Intel Can't compete in dual socket gaming

That might be true now, but by the time K8L is out I imagine there will be some chipset out there to support SLI. Hypothetically by this point AMD could keep the lead in that it would have an enthusiast platform with 8 cores available to Intel's 4, but in reality this will be overkill as few apps will take advantage of so many cores, and I certainly cant see gaming using 8 cores for a while yet.

The only way AMD is going to retake the performance lead in any segment now is if it can deliver substantial architectural improvements with Barcelona/Altair

If AMd can keep close with barcelona


i think tehy can beat INTEL with an overall faster platform

I find this funny for a few reasons. We have yet to have games take full advantage of 2 cores, we're moving to 4 cores and you claim that AMD having a Dual Socket Desktop platform (4x4) will place them at the top of the performance segment when it comes to games?

Are you on drugs? Be honest.. if so I'd like to know what you're smoking. Grant you I do believe 4x4+ (K8L) will have it's place, as the premier Video encoding platform, but I highly doubt it will be the king in gaming performance.

If Intel clock their next gen Quad Core CPU's based on the 45nm to around 3.73GHz expect them to wipe the floor performance wise unless AMD can clock their K8L in the 3.4-3.5GHz range.

Here's a question, are all of you the same shill posting under different names?

Well ,
There is no dual socket SLI mainboard for intel CPUs , but AMD has no quad core CPUs either. It is difficult to speculate about K8L's performance , when it is not available yet.

are you threatening me? I don't think this forum is the place for terroistic threats.

i have an 9 month old daughter i am raising ...you want her father dead for what?

Go read the specs for the coming game ALAN WAKE then come back and apologize

are you threatening me? I don't this forum is the place for terroistic threats

i have an 9 month old daughter i am raising ...you want her father dead for what?

Never heard of a "terroistic" threat... what is that exactly?

OMG! can't imagine what it's gonna be like when she hit's these forum in a few years.

I'm sure she already know how EVIL intel is, oh and does she wear green all the time...SOOOO many questions!

that's the worst thread title ever especially with the come back comment you made to Elmo.

Finnaly havent you heard about nVidia wanting to get in bed with Intel, guess that could mean SLI for everybody, dont you think!!???


troll

Yes, More cores will probably be better for gaming, but it will be a while before we see it, and there will definitly not be anything threaded for 8 cores... anytime soon (nothing in 07/08... maybe 09)

First off, how many people will buy a dual socket mobo? Probably the same amount of people on Fortune's 100 richest people list.

Second, why make games so highly threaded when the vast majority of people still run single cores, only being phased to dual cores now... companies aren't dumb

Third, notice exactly what its threading on the CPU... Graphics/Physics/Sound... well, lemme introduce you to my friends DX10 graphics card, Ageia PhysX or another graphics card, and my good ol X-FI card... oh look, there goes 3 threads already. Last one is world data, maybe even AI, but I hear tell of an AI chip in the near future...

Actually, looking at all this, gaming computers will be ridiculous...

Quad-SLI with another 7950GX2 as a physics SLI card with an additional AI card... BEAST

Wondering if you and I read the same article, we certainly have different interpretations of the info.

You are presuming that AMD quad cores will have no peer based on having an IMC and scalability, but what happens when chipsets are released that enable dual/quad FSB for Intel and/or support SLI?

It would be an easy transition for nVidia to make a dual/quad FSB and SLI enabled chipset for Intel, you only have to look at the nVidia Pro 2200 & 2050 chipset for Opterons or even the nVidia 590SLI chipset to see there is, basically, already a model in place...just a little tweaking for nVidia to support dual/quad FSB...it would be one he[[ of a mobo, but just a little tweaking on nVidia's part to make it happen...

In case you didn't catch on, I was counter trolling.

Only fanbois post provocative thread titles like this one.

Personally the problem I see with these setup is HD's, these thing are GOD DAMN SLOOOWWWW.

8 Vms are sweet and as you say endless posibilities, but i see the HD running host OS as a big fat bottleneck!

You'd probably need 8 hd in 0+1 to run your Oses + storage. Gues that with the amount of money you can spend on HD but it will remain the main bottleneck imo

Not at this very moment, but multi core will be HEAVILY used in the future. Hopefully in the near future. They're talking about using indipendent threads to do specialized funcitons that would have been allocated to (say) a physics card.

Crazy weather effects and the like will be laid down in threads that will be gobbled up by mulit core processors... or qued up and waiting for the attention in a single core scenario.

*yawn* *shrug*

I'm was smoking the counter-troll marijuana; I perfectly know that multicore is the wave of the future in gaming, just not now (or, for the next 6 months). Enough said on the topic.

EDIT: Stop bumping this fanboi thread.

As I do at yours.

Any one want a piece of speculation from me? I'll tell you what I speculate. I speculate that this thread will be locked up tighter than a Republican's chastity belt.
My ten cents, cause my two cents is free.
Ninja

Go inject smack into your eyeballs fanboy.

rofl. i didnt even read any replies but that one was good. i too am waiting for this to eb locked, i just wanted some posts

Dear very stupid extremist-troll,

I am so happy to dissapoint you and frustrate you and it is so much fun:
1. AMD 4x4 is just a marketing name for a 2P K8 server with expencive DDR2.
2. K8L does not exist today.
3. When K8L arrives it will be outperformed by Yorkfield by the same amount as K8 is outperformed by Core2 today
4. Today we have only few(you can use only one hand to count if you know how) games that are optimized for dualcore CPUs and so far no games optimized for quadcore CPUs.
5. Graphics cards are the most important hardware parts for games performance.
6. AMD is not a king for anything that comes on 1P/2P desktop, mobile, workstation or server system.
7. Core2 wipes the floor with all AMD CPUs made today in every benchmark know to man kind.
8. The games today are not bottlenecked by the CPUs, but are bottlenecked by the graphics cards.
9. Only few rich idiots will buy 4x4 for gaming, while 99% of the gamers will buy something much more worth for the money.
10. The article is so poorly written, the author knows almost nothing about the BS in his crappy thread and his conclusions are stupid as much as yours.

Please, respond to my post. I really love to argue with stupid trolls like you. It is fun when you are making greater idiot of your self with yours, mine and the help of the rest members of THG.

Cheers!

Owned?

Sigh... you'll get a wopping no improvement with 4-8 cores for gaming... Let see how many problems there are with this post:

1) Cites the Inquirer
2) 8 cores for gaming when games are still pretty much single threaded (maybe if your lucky you can use two cores to an advantage)
3. Assumes that nVidia or Intel will not manage to get their act together by the time 4x4 and K8L actually come out.

As a side note: Intel will have their quad core out before the time 4x4 comes out, so AMD is playing catch-up using an approach that didn't require much engineering (its not like dual sockets are new).

Nah, i just have too much spare time on my hands at the moment, with the cricket season being over and all.