Intel i9 (Gulftown) 6-core

[fazers_on_stun]

^ Oops, make that POVray - the Cinebench only showed about 33% improvement.

 

[zetec_influenced]

The good thing is knowing someone on the inside. IE the guy whos making them and the software engineer for the cpu. to what i know 1366 pin and well worth it. all i say is owners of the 1366 pin MB's your day of lucky will come

 

[yannifb]

The good thing is knowing someone on the inside. IE the guy whos making them and the software engineer for the cpu. to what i know 1366 pin and well worth it. all i say is owners of the 1366 pin MB's your day of lucky will come

The only thing i can see that will be worthwhile is having SB work on 1366 mobos. But Intel didn't even rumor about SB's compatibility with current sockets.

 

[SmilingSamoyed]

Just buy an i7 920 system, upgrade the CPU when the i9 comes out (or wait two years for prices to drop), and upgrade your video card as you see fit. There's absolutely no logic in waiting 6 months to buy a computer that will last you 4 years.
Or save yourself a few hundred dollars buy just upgrading your Q6600 to a Q9650.
Exactly how long has your Q6600 system lasted you so far? Certainly not 4 years.
What video card do you have in it now? Certainly not one where your system has become CPU limited.
Or you could just buy a pair of $500 video cards in SLI/Xfire if all you care about is FPS for gaming. It all comes down to how much cash your asking to burn for what kind of performance boost. What's your budget?

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I have to laugh. I have an HP AMD Turion64 ML-40 laptop. It's JUST NOW running internet (multiple tabs), games (nothing cutting edge), and office slowly. ANY new machine would run circles around this, but I've gotten my ROI on this machine.
I'm looking at an i7 and then replacing a similar aged (7+yo) desktop in 6 mths. Have to wait for the paychecks to come rolling in :-(.
Any current machine, when matched with what you do 95% of the time will last you 3+ years. IMHO.

 

[ric926]

They are going run 4500MHz @ .8v (stock), Overclock to 7+GHz and cost $89.99 and come with free Motherboard fitted with 12GB of DDR4-3000

A CPU FOR 89.99??? ON WHAT PLANET??

 

[ric926]

in 2030 it will either be ddr-12000 or like johnny mnemonic, just plug it into your head

 

[ubservers]

From the new "i" architechture develloped by intel, i9 will surelly be something not to neglect. It won't be a "high price for nothing". Q6600 is still a good CPU, but i7 or i9 will be amazingly faster because it uses each core in a whole new way which is some kind of a revolution
Go for it!

 

[ric926]

Well their just about at the limit at 45nm and clock speeds arent gonna get much faster so to maintain moores law (cpu's dbl in speed.etc every 18 months) they are just adding more procs on a die, if they dont you think the dot com bust was bad in the 90's.....the whole world is strung out on tech, make the economic troubles of 08-09 look like a good time

 

[ric926]

ohh unless the can get the carbon nanotube thing or what ever other tech that is HOT at the moment

 

[ric926]

From the new "i" architechture develloped by intel, i9 will surelly be something not to neglect. It won't be a "high price for nothing". Q6600 is still a good CPU, but i7 or i9 will be amazingly faster because it uses each core in a whole new way which is some kind of a revolution
Go for it!

each core is dedicated to an app or process vs switching back and forth, 2 apps use 2 cores, 3 apps 3 cores, etc, true multitasking

 

[4745454b]

Light is not a processor. It can transmit data, but its not a processor.

 

[yannifb]

That is why quantum computing is a hot topic to look into. Light is the fastest processor out there.

Quantum computing doesn't have to do with light... it has to do with quantum entanglement.

 

[4745454b]

Oops, missed that part didn't I?

 

[Dekasav]

There's more misinformation in this thread than AMD vs. Intel flamebait threads.

Thankfully, most of it has been corrected.

 

[FALC0N]

Most of you may have heard that Intel will be releasing the 6 core nehalem version of the i7
It is said to be called i9

Nehalem version of the I7?

Isn't that a little redundant?

 

[yannifb]

...entanglement?

Entanglement is when two particles are basically in exactly in the same state, to put it in very, very rough terms. Essentially, anything that happens to one of the particles will happen to the other at the exact same time with the exact same effect. And to skip some explanation and go straight to how it impacts computing power- one qubit (a bit in a quantum computer) can exist in 4 different states at once (as opposed to either a 1 or 0 like a normal transistor). So two qubits can exist as eight states as once, and it expands exponentially. So by now you should see why it has such massive potential in computers.

Oh and sorry for waitin so long to reply. I got lazy . Which is also why i gave you a very rough explanation. If you want me to elaborate just ask.

 

[Guest]

They are going run 4500MHz @ .8v (stock), Overclock to 7+GHz and cost $89.99 and come with free Motherboard fitted with 12GB of DDR4-3000

No thanks...I'm waiting for the i11 at $19.99 on an infomercial

 

[witcherx]

Yo! AMD X6 . i m gona jump frm x3 to X6 soon

 

[Misko195]

If you wannt play games in next 2-3 years, take i7 970x with two 5890 in crossfire or GTX480 in SLI, 24 DDR3 ram good water cooling system and i garanted you will be able to play games in next 3 years........

Sorry on my english

 

[witcherx]

1 of those cards is more than enuf to play all the games today.. no need to take two cards.. If you want.. you can check wat type of game content is there in the future.. and then switch.. btw.. nothing is "garanted"

 

[warmon6]

Permission to smash this thread to bits? [:huntluck:3]

Thread has been going on way to long...... Once though core i9 is core i7, last time i commented on this thread was 8 months ago, shall i contiune?

 

[vaerax]

Wow this is ridiculous. I had the same stock build and just got an i7-920. It's a better processor. The truth is Q6600 is fine for 99% of all games w/ a decent graphics card; I was running a GT8800 w/ 2GB memory and I had sc2 beta turned ALL THE WAY UP @ 1050p. There was literally 1 setting I didn't max, and i suffered no slowdown whatsoever (so I could probably max it fine). Everyone makes a big deal about the new processors, but honestly most video games don't USE 4 threads; quad core isn't significantly better than dual core for most games as I understand it. There's a good expalantion of that on this forum somewhere. I only read the first 10 or so entries before I got the point - sorry if this is repeat information. If you want a better gaming experience, instead of even considering an i9, get a decent i5/i7, overclock the heck out of it, and get an uber monitor - or 2 - and an appropriately uber gpu. When it comes to games, you're basically wanting eye-candy, and that will be more cost efficient eye candy. Regards.

 

[p4nz3rm4d]

If yr looking at the next gen CPUs, why not the AMD Bulldozer?

 

[warmon6]

If yr looking at the next gen CPUs, why not the AMD Bulldozer?

 

[p4nz3rm4d]

just get the AMD Bulldozer...