i9 Six-core Gulftown Recently Sold on Ebay for $1200

[aigomorla]

You still dickering around with Gulftown steppings Aigo? I figured you'd have moved on to an A0 Interlagos or A0 Sandy Bridge by now What's the slow-up about? You're losing your edge man, falling behind the 1337 crowd I see

im getting a B0 gulftown soon. :rofl:

im even asking my sponsor on sending me that Q3QT so i can shut up all the people who says LGA1366 has no quadcore.

How much further can i be?

Oh u mean the 48 core monster?
Im sorry IDC my connections ARENT that godly. ()

 

[Gillbot]

You still dickering around with Gulftown steppings Aigo? I figured you'd have moved on to an A0 Interlagos or A0 Sandy Bridge by now What's the slow-up about? You're losing your edge man, falling behind the 1337 crowd I see

Oh man, you just knocked his high horse down a few pegs...... HAHAHAHAHAH!

 

[Idontcare]

im getting a B0 gulftown soon. :rofl:

im even asking my sponsor on sending me that Q3QT so i can shut up all the people who says LGA1366 has no quadcore.

How much further can i be?

Oh u mean the 48 core monster?
Im sorry IDC my connections ARENT that godly. ()

As Gillbot noted, I'm just having some friendly banter at your expense Aigo. Take it as a form of flattery

Polaris Jr sounds interesting, but I'm more intrigued by the prospects of Bulldozer and whatever Sandy Bridge brings to the enthusiast arena. 45nm no longer holds and sex-appeal for me, show me those about-to-be-legal 32nm chips!

 

[aigomorla]

As Gillbot noted, I'm just having some friendly banter at your expense Aigo. Take it as a form of flattery

i am...

show me those about-to-be-legal 32nm chips!

Im really interested in these 32nm 12meg cache quad cores.
And im trying to have him send me one to play with.

Although my sponsor is asking me why i want one, when i got a B0 gulfy being sent over. :\

 

[exar333]

i am...




Im really interested in these 32nm 12meg cache quad cores.
And im trying to have him send me one to play with.

Although my sponsor is asking me why i want one, when i got a B0 gulfy being sent over. :\

I would LOVE to know how those 32nm Quads OC...if the 6-core gulftowns OC as good as the rumors say, these could be real beasts. Maybe we will get lucky and the quads will be hexacores with two cores disabled Ph II x3-X4 anyone?

 

[dmens]

Intel doesn't push it with ebay because it's easier for them to trace the source after buying the chip. Plus it gives them evidence to pursue action agains the source and seller.

+1. Part of the cost-cutting Intel is going through right now is to clamp down on the ES giveaways. It certainly is quite tempting. If a B0 gulftown goes for $1200 on ebay, I have a couple million dollars worth of sellable inventory within 20 yards of my lab chair.

How much is a 2 foot high stack of trays loaded with clarksfields worth? LOL, maybe somewhat more than a couple million dollars.

 

[aigomorla]

I would LOVE to know how those 32nm Quads OC...if the 6-core gulftowns OC as good as the rumors say, these could be real beasts. Maybe we will get lucky and the quads will be hexacores with two cores disabled Ph II x3-X4 anyone?

Thats kinda what i was thinking,

Maybe Dmens wants to clear things up for us since i spilled the beans.

But i saw 4 cores 8 threads 32nm westmere-EP's.



Q3QT guys.

 

[Rubycon]

Honestly I'd rather have a DUAL core CPU with each core running at 5+ GHz with higher IOPS. It certainly would be much faster on current code.

Why are we stuck in 3GHz wasteland? These six core CPU are running at 2.4GHz and will be NO FASTER in single threaded apps which dominate the real world use out there...

 

[dmens]

Honestly I'd rather have a DUAL core CPU with each core running at 5+ GHz with higher IOPS. It certainly would be much faster on current code.

Why are we stuck in 3GHz wasteland? These six core CPU are running at 2.4GHz and will be NO FASTER in single threaded apps which dominate the real world use out there...

reaching speeds beyond the design target speed/power landing zone requires boosts in voltage. power/voltage is generally a squared relationship as opposed to linear, so power quickly gets out of control.

A 5+ ghz x86 design with current CMOS technology would require some radical architectural innovation.

