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Kendrak

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To buy one of these things.... :eek:

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Took it off the front page of [H]. Thought this deserved it's own thread here.

Rumors have it that 4+ Ghz is quite easy.

 
What I want to know is...it looks like a 6-core version of a Core i7 975. Same clock speed, etc. Except with 50% more cores. So, how is it supposed to maintain a TDP of 130W?
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
What I want to know is...it looks like a 6-core version of a Core i7 975. Same clock speed, etc. Except with 50% more cores. So, how is it supposed to maintain a TDP of 130W?
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die shrink I think.
 
I'd have to skip a few car payments to buy that.

Runs out and starts collecting aluminum cans... should take a year...
 
I will be, if someone wants to give me $1500 to pay for a rig with one of them in it... :p
 
Drooll!!! I was just thinking about -bigadv production with this thing!!
Maybe 33% faster times. Maybe 28 minute tpf.

 
Sing along with me
"whoring for the [H]orde,whoring for the [H]orde, High Ho the dairy Oh, whoring for the [H]orde"...
 
I don think I can eat that many re men noodles. :D Maybe if I won the lottery I could get one.
 
With 12 logical cores would this not fall under the VMWare fail clause? I hate to thread-crap but the obvious draw to this is bigadv, but can you really leverage the full power of it on a single instance without going native Linux?
 
flogge said:
With 12 logical cores would this not fall under the VMWare fail clause? I hate to thread-crap but the obvious draw to this is bigadv, but can you really leverage the full power of it on a single instance without going native Linux?
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Yes, you would have to go native Linux, but what's wrong with that?
 
With that kinda power under the hood, I'll run linux native with windows in a VM.
 
It's just that Linux seemsto turn off some of the potential crowd
But, not that alot if those people read hear LOL
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By the time I can afford one of these maybe the VMs will catch up. Maybe.
 
tjmagneto said:
By the time I can afford one of these maybe the VMs will catch up. Maybe.
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Actually, if we're lucky we'll have SMP2 by the time these CPUs are released and we won't even need to use VMs or Linux any more.
 
I thought they were going to name the 6-core CPUs i9s? Also, are they going to release a lower clocked 6-core version so people can actually afford it? I'm sure that one will be $1000+ as any "Extreme Edition" does. If they could make a "920" version of this 6-core that's semi affordable, I would definitely sell my 920 toward the purchase of it. No way in hell I'm spending over $300 on a CPU though, let alone a grand, hah.
 
Wait a few months for them to make huge bucks off the extremes then you'll see the cheaper ones co e out and flood the market

I think the i9 name is for the revision of gulftown
/crosses fingers for win client that can handle 32 cores
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lol no one buys the EE processors vaulter.. they are so expensive because they are a limited release thus the price never drops.. they will release the low end versions at the same time as the EE.. but expect them to be much slower then the 980x..
 
I could have swore the EE Q9's came out before the rest..
Anyways, ya, I know no one really buys them, but those that do make intel a decent profit (obviously not much since sales are low)

Intel smart for doing that tho, there will always be those who will pay top dollar to get that extra boost with OC'ing
Can't blame em for trying, I just hate when it's all that's In stock
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My sig rig is due for an upgrade. Can these be dropped into any x58 MoBo?
 
capreppy said:
My sig rig is due for an upgrade. Can these be dropped into any x58 MoBo?
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dont know yet.

It would really only take a BIOS update if anyhting, but if its like 775 you can expect the mobo mfgrs to make you buy a new one.
 
Zero82z said:
They'll require a BIOS upgrade at most. Drop-in support has been confirmed by Intel.
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Right, that was true with a lot of the C2x series but a lot of the mobo manufacturers wouldnt release bios updates cause they wanted you to buy a new board.
 
nitrobass24 said:
Right, that was true with a lot of the C2x series but a lot of the mobo manufacturers wouldnt release bios updates cause they wanted you to buy a new board.
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There aren't any new chipsets coming out for the LGA1366 platform, so I don't anticipate any problems with Gulftown CPUs being supported by current boards.
 
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