Intel to intro Core 2 Quad very soon
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Intel to intro Core 2 Quad at CES?
By Tony Smith
28th December 2006
Intel will formally launch its already announced four-core Core 2 Quad processor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in less than two week's time, it has been claimed.
The allegation - made by industry sources cited by IDG - comes as no surprise. Intel announced the quad-core Q6600 chip for mainstream desktops at its Developer Conference last September and pointed to a Q1 2007 introduction. It hinted at an earlier rather than later appearance.
CES is a clear choice for the Q6600's debut, having become a launch platform not only for the year's major consumer electronics releases but also many of the key IT offerings too.
Intel has kept quiet on the part's specifications, but since the Q6600 is essentially a lower-clocked version of the four-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700, we can say it will have 8MB of L2 cache split into two banks of 4MB each shared by two cores. The Core 2 Quad is two Core 2 Duos bonded together in a single package, and it's expected to be clocked at 2.4GHz.
The part is expected to be priced at $851, well above the $530 Core 2 Duo E6700 and some way below the $999 Core 2 Extreme QX6700. That positions the part as a high-end product, though claims that Intel will cut its price to $530 in Q2 2007 points to a rapid push into mainstream Core 2 Duo territory. That said, the company's own projections apparently have quad-core accounting for only a small percentage of its desktop CPU shipments throughout 2007. -
so how?? if its time for me to change PC...so I should wait more?
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Given that Core 2 Quad costs somewhere between Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Duo, I'm expecting that the performance is somewhere in between these 2.
Maybe I'm wrong.
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The Qual core has already released.
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The performance for Core 2 Quad is greater than core 2 duo X6800.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Given that Core 2 Quad costs somewhere between Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Duo, I'm expecting that the performance is somewhere in between these 2.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Shall see the reviews in LA next month. -
Core 2 Quad is not... if I'm not wrong...
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QX6700 is greater than X6800. I have seen the performance benchmark.
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overkill in my opinion, very few applications will actually make use of the four cores simultaneously.Sure, it may make your encoding a little faster but are you willing to pay the $?
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It's better for Windows Vista Ultimate.Originally posted by orionlight:overkill in my opinion, very few applications will actually make use of the four cores simultaneously.Sure, it may make your encoding a little faster but are you willing to pay the $? -
Better in what sense, care to enlighten?I believe the core 2 duo can run the vista(premium, ultimate etc whatever the nonsense names M$ have come up) just fine with less damage to your pocketOriginally posted by GSL:It's better for Windows Vista Ultimate. -
all quotes from Intel shows that prices will drop. I would advise you to wait at least till March 2007 PC show and then decide.Originally posted by Mid9Sun:so how?? if its time for me to change PC...so I should wait more?
Dual Cores Pentium D versions are a gonna, similarly for Core Duo....these prices will fall very fast as parts are no longer available since these fabs will be upgraded to produce Core 2 Duo and Core Quad.
As Core 2 Quad and AMD's octop-u-s-s-y...
comes along....you can expect to see further price drops.
The strategy is wait till March, then buy a Core 2 Duo....good enough...dun buy the new stuff.
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yup, orion's right....cuz now not all softwares, etc are making use of duo or quad cores effectively....even games....will take time for their programmers to write codes to use the multi-cores effectively though.Originally posted by orionlight:overkill in my opinion, very few applications will actually make use of the four cores simultaneously.Sure, it may make your encoding a little faster but are you willing to pay the $?
But for modeling, simulation people like me, its good. Even servers will multi-cores allows more on-line options, with possibly less downtime. -
unless u wan use ur com as a server, i dun think anyone would need so many cores..
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Core 2 Quad can be like a Pentium 4 Extreme during the Pentium era
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Try doing crazy things all at the same time with a Quad Core.
P2p, host a game online, watch a movie and encode mp3s or videos all at the same time. One core for each application