jaganath wrote:Of course it'd help to know the thermal values for tri and quad core K8L processors so I'd have some concept of total power draw for a high end AM2 system when dual core becomes entry level and quad core is not terribly uncommon.
That won't be before 2008 at the earliest, so there's no rush. I doubt a quadcore K8L will use much more than current top-end procs, AMD seems to cut power consumption with every new generation of CPU's, also they will be going to 65nm etc.
Dual core AMD processors will be under $200 in just about a month. July 24th 2006 is when the price drop for X2 is supposed to hit.
Quad core AMD processors are supposed to be out in early 2007 and by Summer 2007 the EOL (End of Life) models of the early X2 lines will be entry level if my guess is right.
Both INTC and AMD will push dual core and higher for back to school 2006 and Christmas 2006. By Spring 2007 you won't think of dual core as anything that remarkable it will be so over advertised...
Tak a look at the X2 prices from late next month and guess how cheap the EOL 939 parts will get this fall.
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3800 ??? 169
4000 --- ---
4200 ??? 240
4400 ??? ---
4600 ??? 301
4800 ??? ---
5000 --- 403
We can debate the concepts of "entry level" and "uncommon" but the point stands that the parts are coming and I'd like to know the next Power supply I buy could hold its own with a dual socket AM2 quad core (8 cores) setup and still be quiet and effecient at 200w DC load.
In case you didn't know (any many don't yet). The Quad core chips will power down or change clock rate independently. If you are truly idling a quad core can become a single core temporarily or use 1 core at full power with 1, 2 or 3, cores at 33% clock speed and/or off and/or full speed.
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