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Posted on 01-08-09 04:55:05 PM (last edited by Fate Testarossa at 01-08-09 02:00 PM) Link | Quote
Good god, Intel...

It's been mentioned over the years...it just got brought up again by Dell thinking of possibly getting on the bandwagon for it fairly soon.

EDIT: (forgot this) Here's that statement...

For those of you who've been out of the loop (myself included) apparently Intel's been pledging this since 2006 to be done by 2011.

"So not only will it play Crysis on very high but it will also run at 10,000 FPS."

You know...with the more cores this thing is getting...think about the memory latency and having to keep up with managing all those cores at once. That's got to be a definite bottleneck...

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Posted on 01-09-09 01:14:44 AM Link | Quote



See Also: "When is the speed of light not fast enough?"
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Imagine the heat it must produce.

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Posted on 01-09-09 01:21:48 AM Link | Quote
It apparently uses less wattage than current desktop models.

So apparently not that much if at all that much as what we're at now, probably.

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Posted on 01-09-09 01:25:59 AM (last edited by CarCat at 01-08-09 10:26 PM) Link | Quote

Originally posted by Fate Testarossa
It apparently uses less wattage than current desktop models.

So apparently not that much if at all that much as what we're at now, probably.


Great, because if that is the case, maybe they'll work for no heat sink at all...

Ok, maybe not that far, but still.

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Posted on 01-09-09 01:27:09 AM Link | Quote
We've needed heatsinks since...at least...the 486 days.

Keep dreaming.

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Posted on 01-09-09 01:29:10 AM Link | Quote



Originally posted by Fate Testarossa
Keep dreaming.


Eh, what we didn't think was possible. :/

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Posted on 01-09-09 03:23:58 AM Link | Quote
I'd much rather see companies increase the speed/computing power of individual cores, since there are still so many programs that can't fully take advantage of multiple cores. Or have they hit a wall and just can't make them any faster?

All this multi-core insanity as of late just seems like an expensive e-peener wagging contest...

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Posted on 01-09-09 03:25:21 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by BMF54123
I'd much rather see companies increase the speed/computing power of individual cores, since there are still so many programs that can't fully take advantage of multiple cores. Or have they hit a wall and just can't make them any faster?

All this multi-core insanity as of late just seems like an expensive e-peener wagging contest...

I recall reading that they've pretty much hit a wall.

Graphite was supposed to be faster, but they're working out ways of using it that don't cause it to melt.

Eh.

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Posted on 01-09-09 03:30:48 AM (last edited by Fate Testarossa at 01-09-09 12:31 AM) Link | Quote
Silicon has more that reached its limit last I checked. They were talking about the theoretical limit being reached right around the time the Pentium II came out...then the P3 hit a wall and then P4 burst forth for as long as it did.

But I really think that, this time, the best they can do now is push for what it's worth and go from there. RAM latencies from multi-core accesses aside, that's the best they can do until they get something stable.

Heck, why do you think they were pushing for GPU overtaking the CPU as of late?

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They should remove all the bottlenecks now. Now if all the components in a computer ran at 3 GHz solid, I'd spit out my drink at the breathtakingly insane speed.

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Posted on 01-09-09 11:05:06 AM (last edited by Microworm at 01-09-09 08:05 AM) Link | Quote
sure.

i think having a 80-core processor isn't very useful yet. most programs can use only 1 core, sometimes 2.

Originally posted by Fate Testarossa
You know...with the more cores this thing is getting...think about the memory latency and having to keep up with managing all those cores at once. That's got to be a definite bottleneck...


yeah. you're right. there's the problem of memory latency, but also managing memory accesses from several cores at the same time, keeping the cores sync together, ...


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Posted on 01-11-09 05:10:10 PM Link | Quote

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Originally posted by Gig
Graphite was supposed to be faster, but they're working out ways of using it that don't cause it to melt.
I vaguely remember hearing something about carbon nanotubes or something along that line.

Course I dont think it's fully been tested yet so, yeah, that wall still exists =/

Originally posted by Microworm
i think having a 80-core processor isn't very useful yet. most programs can use only 1 core, sometimes 2.
Yeah, but if you want to run 40 programs all at once you can do it. Multiple cores are good for multitasking.

My brother told me of his adventures at the 2007 Game Dev. Conference where they demoed an 8 core processor, had WoW, Halo, Photoshop, and a few other programs running all at once.

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