Anyone going to try a Tri core?

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Kendrak

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Just wondering if anyone was going to give one of these a try?

Also if the thread stays alive long enough, post how it folds.

I would wager it will be priced like a E4500 (maybe a bit more) but have better folding results because of the third core.

 
I could see a use for it in this way. SMP on two cores and 1 core to use for GPU folding. However, I doubt it will be priced well enough to make it worth it. Time will tell.
 
For me it totally depends on price....since I have my quad as a workstation, and a dual in my fileserver, the only real in between i could see is maybe an HTPC of sorts. now, I've been looking at building one of them, but if the price on the Tris isn't right, I could likely go with a better dual or another quad, rather than a tri

 
I'm looking to build a dedicated folding rig or possibly a farm, so depending on the power consumption, cost, and performance, i may give it a shot :)
 
schenksmill said:
For me it totally depends on price....since I have my quad as a workstation, and a dual in my fileserver, the only real in between i could see is maybe an HTPC of sorts. now, I've been looking at building one of them, but if the price on the Tris isn't right, I could likely go with a better dual or another quad, rather than a tri

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Since my HD-DVD is now going to be worthless for HD movies I'm looking at a HTPC with a BD drive. (I can justify this to the wiffy) A Tri Core looks like it might be a good way to go.
A 2.2Ghz Phenom is $199. If a Tri Core is $150-ish I could see it doing quite well for a PPD/cost.

My thoughts, am I wrong?

 
Weren't there initial reports a while back saying that tri-cores were only coming to existence due to yield issues with quad cores over at the green team's camp?

Either way, I really don't think the tri-cores will be cheap enough to prove of much use compaired to an intel quad.
 
Kendrak said:
Since my HD-DVD is now going to be worthless for HD movies I'm looking at a HTPC with a BD drive. (I can justify this to the wiffy) A Tri Core looks like it might be a good way to go.
A 2.2Ghz Phenom is $199. If a Tri Core is $150-ish I could see it doing quite well for a PPD/cost.

My thoughts, am I wrong?
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That's more or less my thoughts....when I get around to having money to build an HTPC, if it's well lower than the quad core range, and performs well relative to the C2Ds and Phenom quads, then it may be a good bet, but at this point it's sort of a waiting game

 
schenksmill said:
That's more or less my thoughts....when I get around to having money to build an HTPC, if it's well lower than the quad core range, and performs well relative to the C2Ds and Phenom quads, then it may be a good bet, but at this point it's sort of a waiting game

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Well Dell I guess is coming out with system with Tri Cores in a week. Newegg can't have them long after that.

Ninja edit: There has to be a review somewhere about the true power of these things and price.
 
Kendrak said:
Since my HD-DVD is now going to be worthless for HD movies I'm looking at a HTPC with a BD drive. (I can justify this to the wiffy) A Tri Core looks like it might be a good way to go.
A 2.2Ghz Phenom is $199. If a Tri Core is $150-ish I could see it doing quite well for a PPD/cost.

My thoughts, am I wrong?
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There's always the PS3 with Blue-Ray and Folding@Home...:cool:

 
jkalland said:
Weren't there initial reports a while back saying that tri-cores were only coming to existence due to yield issues with quad cores over at the green team's camp?
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Yes, it appears to be a salvage marketing scenario, but even so, I can't really blame AMD for proceeding with this decision. Any profit that can be produced from the Barcelona architecture is better than none. There have been many informative threads on the AMD forum about the tri-cores since last fall.

digital_exhaust said:
Nope... and form what I have read, they have no plans of doing so.. but you never know.
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AFAIK, there will be no Intel tri-cores but there will be a strange hex-core variant of Nehalem called Dunnington: http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=196356

^ Click on top chart for a bigger pic. I hope this turns out to be within the realm of affordability because I sure know that Beckton (Nehalem EX) won't be.

Celerator said:
There's always the PS3 with Blue-Ray and Folding@Home...:cool:
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Totally agreed.

 
I have a board that supports Phenom but unless the Tri-cores are practically dirt cheap and known to clock a lot better than the quad cores I don't think there will be much of a chance I'll touch one. I was waiting to see how the B3 stepping does for overclocking and prices and if they are a lot better than the current Phenoms I was thinking about picking one of them up to replace the X2 4000+.

 
The only way I'd ever consider a tri core is if they OC well. Cause if they can't, a dual core from intel might be able to edge out the benefits from that extra core if the dual is overclocked like a banshee, which isn't all that tough.

And I'm not buying a ps3 for folding, I'm with Kendrak and wharf on that one.

 
Some people hate Sony. I'm sure they have totally valid reasons. I have a new hardware mfgs that I avoid.

But ask yourself, what other hardware company has Folding@Home as built-in option?

If it Folds proteins, it's good.

 
Based on how the SMP client doesnt fully utilize 4 cores, how do you think it would utilize 3 cores.. Might be just the thing to eliminate vmware overheads of a quad...


 
RavenD said:
Based on how the SMP client doesnt fully utilize 4 cores, how do you think it would utilize 3 cores.. Might be just the thing to eliminate vmware overheads of a quad...
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I dunno, I run about 92-95% per core on a quad w/ 2x VMs.....translate that to 1 and maybe you'd see upper 80s usage? That leaves a total of about 35-40% usage wasted at most. That seems perfect for a tri-core to almost go 100% perfectly, but since the SMP are based on 4 processes, you would need some pretty decent load balancing to properly balance 4 process threads over the 3 cores to achieve perfect results

 
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