digitmag.co.uk — Intel and AMD's plans for this year and early 2008. New chipsets, faster bus speeds, AMD's forthcoming octocore monster with maybe as much as 24MB of L2 cache, new budget CPUs, and improved Core 2 Duos. It looks like 2007 is going to be the biggest leap in processor development in years.
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dtd00dJan 9, 2007
I meant in terms of CPU's; you can't run a game solely on a video card....Or can you?
maninblac1Jan 10, 2007
Is it me, or does this article contain several obvious technical inaccuracies? Or at least, as i read it the author sounds confused about wth he's talking about."the bulk of the company's processor road map revolves around the Core microprocessor architecture, formerly code-named "Merom." "Ya wanna run that by me again their cheif!?! What's the name of that code name for core, oh right, isn't it CORE? Merom and Conroe and Woodcrest were all Core, and all the same essentially.or"Core 2 processors are based on the Core architecture; so-called Core processors were based on the company's previous Pentium 4/M architecture.) "How about Pentium M and PIII architectures, yet only a distant relative?I can't digg this article, it goes against my principles.
steveoondyouJan 10, 2007
wellll sticking with the main question, i feel that games will eventually start taking advantage of the multi-core procs and we will eventually be able to get very very life-like games. FPS's will most likely require a lot of physics for explosions and having multiple cores will ultimately allow them to be very pretty (woot for productive advancements in technology...). So, games are going to get exponentially better from here on out. We just broke the surface of what is to come. ~Steve.
shinynewJan 10, 2007
@milambyr Not all applications benifit from 64 bit. But yea i want something more then firefox, HL2, and farcry to be 64 bit compatible.
obkenobiJan 10, 2007Submitter
[quote]"...perhaps we are reaching a plateau?"[/quote]Things are just starting to get interesting.
xtheeliminatorJan 10, 2007
A Hypertransport derivative and the integrated FBDIMM memory controller has been promised in 2009 with the next socket and architecture revision. Until then they'll just keep hacking extra cores and cache, and ramping the FSB on their Core 2 architecture.
stevethegreatJan 10, 2007
I' holding off for 8 cores and then for 16 and then for 32...... naaah I think 2000 cores would be right (until 4000 cores would be out and then 8000 cores ....).Or just buy what you need it when you need it and stop worrying what's new coming out the following months, it will never stop.