Intel & AMD's six core cpu plans (w/ salt)

[james.wired]

AMD, Intel Plotting Six-Core CPU Releases

With both AMD and Intel already floating quad-core CPUs on the market, it's only natural for them to dial things up a bit bigger by adding 50 percent more cores.

According to a report from Digitimes, who sources its friends at Taiwanese motherboard companies, Intel will be rolling out its six-core desktop "Gulftown" processors at the end of March. The six-core Nehalem-based chip will supposedly be named the Core i7-980X and will be priced in the four-digit range.

In response, AMD will launch the six-core "Thuban" 45nm chips as Phenom II X6 1075T, 1055T and 1035T models sometime in May.

As always, take these reports with a grain of salt – but it's safe to say that we'll be seeing six-core CPUs sometime before the summer.

It's good to hear news about both, I hadn't heard anything about Thuban in a long time. Gulftown is going to be insanity

 

[Burn]

Intel & AMD's six core cpu plans (w/ salt)

no pepper?

 

[james.wired]

If you like to mix things up a bit, sure haha.

 

[yzmxer608]

Ooo 4 digit price tag, that's only a day of picking up cans to get one of these things!

 

[james.wired]

Go broke or go home hahaha

 

[zedman3d]

Isnt there an article which shows that increasing cores is only useful for so long, performance isnt linear. Like i think 8 cores is the max before performance becomes negligible.

 

[james.wired]

I haven't seen that, but it sort of makes sense. Kind of like at some point overkill GPU just hurts you.

 

[Burn]

Isnt there an article which shows that increasing cores is only useful for so long, performance isnt linear. Like i think 8 cores is the max before performance becomes negligible.

as of now i wouldnt be surprised. but you never know... 6 years from now the recommended system requirements for crysis 5 might be an octa core

LOL

 

[S0ULphIRE]

I think I spent about a quarter/third of my salary last year on computer upgrades lol...that's probably a little sad..

 

[james.wired]

^ Haha I hear you on that...but it's not sad at all