Intel plans to ship quad-core processors in November 06 for servers and gaming PCs. Multiple vendors have plans to sell quad-core-based PCs for the high-end gaming market, including Dell and its Alienware division, Gateway, Velocity...
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Intel plans to ship quad-core processors in November 06 for servers and gaming PCs. Multiple vendors have plans to sell quad-core-based PCs for the high-end gaming market, including Dell and its Alienware division, Gateway, Velocity Micro, and Voodoo.
Extra cores in a chip allows the PC to split up heavy workloads.
Say you need some additional firepower for the latest online shooter and decide to assign three of the four cores of your Intel Quad Core CPU to that single application and run the rest of the applications on the remaining cpu core. That’s a valid scenario don’t you think? It does not have to be a game though, you could assign a cpu intense application to a core and the rest of the applications to another.
SMP Seesaw (via Download Squad ) is the application that you are looking for if you... Read Full Story
From time to time in my writing I have made reference to Moore’s Law ; which, phrased simply, means “the power of computers doubles every 18 months” (some say two years). I like Moore’s Law– smaller, faster, double the power (and often, power consumption is lower too).
Moore’s Law is most often comes up when speaking about CPU ’s (your computer’s “brain”). My first Intel computer ran a very good CPU– a 486 DX (at 133MHz [that's .1GHz]). It had a million transistor on it, and was considered... Read Full Story
As expected, Intel just announced its Clarksfield laptop chips, bringing Core i7 to the laptop form factor. There'll be three chips, two regular quad-cores and a Core i7 Extreme that can run as fast as 3.2GHz in Turbo mode, which selectively shuts off cores and uses the extra power to speed up the the remaining cores while preserving battery life. The parts were demoed working in shipping-ready form on stage, but pricing and availability weren't mentioned -- we'll let you know what we can... Read Full Story
As expected, Intel just announced its Clarksfield laptop chips, bringing Core i7 to the laptop form factor. There'll be three chips, two regular quad-cores and a Core i7 Extreme that can run as fast as 3.2GHz in Turbo mode, which selectively shuts off cores and uses the extra power to speed up the the remaining cores while preserving battery life. The parts were demoed working in shipping-ready form on stage, but pricing and availability weren't mentioned -- we'll let you know what we can... Read Full Story
Looking back, quad-core processors have had quite the run already. Intel’s first quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was released almost three years ago, with the much more popular Q6600 following up months later at a rather steep $850. As you may recall it was quite the luxury then to have one of these at your disposal.
Today we find ourselves with very different and diversified offerings from both companies, that are not only cheaper but also significantly faster. Just take for... Read Full Story
Intel is scheduling to launch its first quad-core CPU for laptops, the Core 2 Extreme QX9300, in the 3rd quarter this year with pricing set at a novel high of US$1,038 in thousand-unit tray quantities, as per sources at motherboard makers. With the market insisting for top-level laptops still beneath the average, Intel expects the quad-core notebook CPUs will not turn out to be standard in the performance/majority notebook market until the 2nd half of 2009, and therefore it should not crash... Read Full Story
As expected, Intel just announced its Clarksfield laptop chips, bringing Core i7 to the laptop form factor. There’ll be three chips, two regular quad-cores and a Core i7 Extreme that can run as fast as 3.2GHz in Turbo mode, which selectively shuts off cores and uses the extra power to speed up the the remaining cores while preserving battery life.
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Asus also entered the quad-core laptop arena with their new 17-inch gaming notebook G71V. You can configure that notebook with up to 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme processor, 4GB RAM, GeForce 9700M GT 512MB graphics card and up to 1TB of storage via dual 500GB hard drive setup. The G71V comes with Asus’ LevelUp system that can be use to overclock the CPU. The 17-inch screen support full HD 1920 x 1200 resolution and has 8ms response time. There is a small display above the function keys that can... Read Full Story
Intel demoed a quad-core Clarksfield laptop today at Computex 2009.The machine was an Asus engineering sample, featuring an undisclosed Nvidia mobile GPU and we had chance to have a quick play around with Crysis at 1,920 x 1,080, which all looked pretty impressive. Intel refused to disclose any further details on Clarksfield at this time, so clock frequencies, amount of cache and thermal design power will have to wait for another day. The company’s representatives also refused to nail down a... Read Full Story
"Intel and Orange County Choppers combined their mutual know-how and created this monstrosity of a motorcycle—also known as Satan's ride. This isn't the Satan you know, this is the bad-ass futuristic Satan from 2046. The bike has four dual V-twin motors and multiple Intel quad-core processors. What are they for?" Read More Read Full Story
