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Quad-Core Intels (Kentsfield) in Q1 2007?
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sunfast said:That is mental!
Fancy coming up with a price?
It is "impossible"
4 sockets, 4 CPU slots, 6 expansion slots + 4 graphics cards = 10 expansion slots, 16+12+??? ports = 30+ USB/FW/Whatever ports...
What's this? "Mac Pro-in-a-truck"?
How big will be a casing that can fit all of that in?!
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Digitimes claims that Intel will be introducing their first Quad-core CPUs in the first quarter of 2007.
The Quad core chip is codenamed "Kentsfield". They also report that Intel's dual-core Conroe chip which is speculated to make its way into Apple PowerMacs (Mac Pros?) this fall will be introduced in September of this year.
Any speculation as to what real world gains could be seen over a Quad PPC?
I keep seeing poor performance from the Core Duo chips, even compared to single G5 iMacs, when, for example, compressing video files, converting video and audio formats and animation rendering...
I know current Intel Macs are 32 bits, but jeez, 2-3x faster my @$$ (perhaps for booting and surfing the web!!)
I can't wait to see the real Intel chips in action (when Apple won't be ashamed of putting some in PowerMacs or Mac Pros, whatever they'll call 'em)
I know current Intel Macs are 32 bits, but jeez, 2-3x faster my @$$ (perhaps for booting and surfing the web!!)
I can't wait to see the real Intel chips in action (when Apple won't be ashamed of putting some in PowerMacs or Mac Pros, whatever they'll call 'em)
I am hoping to get a new powermac in Q1 2007, and i hope the quad cores are out by then, i want a dual quad core, but i think that will only be on the top model and i will only be able to afford the bottom.
will the quad core have HT?
will the quad core have HT?
Leopard Will Be The Key To Hyperthreading Efficiencies
I'll have to see some amazing reviews before I will move to the 8 core Leopard powered Kentsfield model (Dual Quad-Core) next year. I'm not sure I want to give up the PPC Quad even when I move to the 8 core as it will have some lasting value as what can still run classic (not that I ever want to) and it's the world's first 4 core mass market personal computer that will still kick ass for years to come. In fact I imagine Leopard will breath new life into the Quad Classic next year. That's likely in fact. I really love my Quad. But it's still way too slow. Not kidding.
From the excellent intelligence I've read over at Mac OS Rumors, Leopard will be all about distributed processing across 4 and 8 cores inside each Mac Pro. They believe that 10.5 will be able to distribute workloads more eficiently than Tiger ever will. I sure hope so. I am frequently using all 4 of my cores simultaneously for relatively mundane video transcoding - Encoding a DVD Image with Toast 7 while I rip MP4 files with Handbrake from the last Image created while recording HD with EyeTV 2.1, while editing out commercials from someting just recorded and checking mail and surfing. It all adds up to a pretty full load even for the Quad.timmillwood said:
I'll have to see some amazing reviews before I will move to the 8 core Leopard powered Kentsfield model (Dual Quad-Core) next year. I'm not sure I want to give up the PPC Quad even when I move to the 8 core as it will have some lasting value as what can still run classic (not that I ever want to) and it's the world's first 4 core mass market personal computer that will still kick ass for years to come. In fact I imagine Leopard will breath new life into the Quad Classic next year.
That's likely in fact. I really love my Quad. But it's still way too slow. Not kidding. 
i say it it should be two seperate processors with two cores each. each core runs at 3.2 gigahertz. for a personal computer that runs at a grand total of... 12.8 gigahertz.
My thoughts exactly! I've used em and I don't see where all the hype is...Lord Kythe said:
Us Mac Loyalist will have to see dramatic changes to become happy with this new Intel emplementation. The octal thing sounds more realistic considering Leopard.
Dual Quad Kentsfiels (8 cores total, each core running at 1.5 GHz, a total of 12 GHz)
1 GHz FSB and BSB pr. core
32 GB PC3-10000 1 GHz DDR3 RAM
4 SATA bays, 3 TB of storage at 10k rpm.
Dual Ati X3000 w. 1 GB VRAM each. 2 Duallink DVI, and one Quadlink DVI each.
HD DVD/Blu-Ray burner
5xUSB (4 back, 1 front), 3xFW400 (2 back, 1 front), 2xFW800 (2 back)
Dual Gigabit ethernet
4 16x lanes of PCI-Express
Dual 30" ACD's at 3840x2400 each (maximum res. that DDL can pull)
FrontRowp )
Integrated 8.1 channel soundcard, 32-bit, analog and opticla digital in/out
AP+BT
Price: $ 25k
A maxed out top of the line PM in May 2007
1 GHz FSB and BSB pr. core
32 GB PC3-10000 1 GHz DDR3 RAM
4 SATA bays, 3 TB of storage at 10k rpm.
Dual Ati X3000 w. 1 GB VRAM each. 2 Duallink DVI, and one Quadlink DVI each.
