How many people want to buy Kentsfield b/c Intel demoed Alanwake?

[theteamaqua]

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just curious. another one: How many gamers that wanna buy it, and why??

i think im getting an E6600 L627 or above and OC it to 4GHz would perform better than this in most apps. well i only do some minor video encoding, like encode DVD (i only do it couple times a week when i rent , wooot!), and i mostly play games, browse and thats it.

I ask this cuz some people were actually touched by Intel's marketing, i too think that 4 cores , 8 cores 16 cores r the future. But if u have the hardware and not many software that uses the hardware its a waste. I will get kentsfield, K8L or Yorkfield when they r mainstream and can be have for $300 , $500.

 

[swtethan]

i want the Q6600


thats what ill be waiting for


The fact that i wont need a $300 ageia physx card for physics calculations is a pretty good reason.

 

[BrownTown]

Just a little note on the multicore future. Intel has stated that it would stop at 4 cores for the desktop segment for the time being, so 8 and 16 arent gonna come nearly as quickly as 4 came from 2.

 

[dexvx]

I predict Aegeia stock going downhill.

 

[theteamaqua]

yeah i wanna burn $500 on one these suckers but i need more reason (games perhaps) than just Alanwake.

 

[kmtyb]

Kentsfield parts are not gonna OC too well over air. I have Step 0 2.4GHz Kentsfield ES running at stock with Scythe Infinity: 56-58 idle, 60-62 full load

 

[Bobthelost]

I want one but I don't want to pay for one.

 

[eelw]

Nope. I already wanted Kentsfield like 2 weeks ago when Tom's Hardware released those scary benchmarks of the quad cores.

 

[A5]

I dropped $350 on a Opteron 165 this Spring, so I'm done for awhile

 

[myocardia]

I'll buy one as soon as it actually benefits me, and is reasonably priced. So, 12-18 months is a good guess, IMO. Of course, I'm a gamer, not a multi-tasker, and I don't own any SMP-enabled software. The hard core multi-taskers, plus those people who have spent $1-2,000 on Adobe software, will feel differently, I'm sure.

 

[theteamaqua]

yeah im thinking when i can have kentsfield of any clock for $400 to $500 thats when i iwll get it

 

[SparkyJJO]

$1k for kentsfield CPU itself, have to replace my mobo and RAM as well.... no thanks.

Later? I don't know but I doubt it. Single core now does everything I want it to, so by the time I actually feel the pinch and need dual core that will be outdated by the quad core.....

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
$1k for kentsfield CPU itself, have to replace my mobo and RAM as well.... no thanks.

Later? I don't know but I doubt it. Single core now does everything I want it to, so by the time I actually feel the pinch and need dual core that will be outdated by the quad core.....

You're very right. And at that time, dual-core will be dirt cheap, just like single core is today.

 

[CrystalBay]

I just wanna play Remedys newest game...This game looks and sounds so friggin badass... and I'm sure it will be considering the devs.

 

[n7]

Heh, i am not that excited about it.

Just as i expected, everything's shifted over to a big parallelism push.

But aside from video, there's really no benefit for us, nevermind the average user.

Software is so far behind hardware these days IMO...

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: n7
Software is so far behind hardware these days IMO...

At least 2 years, IMO.

 

[lopri]

If we all be honest and think about it for a moment, it's obvious that the anticipation for the Core 2 Duo came from it's single-thread performance. If only benchmark that C2D wins is 3dsMax, we wouldn't have been so excited. Likewise, I'd pick C2D @3.6GHz over C2Q @3.0GHz.

 

[Markfw]

What is Alanwake ? I googled, and found nothing but a movie.

 

[Skott]

I'll wait til next year when prices are better. A Conroe now will be plenty for gaming for at least a year IMO. However, those buying now may want to look into making sure their mobo choice is Quad Core ready.

 

[Regs]

Will AlenWake support dual core performance? Or "optimized for dual core" ?

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Regs
Will AlenWake support dual core performance? Or "optimized for dual core" ?

They said it will run on a HT-enabled P4 with reduced physics and special effects etc. It will probably still be playable on a dual-core, but will get a fair speed-up from quad-core. It was explained that they would have one core(thread) doing physics, one doing sound, another doing streaming operations to keep the world data up to date without loading screens, and another doing AI and every thing else. My guess is that at the very least the sound thread doesn't use up a lot of CPU-power and going from dual to quad core might only net you somewhere in the ball park of 10% to 20% over a similar dual-core. This was the probably the only game Intel could find that was at all faster on a quad core chip than a dual.

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
What is Alanwake ? I googled, and found nothing but a movie.

Some game that is utilizes multi-core to the extreme.

Basically instead of forcing people to buy a stupid Aegiea physics accelerater, it uses one of the cores for physics instead. I certainly think its headed in the right direction, because I forsee most of the market using Quad-Core before Aegiea even remotely becomes common.

 

[n19htmare]

http://www.gameklip.com/v/1606/

Those still confused about Alanwake and Quad core... Here's a small vid

 

[JackBurton]

I do more than just game on my machine, so no, Alanwake was just a cool bonus for me.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: swtethan
i want the Q6600


thats what ill be waiting for


The fact that i wont need a $300 ageia physx card for physics calculations is a pretty good reason.

That's dependant on the game developer. See Alan wake was coded to offload the physics onto a seperate core. If someone wants to support the Physix cards they can code for that.

It's not immediately going to mean that every game from now on will load physics onto a seperate core.