Core i9 ''Gulftown'' Comes to Life

[Kreij]

Ah, the Kriejman... is Dan's snide wit and impossible logic rubbing off on you?

Perhaps, my good friend hat, but there is no empirical evidence to suggest that is a bad thing.

Ugh.. I don't even want to start the cores and software argument... I've been through it too many times. But I will still say that most programs aren't optomized for multi-core yet

If you are talking about games, that is sadly true. They need to catch up and I think that most dev studios are heading in the right direction as far as core utilization goes.
If you are talking about general applications, there are many that utilize multi-core processors to their full advantage.
Remember, not every application needs to be a multi-threaded, multi-core powerhouse. I doesn't make any sense for a developer to pour effort into creating that kind of code, especially as the OS's get better at thread execution distribution between cores.

 

[REVHEAD]

This is not needed for gaming and wont be another 2 to 4 years away untill it is, most are struggling to multi thread for 2 cores and as for 4 cores I am yet to see a game were all 4 cores are @ 100% cpu usage.

Devs code for Console then port for PC these days, so even thinking about 6 cores or 8 isnt even in there ballpark, rushing to upgrade to this I9 is great for picking up other like minded geeks on the net if your into that kind of thing, but it certainly wont help you get the chicks, or even help your FPS in Real world games, but for benchmarking I can see it helping a great deal, as they can slap a refresh patch out for 3dmarks to help use the cores, but for coding a whole game I cant see it.

This chip would be great for a server, AMD are allready in the 8 core era and Intel know they had to bring soemthing out to compete.

 

[Animalpak]

This is not needed for gaming and wont be another 2 to 4 years away untill it is, most are struggling to multi thread for 2 cores and as for 4 cores I am yet to see a game were all 4 cores are @ 100% cpu usage.

Devs code for Console then port for PC these days, so even thinking about 6 cores or 8 isnt even in there ballpark, rushing to upgrade to this I9 is great for picking up other like minded geeks on the net if your into that kind of thing, but it certainly wont help you get the chicks, or even help your FPS in Real world games, but for benchmarking I can see it helping a great deal, as they can slap a refresh patch out for 3dmarks to help use the cores, but for coding a whole game I cant see it.

This chip would be great for a server, AMD are allready in the 8 core era and Intel know they had to bring soemthing out to compete.

You need this for get the chicks.

 

[REVHEAD]

You need this for get the chicks.


http://www.thesupercars.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/porsche-carrera-gt-2.jpg

Hell yeah that would bring them in in droves

 

[ShiBDiB]

new games coming out still dont all support 4 cores.... this is definetly overkill for a gamer

 

[Kreij]

new games coming out still dont all support 4 cores.... this is definetly overkill for a gamer

The word "overkill" is not in the vocabulary of most hard core TPU people, and if I remember correctly, using the word "overkill" on TPU can get you an infraction

Anyway, you are right in that many games do not support the cores, but the newer games will. It is for that reason that people building gaming rigs should not shun multi-core processors as it will make their rig a bit more future-proof.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Core i7 is more than enough for every game out there. Core i9 is only really useful for heavy, multithreaded applications (CAD, research, etc.).


Newer games won't because most of the market is still running dual-cores. Quad-core has to be mainstream before we start seeing some games that could put hexa-core to work.

 

[Konceptz]

Finally, my 9770 replacement is alive.....

 

[A Cheese Danish]

If I were to get one of these, I would probably use it strictly for folding/crunching, and maybe some leisure time merryment.
Gotta be able to play games at max settings every once in a while

 

[HammerON]

Imagine running Bionic WCG with this CPU ~
Oh the possibilities

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I would be buying the Xeon version instead of the Core i9 version in a server. Better to run 24/7.

 

[werez]

monster....

 

[buggalugs]

I dont think its completely true that 6 cores is useless. Even if games are not coded for more than 2 cores the new windows7 and DX11 has features for offloading onto as many cores as available.

Then again they made a lot of promises for DX 10 that didnt really pan out, i guess we have to wait and see.

 

[Nick89]

I'm just going to skip all these new processors until I can get an affordable 8-12 core processor.

My PII 940 should hold me over till then.

 

[legends84]

I'm just going to skip all these new processors until I can get an affordable 8-12 core processor.

My PII 940 should hold me over till then.

+1

 

[tastegw]

if they make the i9 920 version and price it $400 or less, im getting one and never looking back.

vantage would love this paired with a few next gen nvidia cards.

 

[eidairaman1]

So i assume that Core i9 is 2-way only where Core i7 is 1-way only only???

 

[btarunr]

So i assume that Core i9 is 2-way only where Core i7 is 1-way only only???

No, there will be Xeon 2P parts, Xeon 1P, and Core i9 1P, just like how the current Bloomfield/Nehalem has Xeon 2P, 1P, Core i7 1P. Maybe there's a Core i9 2P for Skulltrail II platform too, I don't know.

 

[laszlo]

nice cpu but i don't thing i'll ever have one because i don't need it;even if future games or softs will be written to use multicore cpu's i think a quad will be enough for me and a lot of users also

just remember when the 1st quad appeared a few years ago how many softs were written to use it except the benchmark ones....even now is poorly implemented the point is we need better softs now not cpu's