Fr4665

http://www.alternate.de/html/product...l?artno=HPGI57

i cant find it anywhere but there for sale its a local german computer store. i thought it wasnt gona be out till later this month ?

mimo2005

good for multitasks , not for gaming .



check these pages :
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Two dies, four cores
Page 3: Kentsfield uncovered
Page 4: Kentsfield uncovered cont.
Page 5: Test system
Page 6: Performance: SiSoft Sandra
Page 7: Performance: Everest
Page 8: Performance: WinRar & Cinebench
Page 9: Performance: LAME Encoding
Page 10: Performance: 3DMark
Page 11: Performance: 3DMark06 CPU and PCMark05 CPU
Page 12: Performance: Games
Page 13: Power consumption
Page 14: Conclusion

http://www.nordichardware.com/Review...&skrivelse=491

Fr4665

yeah already read the reviews 2 weeks back had em on anandtech as well. unless thers more multithreaded games there wont be much use unless for big clustering environments.

valve is slowly devloping their multi core technology once that will be out having more then 1 or two cores will be usefull.

intel officially announced the kentsfield core today so i assume we will see more of them hitting online retailers and also local stores.

sinclair_tm

of course this disscustion would become mute is companies other than apple would write os's that could properlly use multi-core cpus. when they first started using dual cpus, they noticed that app writers were not making apps that could even see the second cpu, let alone try to use it. so with the release of os x, they put all that control with the os. so when an app makes a call to the cpu, the os keeps track of which cpu has what going on, and then sends the task to the cpu that will get to it first. in this manner, even games do see an increase when running on a dual cpu mac when compaired to a single chip. then once these dual cores came out, apple had no problems useing them, even in multi-chip, multi-core systems. what gets me is that even with vista, you still don't see this kind of aproch with microsoft. instead the assign an app per core/cpu. so if you have, lets say, photoshop and ms paint open, they each get a seperate core, and even though paint isn't even using it any where near its max, photoshop can't touch it when it goes off to render. anyway, time to go...

[token macguy yell] JUST GET A MAC!! [/token macguy yell]

Fr4665

well im sure adobe will derive their own multicore technoilogie. have you looked at the new valve source engine approach (ohh and yeah that doesnt run on a mac :p) what they are doing is splitting up the different aspects of rendering sound visuals physics etc to one core and if they need more power they will distribute it even more.

i saw a post on anandtech i believe where they dropped two kentsfield into a new mac and it showed the 8 cores being usuable so that is truely nice but since i cant render 3dsmax files on a mac thers no use for it to me nor can i play the games i want to play makes me sad if i could id get a mac.

sinclair_tm

ya, autodesk has been rather lame about bringing their software to the mac. so far, maya is the only one that i know of.

Fr4665

and blender of course and i thin cinema4d works aswell....

BTW qx6700 @ newegg for 1.5k $ USD ?!?!?!? *** thats more expensive then here in germany and thats a rare thing to happen. must be having some sort of supply shortages