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When two cores isn't enough

 
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PostLink    Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:03 am    Post subject: When two cores isn't enough Reply with quote


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You go with Intel's dual quad-core setup for gaming, and maybe a little HTPC-ing, too:

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PostLink    Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, that is pretty sick. Things are starting to get really interesting again in hardware.

The only problem is I don't think there is a single consumer app that will take advantage of 8 cores?

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PostLink    Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:52 pm    Post subject: Re: When two cores isn't enough Reply with quote

WanMan wrote:
You go with Intel's dual quad-core setup for gaming, and maybe a little HTPC-ing, too:

Do you have a link to that board?

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PostLink    Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Needs more PCie 16x slots.
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PostLink    Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:09 am    Post subject: Re: When two cores isn't enough Reply with quote

JustGreg wrote:
WanMan wrote:
You go with Intel's dual quad-core setup for gaming, and maybe a little HTPC-ing, too:

Do you have a link to that board?
Well, I read an article over at Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080204-intel-takes-wraps-off-high-performance-skulltrail-platform.html

From there there are several other links at the bottom.

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PostLink    Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dual quad core? Wow.

I have a single quad core now on our 'main' computer and nothing really uses that from what I understand.

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PostLink    Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kal wrote:
Dual quad core? Wow.

I have a single quad core now on our 'main' computer and nothing really uses that from what I understand.

Kal


I know that some of the NLE software does Vegas comes to mind. Think XP pro only supports 2 cores, 64 bit version maybe more. Vista has intellegent switching that at least appears to work. When you look at CPU usage plots they do not track on top of each other. You can also set the "processor affinity" in task manager I not sure how effective that is.

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PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That could be the heart of a real home media system,simultaneous multi user, multi app. remote dumb terminals, whole house systems...sexy, VERY sexy.
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PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That could be the heart of a real home media system,simultaneous multi user, multi app. remote dumb terminals, whole house systems...sexy, VERY sexy.


Wipe up that puddle of drool Jask Wink

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PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am licking my monitor right now....oops,that was John's latest avatar


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PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think something similar to this motherboard must exist in order for Apple to utilize the twin quad-core setup in their junk.
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PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I think something similar to this motherboard must exist in order for Apple to utilize the twin quad-core setup in their junk.


Good point...I bet you are right. It kind of seems excessive right now unless you into big-time number crunching, maybe encoding video. Even then the software will have to be smart enough to figure out who's doing what. Disk IO is real bottleneck, I put together a machine with a flash hard dive. It was used to fly at 25K ft. in a non-pressurized cabin, a standard mechanical hard drive won't work in that thin of air. I was expecting it to scoot...it really wasn't much faster than a regular hard drive in fact I think it was slower writing.


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PostLink    Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought about getting that for my next upgrade, but once you look into it you see that 8 cores is currently overkill. I'm not sure if there are any consumer applications or games that support that many.
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PostLink    Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And with all those cores you'll need some storage. When you decide to buy a case of 1TB drives make sure you buy a couple of these puppies to control them:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151004

Yeah, 24 SATA2 connections. Jesus. Thumbs Up

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/16-151-004-05.jpg

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PostLink    Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

WanMan wrote:
And with all those cores you'll need some storage. When you decide to buy a case of 1TB drives make sure you buy a couple of these puppies to control them:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151004

Yeah, 24 SATA2 connections. Jesus. Thumbs Up

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/16-151-004-05.jpg


and perhaps a 2KW Power Supply

http://legitreviews.com/article/436/1/


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