tgdaily.com — Intel's first quad-core processor 'Kentsfield' has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom's Hardware was able to obtain a qualification sample: The chip was sent through the test parcours, showing impressive performance.
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marc26ukSep 11, 2006
Yeah, competition is great : )
nighthawkeSep 11, 2006
Buried for inaccuracy and spam-filled pages.
paynexSep 11, 2006
4 cores for less irritation
mikecermSep 11, 2006
Before reading the article, I thought that FSB would be a problem for Intel. FSB is obviously very close to saturation, and so they've even increased it to 1333 MHz. That 20% increase (over 1066) made little difference, so I'm thinking the tighter bottleneck is elsewhere.
cavengerSep 11, 2006
Core 2 Quadro won't be out in mainstream for a while. It's not like we don't have a choice but to wait.
obkenobiSep 11, 2006
"200 Watts for 4 cores.... quick math.... 50 Watts a core! That's fine with me. It *might* necessitate water cooling though."Surprisingly, it doesn't get that hot. It's no worse than a P4 Extreme Edition."Will gaming companies be so naive to code for it?"NO. But they could optimize their code for multi-core processors of all kinds. And this should allow more advanced multiplayer games. E.g. 128 players + bots?
shrewduserSep 11, 2006
"I sware some people act like they download linux iso's constantly.. it must be a collection or something"sorry maybe i should explain myself, in Australia the term "linux iso's" is interchangeable for "pr0n and warez"....
mufasaSep 12, 2006
a guy working at a norwegian eTailer actually managed to get his hands on a Kentsfield ES over a month ago :O<a class="user" href="http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/it/article695857.ece">http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/it/article695857.ece</a>- thats from July 28th -