Intel Quad Core In Q4

Mathew Everett 19 Jul, 2006 at 6:56pm ET Article published in Tech

Comments

1. 
   19 Jul 2006 ~ 7:50pm Garg Hopefully we'll have more multithreaded software to use all those cores someday.
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   19 Jul 2006 ~ 7:58pm Leonardo Four cores - one machine - awesome Folding rig. Can you say 4 X Double Gromacs on one PC simultaneously? ...or 4 of any work unit on one PC :bigggrin:
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   19 Jul 2006 ~ 10:05pm airbornflght Or maybe, coders will decide to use all the cores, instead of still programming single threaded applications. bah. I say we abondone singlethreaded apps all together. Or you could make them backwards compatible, but probably too much trouble.
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   20 Jul 2006 ~ 12:59am RWB I am pretty sure you can code programs to take advantage of however many cores are in the system dynamically. But some programs do not need more than one. I could imagine it now... your IM programs taking advantage of 8 cores!
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   20 Jul 2006 ~ 1:26am Garg

   RWB wrote:

   But some programs do not need more than one. I could imagine it now... your IM programs taking advantage of 8 cores!

   Sure they could use the power. For their, uh, 4-D animated smileys!
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   20 Jul 2006 ~ 9:04am GHoosdum Time traveling smileys!
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   20 Jul 2006 ~ 11:00pm airbornflght

   GHoosdum wrote:

   Time traveling smileys!

   
   Hells yeh, and they have a physics engine built into them, so you can throw them around and move them out of the way:D
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   21 Jul 2006 ~ 9:33am deicist

   Leonardo wrote:

   Four cores - one machine - awesome Folding rig. Can you say 4 X Double Gromacs on one PC simultaneously? ...or 4 of any work unit on one PC :bigggrin:

   
   are these based on the P4 architecture or something newer? Doesn't the FSB on a P4 get saturated very easily in the dual core models especially when running gromacs? I thought I heard something about that...
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   21 Jul 2006 ~ 9:57am GHoosdum I'm pretty sure that these are Conroe based.
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    21 Jul 2006 ~ 1:17pm airbornflght Yeh, I am almost certain they are made on the core 2 architecture, not based off of the p4. God forbid if they are.
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    21 Jul 2006 ~ 2:45pm Leonardo

    are these based on the P4 architecture

    P4 is dead. Elements of Netburst (it wasn't all bad) will live on, but not the P4 architecture. Finito.
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    21 Jul 2006 ~ 3:01pm Garg

    Leonardo wrote:

    P4 is dead. Elements of Netburst (it wasn't all bad) will live on, but not the P4 architecture. Finito.

    :celebrate
13. 
    21 Jul 2006 ~ 3:55pm Sledgehammer70 Intel still suffers from memory bottle necking as memory controller is not on die. Intel will loss the quad core performance crown... unless they do something about their memory controller.
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    21 Jul 2006 ~ 5:50pm airbornflght Yeh, I have been reading about that, They dont have enough bandwidth to feed all four cores. While amd doesnt seem to be suffering.
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    21 Jul 2006 ~ 5:52pm Sledgehammer70 The intresting part will be when we see programs that will make use of these 4 cores... man i can't wait until I can Box 4 versions of the same game
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    21 Jul 2006 ~ 6:15pm airbornflght

    Sledgehammer70 wrote:

    The intresting part will be when we see programs that will make use of these 4 cores... man i can't wait until I can Box 4 versions of the same game

    
    Because god knows that is what we need...you better grow six extra arms and some more eyes to handle all of those games.
    
    
    I was actually thinking of using four cores so that I can have all the AV stuff on one core, music and video on a another, and then just use the other two for whatever.
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    21 Jul 2006 ~ 6:24pm Sledgehammer70 Actually I play L2 on 4 computers as is... 2 laptops and 2 towers. I am a 1 man raid