Intel 32nm Processor coming soon!

[Malevolence 6]

I'll see how it goes by the end of this year. If Gulftown is overkill and way too expensive, I may just get Intel Core i5G (32nm) or the old Intel Core i7 (cheaper by then as Gulftown will pwn i7)

 

 

I still prefer my dual cores.

 

Dual cores will be replaced by newer "dual cores" which has Hyper Threading, making it 4 threads, coming out soon.

Edited February 18, 2009 by Malevolence

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hyper threading has been out for a long time, longer than multi core cpus

[BioBen 3]

Yeah and a hyperthreaded single core isn't as good as a dual core

[Mighty BOB! 5]

That's because Intel's first foray in to hyperthreading was a dismal failure. Why do you think they removed HT from all of their dual-core procs and all of their quad-cores until the i7?

 

I have an i7 and I have HT enabled which gives me "8" cores and the performance is excellent.

[Hans5849 0]

That's because Intel's first foray in to hyperthreading was a dismal failure. Why do you think they removed HT from all of their dual-core procs and all of their quad-cores until the i7?

 

I have an i7 and I have HT enabled which gives me "8" cores and the performance is excellent.

 

Hyperthreading wasn't a failure it was the process that the Pentium 4 was built on that was. Northwood and Precsott were not clock efficient processors as Intel tried to keep the CPU frequency war going, but they gave up on that with the Banias processor which lead to Dothan. Then came the Core architecture and a step back if you like to think of it that way to the Pentium 3's processor design.

 

There is a point where more cores actually slows down the processor and makes it less efficient.

 

The processor to look out for the Lynnfield or the I7 variant (lynnfield being I5), it will remove the northbridge (like AMD) and allow the processor to talk straight to the video cards.

Edited February 19, 2009 by Hans5849