HD DVD/Blu-Ray burner
5xUSB (4 back, 1 front), 3xFW400 (2 back, 1 front), 2xFW800 (2 back)
Dual Gigabit ethernet
4 16x lanes of PCI-Express
Dual 30" ACD's at 3840x2400 each (maximum res. that DDL can pull)
FrontRow
p )Integrated 8.1 channel soundcard, 32-bit, analog and opticla digital in/out
AP+BT
Price: $ 25k
A maxed out top of the line PM in May 2007
Its obvious that apple is going back to the PPC970 when they release the new 8 Core Dual-cell processor (8 cores with 7 SPE's each core) it will run at 4.5Ghz and will render Final Fantasy Advent Children in Real time.
The Stats for the computer are like So
Dual Cell2 8 Processors Running at 4.5Ghz
4X1TB XATA 20,000RPM HDD
24X Ultra Drive HVD (holographic versitile disc)-R/BD-R/HD-DVD-R/DVD-R/DVD-RAM/DVD+R/CD-R
24X Ultra Drive (slot 2)
8GB VRAM on 2 Nvidia 8950 GX2 XOC (extreme overclocked) and 2 ATIX2950 XTX Platnium Pro XOC (each running at 2.5Ghz)
32X PCI-Express 3.0
64GB DDR3-XDRAM
22.2 Surround Sound
203" OLED monitor 7,680 × 4,320 with a 100,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio and .008 Picosecond response time
$250,000,000 US. but it comes with free airlift to anywhere in the world and a Rolls Royce and a custom built house.
The Stats for the computer are like So
Dual Cell2 8 Processors Running at 4.5Ghz
4X1TB XATA 20,000RPM HDD
24X Ultra Drive HVD (holographic versitile disc)-R/BD-R/HD-DVD-R/DVD-R/DVD-RAM/DVD+R/CD-R
24X Ultra Drive (slot 2)
8GB VRAM on 2 Nvidia 8950 GX2 XOC (extreme overclocked) and 2 ATIX2950 XTX Platnium Pro XOC (each running at 2.5Ghz)
32X PCI-Express 3.0
64GB DDR3-XDRAM
22.2 Surround Sound
203" OLED monitor 7,680 × 4,320 with a 100,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio and .008 Picosecond response time
$250,000,000 US. but it comes with free airlift to anywhere in the world and a Rolls Royce and a custom built house.
Interesting, seems Digitimes has been on the money so far regarding the dual-core chips, and may be on track to correctly predict Quad-cores by Q1 of 2007.
btw, LOL on how many members got banned on this page, four! generik, macpastor, photorun, macgeek2005.
btw, LOL on how many members got banned on this page, four! generik, macpastor, photorun, macgeek2005.
shyataroo said:
Cell processor, given a fact that compilers are not even fully optimized to take advantage of it, is showing that it's more of a general purpose processor than some people were saying. Intel could put 10 cores on a chip and they'll match neither it's performance or price. The APUs are dedicated vector processors, x86 are not. The x86 cores include the SSE vector units but these are no match for even a single APU.
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2006/Jul/CellProcessorPotential.pdf
Cell processor is not only more power efficient than Itanium or Opteron but in most applications its 6-10 times faster and in specialized fully optimized applications it can be up to 40 times faster. Now that is impressive. Intel Core Duo or Quads are just a processor evolution, Cell is a revolution.
Yeah, current speculations make the first Kentsfield available in November. Now that chip will be blazing fast!
4 * 2.66GHz
4 * 2.66GHz
Kentsfield will be the desktop part (using plain DDR2). It can't be used in dual configuration. The server part (Xeon, using FB-DDR2) is called Clovertown and it can be used in dual configurations giving us a possibility of a 8 core Mac (not that I'd know what to do with it). They'll be announced on November 13th although that doesn't mean they'll be available immediately.
YOUR FIRED! YOU ARE LEAKING OUT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!!!!
Oh well... It was nice to just act like I was an Apple top dawg hehe!
LOL, sorry bud, I don't work for them. Wish I did, but I don't...YOUR FIRED! YOU ARE LEAKING OUT CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!!!!
Oh well... It was nice to just act like I was an Apple top dawg hehe!