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50W Quad Core Xeon announced
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:05 am
by kentc
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:13 pm
by NeilBlanchard
Hello,
Notice that this Intel "quad core" is actually two dual cores (dual dual cores?) on a single substrate; whereas the AMD Barcelona is a single piece of silicon. Communications between the cores via Hypertranport is better on the AMD, too.
50watts is impressive -- but is it a "true" maximum, or an "average" number?
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:47 am
by =assassin=
Sounds interesting..... I'll be waiting for desktop quad cores to become cheap and low power though myself. If they're still able to use DDR2 RAM, I might consider an upgrade this time next year.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:42 am
by Aris
ditto as above. show me a desktop chip with quad cores and a maximum thermal power of 50w, and i'll be impressed.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:02 pm
by J. Sparrow
It's Intel, their TDP of 50 W probably refers to a turned-off PC
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:20 pm
by accord1999
J. Sparrow wrote:It's Intel, their TDP of 50 W probably refers to a turned-off PC
Yonah would disagree with you, 31W TDP and only 25.4W measured power consumption.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article313-page5.html
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:37 am
by nemo
i am so waiting for a pricedrop in the desktop quads. drool.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:42 pm
by Poodle
The Intel quads are quite hot running... Some guy at XS measured almost 800W with his C2Q SLI rigg. 500w+ with one gfx card and his uber psu had problems running it. This is overclocked of course. It's still quite amazing imo.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:54 am
by the_smell
You have to ask why you need a system that moster-like in cases like that... Maybe I'm olnly jealous
I can run pretty much any modern game smoothly at 1920x1200 on my humble dual core, single (not cutting edge) graphics card system. Wouldn't like to think how loud that psu got at 800W!
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:36 am
by J. Sparrow
Quad cores are perfect to enter the top spots in the leaderboards of distributed computing projects
There's always a way to use more power, I have no doubts our humble dual-cores will be rendered completely obsolete in just a few months.
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:18 pm
by Mariner
J. Sparrow wrote:Quad cores are perfect to enter the top spots in the leaderboards of distributed computing projects
Unless PS3s or multi-GPU systems get there first!