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Matt Vanecek · July 15th, 2009, 02:37 PM

Great. I've had my quad-core i7 for barely 6 months, and find out about 6-core Opterons...

AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineup | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Adam Gold · July 15th, 2009, 03:36 PM

You'll never keep up with the latest and greatest. Don't even try. That road leads to madness.

Ken Hodson · July 16th, 2009, 04:47 PM

Opteron is a sever chip. Requires a server board and registered ram.
For a home class workstation I think you did fine. But there were 8 cpu MB's (times 4cores each) available long before you bought your i7.

Kevin Duffey · July 16th, 2009, 05:14 PM

I believe Intel is working on 8-core chips for next year. Not sure tho if they will be available for server only market or us pc builders by next year.

Brian Luce · July 18th, 2009, 09:10 PM

When will they offer quads etc in laptops? Even the MBP is just dual core. is it the battery drain?

Kevin Duffey · July 18th, 2009, 11:19 PM

Battery is part of it, heat is another. The core 2 duo's are already lap burners. They need to find ways to reduce heat output, or cool them better in a laptop form. It will happen tho, just not sure when.

Mel Enriquez · July 19th, 2009, 05:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Luce

When will they offer quads etc in laptops? Even the MBP is just dual core. is it the battery drain?

I've wondered that myself. Last Dec 28, 2008, Intel announced a couple of quadcore chips for laptops. One was around 2.4ghz if I am not mistaken and it is in the U$349 for the chip. I was glad because I thought we'd have one by mid-2009, for something like U$1,200-1,800. But it's almost 3rd Q now and nothing. I guess, the economic crisis made many notebook makers wary. Plus the great boom on the netbooks, quad core laptops were the least of their concern and the market there seems small.

There were some quad notebooks, but their prices were atrocious at U$2,800-3,500. They have large LCDs, have powerful GPUs, and poor battery life (1 hour only). They were for gamers on the go or power workstations on the go. Not for editors or multimedia specialists, though you can use them for that. But it was not practical. Try lugging one that is around 10-12lbs and 19" LCD to do an SDE for a wedding!

Now Intel is readying i7 based chips for 3rd or 4th Q 2009 release. We'll see if we'll finally have a quadcore notebook. We should have them. Normally, it's about 1 year after a major chip revision (i7s are major). And it should not be more than 18 months. But of course the economic crisis, and all other things going on might change what they will offer.

We'll see. But if they can build an i7 notebook for U$1,200-1,800, I'd be happy. For sure, there will be one. Whether we'll see it this year or next year is the real question.

Jack Falbey · July 19th, 2009, 04:20 PM

You can get Core2 Quads in Dell & HP laptops, and Core i7 Quads in Sagers & Lenovos right now.

Jeff Harper · July 23rd, 2009, 11:17 PM

The Intel chips coming out in the next six months or so are to be, as has been said, 8 core with 16 effective threads. They will be awesome and 1366 compatible, so it appears a new mobo for i7 users will not be necessary.

Richard Andrewski · August 1st, 2009, 09:52 PM

This is great. Once USB 3 and Sata III come out, in combination with RAIDed SSDs, we'll really be set.

Tim Polster · August 2nd, 2009, 02:53 PM

Your right.

The SSDs sound really exciting. Like the best upgrade for your system since the first Intel chip.

As far as AMD, I would never stray from Intel. The industry is built around Intel chips and hardware just has a better chance of working at its best when you use their chips.

Trond Saetre · September 29th, 2009, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brian Luce

When will they offer quads etc in laptops? Even the MBP is just dual core. is it the battery drain?

Sager laptops are available with Quad core CPU. (that's desktop CPU)
I bought mine (the Sager NP9262) a year ago from xoticpc.com.

Gints Klimanis · September 29th, 2009, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Polster

The SSDs sound really exciting. Like the best upgrade for your system since the first Intel chip.

SSDs are just becoming interesting due to speed and capacity increases. Check here for speed increases, although the recent addition of the RAM disk has made the bar charts unreadable. Still, consider the RAM disk for WinXP users that need a very fast scratch "disk".

PassMark Software - Hard Drive Benchmark Charts

SSDs are also less interesting because they become slower and show data corruption with time. What's scarier? Losing your whole drive at one time or inaccurate writes ?

July 15th, 2009, 02:37 PM	#1
Matt Vanecek Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Denton, TX Posts: 334	6-coreOpteron Great. I've had my quad-core i7 for barely 6 months, and find out about 6-core Opterons... AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineup \| Between the Lines \| ZDNet.com

July 16th, 2009, 04:47 PM	#3
Ken Hodson Trustee Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posts: 1,315	Opteron is a sever chip. Requires a server board and registered ram. For a home class workstation I think you did fine. But there were 8 cpu MB's (times 4cores each) available long before you bought your i7. __________________ Damnit Jim, I'm a film maker not a sysytems tech.

July 19th, 2009, 04:20 PM	#8
Jack Falbey Regular Crew Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Cleveland, TN Posts: 45	You can get Core2 Quads in Dell & HP laptops, and Core i7 Quads in Sagers & Lenovos right now. __________________ "We'll fix it in post," said no videographer, EVER!

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Richard Andrewski Major Player Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Shenzhen, China Posts: 781	This is great. Once USB 3 and Sata III come out, in combination with RAIDed SSDs, we'll really be set. __________________ Richard Andrewski - Cool Lights USA - RED #114 http://www.coollights.biz

July 15th, 2009, 03:36 PM	#2
Adam Gold Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Woodinville, WA USA Posts: 3,467	You'll never keep up with the latest and greatest. Don't even try. That road leads to madness.

July 16th, 2009, 05:14 PM	#4
Kevin Duffey Major Player Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: California Posts: 206	I believe Intel is working on 8-core chips for next year. Not sure tho if they will be available for server only market or us pc builders by next year.

July 18th, 2009, 09:10 PM	#5
Brian Luce Inner Circle Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,290	When will they offer quads etc in laptops? Even the MBP is just dual core. is it the battery drain?

July 18th, 2009, 11:19 PM	#6
Kevin Duffey Major Player Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: California Posts: 206	Battery is part of it, heat is another. The core 2 duo's are already lap burners. They need to find ways to reduce heat output, or cool them better in a laptop form. It will happen tho, just not sure when.

July 23rd, 2009, 11:17 PM	#9
Jeff Harper Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 8,425	The Intel chips coming out in the next six months or so are to be, as has been said, 8 core with 16 effective threads. They will be awesome and 1366 compatible, so it appears a new mobo for i7 users will not be necessary.

August 2nd, 2009, 02:53 PM	#11
Tim Polster Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 2,231	Your right. The SSDs sound really exciting. Like the best upgrade for your system since the first Intel chip. As far as AMD, I would never stray from Intel. The industry is built around Intel chips and hardware just has a better chance of working at its best when you use their chips.