I hear AMD is coming out with 12 cores,whos excited? --questions

I'm quite excited,due to that i heard they are proxy the 8 and going towards 12,oh and it's coming out in the first half of 2010...i guess around the time im graduating and going to college for 3d design.

So should i hold out till then ,and upgrade when 12 cores come out,or just get quad core phenom now?



Who wants to be the first guy on the block to get these and over clock them to the moon,then mars and back?

^^^ this

ive got a q6600 and it will more than satisfy me until sandy bridge and bulldozer drop in 2010

12 cores is really only useful with multiple VMs on a server.

well lets see can it play tf2 any faster than my e8600 @ 4.8ghz? then im not excited , will be good when games finally get more optimized but until then oh well

Actually, at the moment, Hyper-V is the only VM that makes use of multiple cores for VM's (I could be wrong since I haven't looked into it for a year). Hyper-V also only allows 4 cores per VM max. Therefore, for a virtualization server, I would recommend no more than an overclocked quad core setup. W3520's are cheaper and can overclock higher. Eventually, if I ever have time, I'll split up my E5520's (currently in a dual socket motherboard), and make two virtualization servers out of them (one for server vm's, and the other for desktop vm's the way I have them now on different hard drive partitions). I'll have to try and see how well they overclock, their stock frequency is at 2.26 GHz vs. W3520's 2.66 GHz.

I've ran a stable windows 2008 with hyper-v on my desktop (i7 920 @ 3.6 GHz and non ECC RAM) and it's fine. I don't see the need for an 8 Core virtualization server, much less 12 Cores (I turned hyperthreading off since I run SQL Server on them, which isn't optimized for it).

???And where did you 'heard' that AMD is releasing a twelve core in the first half of 2010???

But they do have the hardware to play multi-threaded games. The games will eventually be optimized for multiple cores, but will run fine on dual core machines.

This will be great for GTA IV knowing how it nukes the i7 and the consoles.

It can cry all it wants, 4.93Ghz from a $100 chip is sweet.
I'd do it too if my motherboard would let me. It wont let me have more than 1.56V My e8500 is stable at 4.37 on air, could do more but needs voltage

Anywho 12 core chip is probably for server use, it'd be silly in a desktop PC as most games only use 2-4. It would be very power hungry and very hot. BUT it would be fantastic for video editing etc

Having 12 cores on a single die (when the current 4 cores are hot enough) is not going to overclock well unless they've had some major advances (if they have, then that's awesome).

So yeah I'm not jumping up and down about it, still cool though. I'm hanging out for some AMD compeition ass whooping material. I just want newer architectures, not more cores.

I think he was referring to the 5.41 GHz E8500 with 1.87 V on dry ice. It's crying.

Ahh gotya, my bad.

Until we have quad-cores that are on the same price of the low dual-cores, it'd be quite a bit of time before we see a boatload of games that fully utilize them. It is possible to make highly threaded, efficient games it is only a question of where the most money could be made.

Nothing is difficult, so long as a boatload of money is your primary motivation.