Kentsfield november 14th?

[DW_Hornet]

Thats what the inquirer claims.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35097

[Zax_Gentoo_Box]

Kentsfield? What's Kentsfield?

[DW_Bomzin]

Ken........

U need to try this Google thingy it's all the rave Google.com

[DW_ToxicWaste]

They also speculate that AMD will be right behind them with 4x4. That may be even more interesting for me.

Rich (TW)

[Zax_Gentoo_Box]

I remember my dad saying something about a quad-core processor, just not Kentsfield. I wonder what gaming magic a quad-core could do? *imagines clipping of Hornet's with a sniper rifle from 500feet*

[DW_Hornet]

He was probally refering to K8L, toxic i dont see why the 4x4 is of concern to you. There going to be dual 1207 sockets, requireing DDR2 and who knows if theyll support k8L (which i think is barcelona).

[zeus]

I believe that Cloverfield is the quad core coming from Intel. Apparently, it is just (just) 2 C2D on the same die. Some testing site (Tom's maybe?) swapped out the woodcrests on a MacPro and substituted in 2 cloverfields (8 cores!!).

It apparently screamed on things like media encoding, etc.

Not going to be terribly helpful until gaming programmers learn to multiprocess better. (Not an easy task.)

[DW_Hornet]

I believe its cloverton your talking about. Those are server/workstation class processors. Kentsfield is the desktop varient.

[zeus]

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