A Glance into the Future: Six-Core AMD Istanbul in a Desktop Platform

[danrok]

See the front page:
http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/c...-platform.html

Comments?

[cloasters]

But... Istanbul? That sounds mighty strange and foreign to our ears here in the holler. Looks like we'll have 12 cores before too long--but do we need them?

[chrisbard]

Istambul not far from here but the point is that you can have 16 core if its a math thing you need the pc for. Otherwise its a waste unless you get real fast hdrives/memory and increased bandwidth allaround.
Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/3.1.10423/1724; en; U; ssr)

[cloasters]

Does this mean that you live in a strange and foreign land? I thought you hailed from New Jersey, that's far east from here. Signed, confused about maps. And what happened to Constantinople, it's missing!
A local politician has the last name of Constantine, bet his family had to reach pretty far for that one!

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by chrisbard

Istambul not far from here but the point is that you can have 16 core if its a math thing you need the pc for. Otherwise its a waste unless you get real fast hdrives/memory and increased bandwidth allaround.
Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/3.1.10423/1724; en; U; ssr)

Unless you're running Windows 7.........sorry, couldn't resist.

[cw823]

Originally Posted by chrisbard

Istambul not far from here but the point is that you can have 16 core if its a math thing you need the pc for. Otherwise its a waste unless you get real fast hdrives/memory and increased bandwidth allaround.
Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/3.1.10423/1724; en; U; ssr)

Define "need"

[chrisbard]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

Unless you're running Windows 7.........sorry, couldn't resist.

Now I will let this one go with no punishment. Next mistake and you gotta do the upload bar in 24 hours you hear me bwoy?

[chrisbard]

Originally Posted by cw823

Define "need"

Sorry perhaps my bad english caused this, say you need to do fast computation or F@H or video encoding that requires all those powerhorses, this is what I ment.

[cw823]

Originally Posted by chrisbard

Sorry perhaps my bad english caused this, say you need to do fast computation or F@H or video encoding that requires all those powerhorses, this is what I ment.

Not your English, just saying I'm sure we could all come up with reason that we "need" a 6-12 core system, but in reality it's more of a "want".

[jacksonwalters]

Tilera's making a 100 core processor.

Interesting to compare to the neocortical columns of the brain. Turns out the brain uses millions of processors in parallel.

[dsio]

My processor is bigger than your processor.

[cw823]

Originally Posted by dsio

My processor is bigger than your processor.

My processor has wider lanes.

[Daniel ~]

I want a processor that needs a processor to count it's cores... or I won't play with infinity anymore!! ":O}

[candle_86]

Originally Posted by chrisbard

Istambul not far from here but the point is that you can have 16 core if its a math thing you need the pc for. Otherwise its a waste unless you get real fast hdrives/memory and increased bandwidth allaround.
Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/3.1.10423/1724; en; U; ssr)

Im looking forward to it myself, this P4 is killing me compared to my quad specificly for what I spend a great deal of free time doing, which is work with 3ds Max 9, building models, the more cores the happier I am honestly. GAmers dont need it, and If i wasnt doing 3ds max I would have gone dual core to save money, but this 6 core excites me alot, and what im doing isnt math