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Kentsfield november 14th?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:00 pm
by DW_Hornet
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:54 pm
by Zax_Gentoo_Box
Kentsfield? What's Kentsfield?
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:01 pm
by DW_Bomzin
Ken........
U need to try this Google thingy it's all the rave Google.com
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:16 pm
by DW_ToxicWaste
They also speculate that AMD will be right behind them with 4x4. That may be even more interesting for me.
Rich (TW)
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:32 pm
by 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*
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:10 pm
by 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).
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:49 pm
by 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.)
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:43 pm
by DW_Hornet
I believe its cloverton your talking about. Those are server/workstation class processors. Kentsfield is the desktop varient.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:29 pm
by zeus
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