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3x cores per CPU

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Brian23

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Why aren't people talking about the CPUs that are going to have 3 cores per chip? Everyone talks about the dual and quads, but no tripples. Why is that? 3 cpus should take less die space than 4 so it should be easyer to keep yeilds up.
 
Because everthing is done in powers of two in order to facilitate easy division of tasks. There are also some more practical issues on the engineering side with timing of 3 devices instead of just halving the timing of a 2 device setup to get the timings for a 4 device setup.
 
But INtel has that EE version thats like having 4 cores. Why don't they have one with 3. Or you could put an Athlon X2 and a Pentium together to get the best of both worlds: a HOT, I mean HT core!

Edit: with crystals
 
Originally posted by: piroroadkill
Oh jesus.

The Pentium Extreme Edition does not have 4 cores.

It has two cores with HT enabled.
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Thats what I said. It's like having 4 cores. That means it has HOT, I mean HT.... with crystals.
 
Originally posted by: Brian23
But INtel has that EE version thats like having 4 cores. Why don't they have one with 3. Or you could put an Athlon X2 and a Pentium together to get the best of both worlds: a HOT, I mean HT core!

Edit: with crystals
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Understand why you can't buy a 255MB stick of RAM, and you'll understand why you can't get 3 cores.
 
Umm like 2 extra logical cores per physical CPU? I suppose it would be possible to to have a hyperthreaded, hyperthreaded CPU. However, considering HT uses extra instructions on the clock cycle using a third logical processor would gain almost no real advantage since the third logical CPU would have almost nothing left on the clock left.

BTW ViRGE is correct on why they don't have 3 physical CPUs, or triple core for that matter.
 
Well, 3 core might make sense, if you had asymetric cores. For instance, 1: 2ghz core, 2: 1 ghz cores. This would make sense if you wanted both single and multi thread preformance.
 
Originally posted by: Tick
Well, 3 core might make sense, if you had asymetric cores. For instance, 1: 2ghz core, 2: 1 ghz cores. This would make sense if you wanted both single and multi thread preformance.
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The mobo would be incredibley complex, also for the fact that the Northbridge/Southbridge + memory controllers would be an absolute nightmare. Nobody in their right mind would even attempt to sell something like that.
 
Originally posted by: ai42
Originally posted by: Tick
Well, 3 core might make sense, if you had asymetric cores. For instance, 1: 2ghz core, 2: 1 ghz cores. This would make sense if you wanted both single and multi thread preformance.
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The mobo would be incredibley complex, also for the fact that the Northbridge/Southbridge + memory controllers would be an absolute nightmare. Nobody in their right mind would even attempt to sell something like that.
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Well, the way to do it would be with a dedicated on-die memory controller for each half of the die, and perhaps a dual-core northbridge. But it could be done.
 
Originally posted by: Tick
Originally posted by: ai42
Originally posted by: Tick
Well, 3 core might make sense, if you had asymetric cores. For instance, 1: 2ghz core, 2: 1 ghz cores. This would make sense if you wanted both single and multi thread preformance.
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The mobo would be incredibley complex, also for the fact that the Northbridge/Southbridge + memory controllers would be an absolute nightmare. Nobody in their right mind would even attempt to sell something like that.
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Well, the way to do it would be with a dedicated on-die memory controller for each half of the die, and perhaps a dual-core northbridge. But it could be done.
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Oh I'm sure its possible, heck pretty much anything is possible. I just don't see any company actually developing this as a widespread product because there would be very little demand for such a complex product. Also R&D would likely be 2-3 times that of a typical board.
 
Originally posted by: ai42
Originally posted by: Tick
Originally posted by: ai42
Originally posted by: Tick
Well, 3 core might make sense, if you had asymetric cores. For instance, 1: 2ghz core, 2: 1 ghz cores. This would make sense if you wanted both single and multi thread preformance.
Click to expand...

The mobo would be incredibley complex, also for the fact that the Northbridge/Southbridge + memory controllers would be an absolute nightmare. Nobody in their right mind would even attempt to sell something like that.
Click to expand...

Well, the way to do it would be with a dedicated on-die memory controller for each half of the die, and perhaps a dual-core northbridge. But it could be done.
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Oh I'm sure its possible, heck pretty much anything is possible. I just don't see any company actually developing this as a widespread product because there would be very little demand for such a complex product. Also R&D would likely be 2-3 times that of a typical board.
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I never said it was PROBABLE. Just POSSIBLE.
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: Brian23
But INtel has that EE version thats like having 4 cores. Why don't they have one with 3. Or you could put an Athlon X2 and a Pentium together to get the best of both worlds: a HOT, I mean HT core!

Edit: with crystals
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Understand why you can't buy a 255MB stick of RAM, and you'll understand why you can't get 3 cores.
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:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: Brian23
But INtel has that EE version thats like having 4 cores. Why don't they have one with 3. Or you could put an Athlon X2 and a Pentium together to get the best of both worlds: a HOT, I mean HT core!

Edit: with crystals
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BTW WTH is this thing with crystals?!
 
Originally posted by: kobymu
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: Brian23
But INtel has that EE version thats like having 4 cores. Why don't they have one with 3. Or you could put an Athlon X2 and a Pentium together to get the best of both worlds: a HOT, I mean HT core!

Edit: with crystals
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Understand why you can't buy a 255MB stick of RAM, and you'll understand why you can't get 3 cores.
Click to expand...

:thumbsup:
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:roll:
 
Originally posted by: ai42
Originally posted by: Brian23
But INtel has that EE version thats like having 4 cores. Why don't they have one with 3. Or you could put an Athlon X2 and a Pentium together to get the best of both worlds: a HOT, I mean HT core!

Edit: with crystals
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BTW WTH is this thing with crystals?!
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It's from a lamo thread.
 
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