Core i7-980X 6 Core bad boy

"It's so fast it's actually pushing the new graphics cards to process 3D graphics even faster," Reeves said. "It's the best CPU I've ever seen."

that sound promising-----/\
 
You know I would get excited over this...but then I remember how much puff was over quad-cores and no games take advantage of them 3 years later :P
 
im pretty sure they're on the socket 1336, which is a good thing as it'll make the upgrade a lot cheaper / easier =]
 
Twist86 said:
You know I would get excited over this...but then I remember how much puff was over quad-cores and no games take advantage of them 3 years later :P
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That's why you never buy the best of the best :). Though having a Q6600 does help in terms of multitasking, I can have a lot more things open and not slow down than my friends E6600.
 
Twist86 said:
I bought my Q6600 2 years ago it was one of the best then :P
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Same here...and still it handles anything with ease.

That 6 core looks like it will be a beast though....i wonder what AMD will bring out in return?
 
Twist86 said:
You know I would get excited over this...but then I remember how much puff was over quad-cores and no games take advantage of them 3 years later :P
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No one buys this CPU for gaming, though...

That's just stupid. Buying any extreme edition CPU and placing it under air/water purely for the purpose of gaming is stupid.

bigfellla said:
A 5 core cpu that is slower and more expensive...
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I hope that that's a joke, since AMD has been confirmed to be releasing a 6-core Thuban CPU, which will probably not touch the performance of a 980x (well, it won't, at all) it will be considerably cheaper.
 
meticadpa said:
No one buys this CPU for gaming, though...

That's just stupid. Buying any extreme edition CPU and placing it under air/water purely for the purpose of gaming is stupid.



I hope that that's a joke, since AMD has been confirmed to be releasing a 6-core Thuban CPU, which will probably not touch the performance of a 980x (well, it won't, at all) it will be considerably cheaper.
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You never know...i got a feeling AMD might have something up their sleeve and shock us all....who knows.
 
Nevakonaza said:
You never know...i got a feeling AMD might have something up their sleeve and shock us all....who knows.
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i don't think so, I do think, however, that they will still dominate the low to mid-high end market for price/performance. For the top of the line though, Intel will still hold that
 
meticadpa said:
No one buys this CPU for gaming, though...

That's just stupid. Buying any extreme edition CPU and placing it under air/water purely for the purpose of gaming is stupid.



I hope that that's a joke, since AMD has been confirmed to be releasing a 6-core Thuban CPU, which will probably not touch the performance of a 980x (well, it won't, at all) it will be considerably cheaper.
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I was being facecious, you will probably learn that next year in english class along with "that that's..." is a meaningless phrase. :o ;)

I think the importance of this development is that in the next 'tick' or is it a 'tock' cycle?.... (whatever)... Intel is showing that they currently have a 32nm die running up to 3.6GHz at 230W with 6 cores is going to smash the pants off almost all alternatives in the consumer market for several generations (technology cycles). It is simply a case of Intel's war cry.

Aastii said:
i don't think so, I do think, however, that they will still dominate the low to mid-high end market for price/performance. For the top of the line though, Intel will still hold that
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Couldn't agree more. Intel simply has more resources.

Either way, all we are waiting on is software and game developers to start (re)coding for 6 cores effectively and natively! Either that or we might see GPUs becoming more and more utlilised to perfrom traditional computational/physics tasks, such as the CUDA implementation on nVidia drivers to enable PhysX or folding at home projects.
 
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bigfellla said:
I was being facecious, you will probably learn that next year in english class along with "that that's..." is a meaningless phrase. :o ;)
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So here we go with the "Crap, nothing to say to that, insult his age!" thing again... nice. I have to say, there's always one!

Also, it's facetious. Not facecious. You should have learned that a long time ago, "bigfellla".

If you're going to make a (poor) attempt to insult someone's age an intelligence, at least have the grace to spell things correctly.

By the way... Chrome, Firefox and Opera all have built-in spell-check features; I suggest that you check them out. :)
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Eh, at this point i'd just go with the new evga dual socket board and a couple xeon's.

Or maybe one of them amd magny cours.
 
At this point, it's pretty obvious that we're going to see more and more cores, what with intel's 80-core prototype or whatever it was. I think, rather than programmers coding for a specific amount of threads, they're going to code the programs to take advantage of all available threads no matter the number. IIRC, The Source engine already does this, or something like it.
 
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