xeon vs core

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nexolus

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I've looked for some comparisons or tests or whatever and I can't find anything, maybe one of you guys know.

How do you think a Dual Xeon Quadcore (8-cores) vs QX6800 quadcore would compare?
 
Depends on your uses, and what speed the Xeon would be. Because if the clock speeds are similar, the dual quad-core xeons will obviously be faster then a single QX6800. Although most server motherboards arent designed for gamers, so again, it depends on your use. If you want to run an SLI or CF setup, and do alot of overclocking, then a dual-xeon board would pretty much be out of the question.
 
i dont know what you could possibly ever use 8 cores for...but hey, it would definitely give you bragging rights.
 
[-0MEGA-];707176 said:
I remember them saying in the past that by now we will have 10Ghz+ processors.
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IBM did a chip that had to be cooled in liquid nitrogen to be cooled, it got to 500GHz. Imagine the electricity bill...
 
I guess one example of using 8 cores would be if you where doing multi track editing (in music)

You would never get any latency on your tracks, lol.
 
IBM did a chip that had to be cooled in liquid nitrogen to be cooled, it got to 500GHz. Imagine the electricity bill...
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It switched at 350GHz at room temperature but it's not a processor. It wasn't it's clock speed, it was a simple switching transistor not a complex digital IC like a processor is. It's an analog circuit.
 
[-0MEGA-];707595 said:
You can't multiply the clock speed by the number of cores.
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yes I know that but I'm saying effectively they all work at that speed. if 4 pitchers throw 50 mile-per-hour fast balls at one point, the point will experience 4x50mph at once.
 
nexolus said:
yes I know that but I'm saying effectively they all work at that speed. if 4 pitchers throw 50 mile-per-hour fast balls at one point, the point will experience 4x50mph at once.
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as long as that point's local laws allow 4 pitchers throwing at the same place at once.

AKA as long as the program supports multiple cores.
 
nexolus said:
yes I know that but I'm saying effectively they all work at that speed. if 4 pitchers throw 50 mile-per-hour fast balls at one point, the point will experience 4x50mph at once.
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Thats true, but if you are running a single program on your quad core, only one core will be processing and the other 3 cores wont be. The only way you could say that is if your running 4 demanding apps at once.
 
GCR said:
IBM did a chip that had to be cooled in liquid nitrogen to be cooled, it got to 500GHz. Imagine the electricity bill...
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correction they go it to 236K I think and that changed the atomic architecture of the chip allowing it to got to 500GHz on *just* standard every day liquid nitrogen cooling
 
[-0MEGA-];707867 said:
haha, I was referring to desktop processors :P


btw, thanks for copying my sig :rolleyes:
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My signature's been like this for yonks... And I can imagine the IBM chip in a desktop, so long as your desk was the size of Chicago O'Hare...
 
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