Intel Question?

[shaanm]

Does anyone know when intel will come out with a quad core which is 4 cores on one die because i do not like amd that much

 

[Roguestar]

*sigh*

 

[Dewey]

You can buy one today.

 

[Roguestar]

Dewey: The kentsfield Core 2 Quad is two Core 2 Duo dies side by side on the one chip. I think he means "native" 4-core which AMD fans blabber on about when trying to slate the Core 2 Quad. If indeed he meants the latter, then it's a long wait he'll have.

 

[SexyK]

OP: Why do you care what's under the heat spreader if the performance is there? The folks waiting for "native" quad-core because they expect some massive performance gain when compared to Kentsfield are probably going to be disappointed. Anyway here is another option, but obviously if you're spending $900, might as well kick in $100 more and go for the QX linked above instead.

 

[shaanm]

i mean when is the true quad core coming out, its the one with 4 cores on one die, the current core 2 quads are two dual core chips glued together. which is basically two cores on 2 dies.

 

[Roguestar]

And what's so inferior about that?

 

[Ruptga]

Theoretically the current two-die setup is inferior to native quadcore, but realistically it doesn't make any difference whatsoever. Look up reviews over the old Pentium Ds, they did the same thing when they first came out, and there was no performance benefit when they went to native dualcore.

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: shaanm
i mean when is the true quad core coming out, its the one with 4 cores on one die, the current core 2 quads are two dual core chips glued together. which is basically two cores on 2 dies.

Does it really matter to you whether it's one piece of silicon or two? It's one package, one socket, 4 cores. It's been shown that Kentsfield isn't severely bandwidth limited, so I'm not sure why you'd wait for something with a very small performance edge, if any, rather than jump on Kentsfield now if you can use all 4 cores. If you can't use the 4 cores, then just get a Conroe.

And to answer the question anyway - it's looking like Yorkfield will be Intel's first single-die quad-core chip. Q307.

 

[piasabird]

There are only a few factors for any Processor.

Heat
Speed
Cache Memory
FSB

The most important factor is the actual Results on benchmarks and heat. If you get good results and lower heat, then the processor should last longer. Just be careful about motherboard benchmarks. I think they just handpick the best motherboards and you cant tell the overall quality of the average motherboard. I never buy the newest processors because I dont have a lot of cash to waste. If you take the last 3 processors released, the top end is like 1,000 to 600 and there may be a $400 difference in a slightly slower processor. Two Processors of the same model and speed are pretty much identical becaus of the quality requirements for processors. So benchmarks for processors are a good guideline for performance. There is often very little difference in performance.