 

[dmens]

Thats kinda what i was thinking,

Maybe Dmens wants to clear things up for us since i spilled the beans.

But i saw 4 cores 8 threads 32nm westmere-EP's.



Q3QT guys.

i think they are 6-core with 2 disabled. if so they should OC very well, 1366 has a lot of room for heat to dissipate and 4-core puts less stress on the power distribution circuits.

 

[Gillbot]

Honestly I'd rather have a DUAL core CPU with each core running at 5+ GHz with higher IOPS. It certainly would be much faster on current code.

Why are we stuck in 3GHz wasteland? These six core CPU are running at 2.4GHz and will be NO FASTER in single threaded apps which dominate the real world use out there...

Because everyone has been duped into thinking more cores = more better. I've gotten into this debate more times than I care to count.

 

[nyker96]

I wonder what it'll fetch if they have an open bidding.

 

[SHAQ]

I was just dreaming of this CPU recently. lol I want a 5Ghz quad more than a 4Ghz 6 core. I didn't know if they would actually make it for the 1366 though. Good news.

 

[cbn]

Oh i just heard from my vendor pal, he got a few chips in.
Q3QT .. guys it shows up as a westmere-EP.. has 12meg cache... but guess what... its a 32nm QUAD CORE.

YES LGA1366 finally has a 32nm quadcore in a code Q3QT with 12Meg cache. and not 8 meg cache.

This is the best reason to buy a X58 right now. I can't wait to see the benchmarks on this CPU.

Hopefully it won't be much over $300.

 

[Rubycon]

Because everyone has been duped into thinking more cores = more better. I've gotten into this debate more times than I care to count.

Well in theory it would be true if the software was there but it's not!

 

[cbn]

I just hope all X58s will be able to run this new 32nm 12 mb cache quad core.

I also wonder how well the extra shared cache will scale?

 

[aigomorla]

I just hope all X58s will be able to run this new 32nm 12 mb cache quad core.

I also wonder how well the extra shared cache will scale?

works on a giggy, classy, and R2E so far.

Sorry cant show u the screenies.

But take my word for it.

Cant tell ya anymore about them as i dont have it.
All i saw was a email from my friend with a title going 4core 32nm and a sku.

I know a few people who started showing them off, but its all private showing.

 

[Idontcare]

Well in theory it would be true if the software was there but it's not!

It wouldn't be so bad if they'd get a little more aggressive on their turbo-mode partitioning. I want to see something as aggressive as what Anand lays out here:

source: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3641

If a single core on Gulftown can clock at 3GHz and fit inside 16W then you can clock a single core all the way up to 5GHz and leave yourself the flexibility to boost Vcore by 60% and still have your TDP fit inside 95W.

 

[cbn]

It wouldn't be so bad if they'd get a little more aggressive on their turbo-mode partitioning. I want to see something as aggressive as what Anand lays out here:

source: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3641

If a single core on Gulftown can clock at 3GHz and fit inside 16W then you can clock a single core all the way up to 5GHz and leave yourself the flexibility to boost Vcore by 60% and still have your TDP fit inside 95W.

I think a lot of people would like to see something like that.

 

[Gillbot]

Well in theory it would be true if the software was there but it's not!

Oh, i'm on your side. One of my best chips was still a C2D that would run nearly 5Ghz and it handled everything I threw at it better than my lower clocked quad.

 

[JFAMD]

The buyer would no doubt be AMD

Highly unlikely.

 

[cbn]

The trouble with "Turbo mode" on tiny individual cores might be getting the heat spreader to work right (among other things I'm sure).

 

[jvroig]

Highly unlikely.

Like his Aigo remark in the same post, of course IDC was just kidding.

Since we're on that topic anyway, would there be no benefit to R&D in getting an actual working to-be-released chip from the competition? Would any useful information be discernible from a working chip that wasn't in the roadmaps/previews/press releases of Intel?

 

[ghost recon88]

How long have the fabs been producing the "B0" revisions Gulftowns?

 

[exar333]

i think they are 6-core with 2 disabled. if so they should OC very well, 1366 has a lot of room for heat to dissipate and 4-core puts less stress on the power distribution circuits.

One of the few complaints about the i7 was it's relatively low L3 cache amount, I am excited to see what a quad can do with the extra 4MB cache.