he says they play a lot of street fighter there!]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
I can see the use for content creators, especially those who earn money from it and thus could easily justify a $1000 CPU upgrade even if it's not wholly necessary.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
It's for people that need to play Crysis while encoding Bluray rips in MKV but can't get behind in their Folding time.

Core i7 980x. Never Compromise.]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
and im buying 2. Just to be sure. ;)]]>Mar 11th 2010 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/all caps ftw]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
YOU DAMN RIGHT]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
I have the money in my hand.

And I hope the reason they haven't released it is because they are going to jam this CPU into the MacBook Air. And make it have a touch screen. That's all I ask. :)]]>Mar 11th 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
Guaranteed the new Mac Pros will be on the Gulftown platform and they may be announced as early as next week. You heard it here first.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Wake me when they get to 64 cores.]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
It could have a googol cores and your software still isn't going to take advantage of it. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
Think i might finally move up from my q9550 that i got running @ 3.61 with speedstep and C1E enabled.]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
I am waiting for the counterfeit edition on Newegg and see how many will get screwed.

lolen.]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
The problems that are not, will likely remain bottlenecked by serialized code paths and individual effort to manually write and rewrite for each new generation of cpus. And even then, given a genius coder with too much time on his hands, I doubt there are many apps that could take advantage of 12-16 cores aren't better served by GPGPU - especially if said GPGPU happens to support native C++.

Parallelism needs to be solved at the hardware level, so many small compute resources can combine into one large compute resource and split in many other ways with granularity, and automatic abstraction.

But I have no idea what a cpu architecture of that sort would even look like. I just know that new cpu generations will be exciting when the mass of unwashed bedroom coders can spew simple code and have it run faster every year through hardware upgrades alone.]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
Several problems with GPGPU:
1. Each core still isn't as flexible or has some of the more advanced instructions that a cpu has.
2. Loading resources to gpu would probably kill performance as the latency of PCI-E is much higher than RAM to CPU. That's why most GPGPU applications are best for highly mathematical processes with a limited data set.

Also, let me get this straight, you want people to create a much more parallelized (since gpu's have more cores) algorithms and software when people are already having a harder time with the 'easier' and well-known bounds of a cpu?]]>Mar 11th 2010 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/1.)Those extra instructions simply make things more efficient. The CPU processes one command that would require multiple commands if done otherwise. It doesn't add to flexibility. Everything can be done with +, -, /, *. It also reduces compiled code size. Both of these can be overcome with larger instruction caches and the shear flops of a GPGPU.
2.)Latency isn't a problem depending on problem and your computer hardware. For instance, if you have 1 GB of ram and 1 GB of GPU ram, you can simply feed all data required for the problem from the HDD/SSD through the system ram into the GPU ram. In this system, the ram to ram link is not the bottle neck, the HDD/SSD is. Anyways, if the GPU ram is used more like the system ram (certain cards have plenty of it), the ram to processor latency is not a problem for GPGPU. ]]>Mar 11th 2010 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
1. I'd like to see you do a recursion on a cuda device. It can do things, but not everything we're used to. Creating apps on a gpgpu requires a rethink of even some of the most basic things we could do with a cpu.

2. I have read before (I think it was on the ati's cal forums) that for every transfer you do, you do lose some of the performance as the device would waste cycles waiting for the transfer to complete. Incidentally the heaviest penalty is on the ram to vram copying as it passes through the PCI-E lane. If your application requires an insane amount of ram to vram copying then you could expect that you'd get nowhere near the advertised gflops.

Within the device though, transferring vram to caches is a lot faster. And if the data is always on the cache, then you'd probably get the gflops that were advertised.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
A dual-core chokes on this game and a quad-core is still not enough to tackle this game completely.]]>Mar 11th 2010 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/By then this will have trickled down to the lower end with the same overclocking ability AND it still beats native 8-core by four virtual cores, while consuming less power than your AMD chip.
Besides, the amount of system RAM in multiples of 3 instead of 2 is enough bragging right on its own.]]>Mar 11th 2010 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1245/1/

They got it up to 4.2GHz... Impressive looking processor!]]>Mar 11th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/
http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/falcon-northwest-mach-v/4505-3118_7-33995807.html?tag=smallCarouselArea.1]]>Mar 11th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/11/intels-core-i7-980x-extreme-edition-gulftown-review-roundup/Mar 11th 2010 11:18PM