Intel Haswell Comes with 14 Cores and 35 MB L3 Cache - Polidicks

Intel is getting into kitchen appliances now? How unusual.

The performance boost from a Pentium 4 must be terrific.

[QUOTE=Fenderson;36551266]You have to get a new motherboard LOLS![/QUOTE] Yeah it's such a pain because we've had the same processor pinout for the last 20 years.

I was very close to getting a 3930, but i'm very happy I didn't.

My core 2 extreme is still holding its own but it looks like I might finally be convinced to make an upgrade.

I think I'll stick with Ivy Bridge. This would be too expensive, and I doubt I'll notice much of a difference, personally.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;36551179]We've had 1,3,6 and 12 cores for a long time - who said "to the power of 2" ever had relevance when talking number of cores?[/QUOTE] One is a power of two. It's just 2 to the zero power.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;36551179]We've had 1,3,6 and 12 cores for a long time - who said "to the power of 2" ever had relevance when talking number of cores?[/QUOTE] It makes more sense from an addressing standpoint. As then every combination of cores would just be a string of 1's of different lengths. But it's not like odd numbered and such core counts is actually a problem for that anyway.

[QUOTE=MIPS;36551614]The performance boost from a Pentium 4 must be terrific.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of a classmate who decided to upgrade his prehistoric rig from a Pentium 4 (no, really, I'm not kidding) to what I think was Sandy Bridge. I swear to god, he almost crapped himself.

I made the mistake of getting an Intel 8xx series. They are pretty sub par.

Too bad intel releases a new socket type with every generation of processor.

Well I just hope they don't pull a bulldozer and still keep per core performance at least as high as in ivy bridge with all these cores.

[QUOTE=Fenderson;36552229]Too bad intel releases a new socket type with every generation of processor.[/QUOTE] They do that for a reason you know. The Pentium 4s had around 480 pins (don't remember exactly) Newer Cores have 1155-1300 and up because all those extra cores, integrated graphics, and memory controller NEED that extra bandwidth to function.

Still on Wolfdale here. God damn that 3 GHz RAM must be impressive. Still won't run Arma 2 properly, though.

My Sandy bridge is still lightning fast, I see no reason to upgrade at the time being, but that could change when Haswell is released. I think upgrading my GPU and getting more SSD's would provide a higher benefit since my bottleneck is still in my hard drives.

[QUOTE=JustExtreme;36551046]i7 920 master race :P Maybe it will be time to upgrade when these come out[/QUOTE] Isn't the LGA 1366 socket not used by the Haswell?

But can it run Crysis?

And here I am with my Phenom 955 [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-saddowns.gif[/IMG]

It will be powerful, and expensive [i]haswell[/i].

Wow, 14 cores? That's 13 more than I have. :(

Only ten more than mine. But what's ten cores more? oh wait... It's ten cores more.......

[QUOTE=Lizzrd;36550601]That's what they said about dual cores and 512MB ram too and look where we are now.[/QUOTE] I remember when they said a 486SX with 4 MB of RAM was enough. Then Windows 95 came out. [QUOTE=Fenderson;36552229]Too bad intel releases a new socket type with every generation of processor.[/QUOTE] Even if they muxed every address/data pin and made everything tristate on a socket 478, I think they'd barely have enough to work with to run two cores, let alone 14. Even two cores would be severely bottlenecked.

My Celeron D 330 is still lighting fast! :smith:

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;36551778]Reminds me of a classmate who decided to upgrade his prehistoric rig from a Pentium 4 (no, really, I'm not kidding) to what I think was Sandy Bridge. I swear to god, he almost crapped himself.[/QUOTE] I used to have a pentium 4

[QUOTE=ichiman94;36554009]My Celeron D 330 is still lighting fast! :smith:[/QUOTE] My Pentium 4 is doing just as good. ... *sob*

[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;36552974]And here I am with my Phenom 955 [IMG]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-saddowns.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE] Get on my level, Phenom 2 945.

[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;36551749]One is a power of two. It's just 2 to the zero power.[/QUOTE] Point taken, but it's not all that relevant to the actual argument. The point is that there doesn't seem to be a problem with CPU using an amount of cores not being a power of two.

I wonder how much stuff you'd have to run to freeze it.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;36554806]probably the same experience i had i had an athlon xp 9600 (RADEON 9600, not geforce), ran tf2 at 800x600 on lowest settings + high fps config at 8FPS, then on my new pc i had a phenom II x3 720 and a 4870, then i popped up tf2 and saw it on max graphics for the first time 200+FPS, at 1920x1080 with 8xAA i laughed like i was high[/QUOTE] Man, my first cpu was the Phenom II X3 720. I clocked that thing like a bitch on stock cooler. TF2 on that was fuckin awesome. Still rockin the intel 950 with a 4870.

[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;36554806]probably the same experience i had i had an athlon xp 9600 (RADEON 9600, not geforce), ran tf2 at 800x600 on lowest settings + high fps config at 8FPS, then on my new pc i had a phenom II x3 720 and a 4870, then i popped up tf2 and saw it on max graphics for the first time 200+FPS, at 1920x1080 with 8xAA i laughed like i was high[/QUOTE] I know what you mean. For a few years, I was just using my laptop where it froze every few minutes or so. We also had an old computer that was only able to run Killing Floor on the very lowest of settings (same with Garry's Mod, but it didn't like it when I spawned too many barrels). When I finally experienced playing Episode 2 with my family's current computer, I swear I started drooling.