Quad Core Processors

Hi just commenting on yesterdays announcement by Intel on its release of Quad Core Processors to take over dual core. I was wondering if anyone has any information on the release of this processor on a laptop and also its power drain in relation to battery power on a laptop. Or any information at all would be appreciated....

 

I doubt we'll see quad core in laptops for a LONG time. It's more than likely going to be a server thing for a while.
I'm not sure that XP is coded to take advantage of quad core, only dual core/dual processor.
We'll have to wait and where quad core will lead us.

 

Wrong forum to post in...it should be in the Hardware section.

I don't think you actually NEED quad core. It'll obviously be expensive, power draining and stuff. Dual core can handle almost everything now already.

 

Yeah, I mean what can you possibly need quad-core for.

 

It's all speculation at this point.

Pentium has released this brief to make people think "Ooh, QUAD core? But we've only just gotten dual core!"

Please remember that when dual core came out, everybody said "What's the point of that? Just get a faster processor! Dual Core will never catch on." Well, it has, and it's not ridiculously expensive either. If Intel are going to make Quad core processors any time soon, I can assure you people will buy them, and they won't be obscenely expensive when they get into the mainstream. Within the next 10 years we're going to see a minimum of 100GHz processors becoming available, as 500GHz processors have already been tested.

As for the operating system being coded to work with Quad core - of course it isn't. The idiots at Microsoft haven't the faintest idea how a quad core processor would work, and it's not worth their time and effort at this stage to find out. But they will, and I daresay they'll re-release Windows XP with Quad core support, or do the same with Vista, when that does come about.

-Axtract

 

Intel Core 2 Xtreme QX7600 has been tested and shows very promising performance for a quad-core. Essentially, its two Core 2 Duo's in 1 CPU setup.




Read here:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2049896,00.asp

If you read it, then you should notice that the motherboard and chipset support only on new ASUS P965 will support Kentsfield, as will the P5W DH Deluxe, a 975X-based board. Not even the Intel D975XBX does, yikes.

Definitely going to be a while for it hits the mobile market.

 

Thats why intel is releasing their D975XBX2.

 

People even have no idea on how to use their spare core most of time. Quad core only drain the battery in most cases.

 

We're not likely to see a quad core in a laptop anytime son. The TDP on the desktop version is 125 watts. I don't know how they could get a mobile unit to a low enough TDP to acutally be put in a notebook.

 

XP can handle up to 16 cores, as far as I know.

Mostly though, there isn't much to take advantage of. You very rarely have four threads competing for CPU time.

 

Not until at least sometime past 2008, if ever, really.

Intel's Centrino's platform after Santa Rose will be Montevina, scheduled for 2008. That will use the code-named Penryn Core 2 Duo, which is the 45nm version of the current Core 2 processors.

So, from the information that's out on that, it's not likely to see a Quad Core in a notebook until after that platform.

Frankly, I doubt we will be seeing a Quad Core notebook for a long time. Anything that required such power would be handled on a desktop/workstation.

 

Well maybe until we have Windows Viva la Revolution, or maybe OS Puma, then quad is needed. Or else it would be quite useless for normal ppl like us.

 

Confirmed:

 

Christ that's alot of processors^^^

 

Oh my. It must cost more to power that computer than it costs to power my whole house.