Intel says Pentium IV to hit 10ghz
Intel says Moblin to hit 2 second boot times
Intel says Atom to be greatest thing since sliced bread
Intel says Nehalem running at "very healthy" clockspeeds


Less talk, more engineering samples plzokthx

Am i the only one that thinks that the Atom sucks? Sure, it's not very power hungry, but not very power effecient either, i'd rather have something with a battery life of 20 minutes than 9 hours, as long as the things i want done actually gets done in those 20 minutes. But then again im a wee bit impatient. And before you say it, yes, i know "it's not meant to be powerful, it's only meant for surfing the web and light use" and that would be fine, but a price tag of 450 dollars for something like that, is just ridiculous, almost as ridiculous as buying a Mac instead of a PC, if you get my analogy, and if not = It's too expensive for what it is.

I've still trying to see what programs use 4 cores other than Crysis and Sins of a Solar Empire, this is stupid.

yoda: you mean "programs" or "games"? There's a distinct difference.

GTA IV

Both, there are more games but I don't know any programs that support 4 cores.

Just as there a those that wonder why someone would need more than 3 gig of ram. If you don't understand why, that doesn't not mean "this is stupid"; it just means you are posting way out of your league.

(Of course I'm assuming this is still an enthusiast website)

Most high end and popular video and photo editing software do.

I need 6 gigs of ram. I have 4 and it's really been making me mad when my computer lags as it runs out of ram. 3 or less would just suck.

Avid, Final Cut Pro
Most Cad Programs
Animation programs like Maya

GTA4 comes to mind.

Well if you people relize there is more then just games out there.... I know as soon as 6 core cpu are out and you have a quad cpu server you can host alot of virtual servers.... If you take the time there is a program called Hyper-V which comes with Windows 20008 64-bit and another program called vm ware that would love having the 6 cores on 4 cpu's to run a crap load of virtual servers...... MORE TO LIFE THEN GAMES! This is tomshardware not tomsgames.....

So you ran an article based on a story on another website that suggested that the Intel chip was delayed, and then you didn't check the Intel release schedule? That's funny.

also, PCSX, if im not mistaken, uses more than 4 cores. fritz, quite a lot of media encoders, and if your like me in any way, you use a dual core and cry because its not letting you multitask enough

Left 4 Dead actually puts load on all four of my cores when enabling multicore rendering.

Anyways, I'm not anticipating a sexacore configuration since quadcore works for most gamers. I say this being a workstation thing for a year or two before it trickles down to the masses.

Actually, the developers said it only takes advantage of max. 2 cores.

Digidesign ProTools8 needs and uses all the cores it can get.
I would guess all video/photo/audio recording/editing software take full advantage of all the cores.

There are actually people that use their pc's for other things than surfing or word/excel.

But that game's so poor it shouldn't really count as a game. Worst investment since halo 2.

No there isn't. A game is a program too. As is the calculator, internet browser and your favorite media player.

I was wondering about the article as well. Gulftown has always been H1 2010 and it said it was delayed from Q4 2009 which didn't make sense. It may be my next upgrade if more programs become multithreaded. Until then, I'll stick with my overclocked dual core.

Games that I've played that use 4 cores very well UT3, COD5, Warhammer, Crysis, Dawn of war 2.

Many New games are coming out that take advantage of extra cores and as prices keep falling quad cores are becoming more mainstream.

Lets see, Pentium 4 is capable of hitting 10ghz if it went down to 45-32nm but got canned because of thermal/power limitations (unforseen at the time - 130nm erra etc), second Moblin - what OS to define those 2 seconds? DOS? third - Atom - is a big hit for netbooks and starts the ball rolling for small x86 windows based devices etc - about time! and fourth Nahelem - it is healthy and running like it supposed to, whats wrong with it???

Again - DO WE ALL STILL USE SINGLE CORES???? HELL NO - EVERYTHING IS NOW DUAL CORE MINIMUM - SAME ARGUMENTS WITH 4 CORE, 6 CORE NOW AND IN FUTURE REFERENCE 8+ CORE - THINGS USE IT.

Nuffin wrong with a game that uses a quad core - just somethin wrong with the age of your systems - Pentium D's and And Athlon 64's are simply too old for modern gaming along with your Nvidia 7800's etc

So you blame halo 2's very poor visuals on the 8800gtx I had at the time? or the fact that gta 4 is likely to be the worst gave I've tried since halo 2 on the 4870 that I use now?
I know my system's 'old' but I still think a 3,4ghz dualcore with 4gb memory and a single gpu card should be sufficient - and it's not performance that's my problem with the two games mentioned in the first place. It's the game part of it. They're horrible products.

Halo 2 - think i tried it a long time ago and seemed to be less then the first (cant really remember so cant comment there)

was talking about GTA IV - good game

oh and a Pentium D 3.4 is around a Celeron E1200 in performance - who games with a celeron these days?

Latest games = Latest Hardware - how its always been, expect nothing less

I like it!

Where the hell did you get the pentium D 3.4 from ? Do yourself the favor, and check my system specs in my profile before you make wierd asumptions! In the Pentium D era people would've picked an amd rig, so basicly none of those exist anymore except as toasters in fastfood shops.


That being said though - my dad can play supreme commander on his old 2.4 northwood with an agp based geforce 7600 @ 1024 (not forged alliance) so chances are it can play other stuff too.

gta 4 is rubbish as a game though. It's that simple. I've played it for like an hour, and decided to just cut my losses and get rid of it again.

Supreme commander thrashes my system in proper 4 way battles - dunno how you can say a Pentium 4 2.4 can "play" it...

GTA IV is a great game - iv never had an issue with performance or stability - worked a charm, and is in my books a great game like its predecessors.

People out there sadly enough still own and maintain Pentium D's - they arnt a bad chip or anything, just not as efficient. They were also cheap and had that selling point - INTEL and high ghz for those stupid people.

and the only "3,4ghz dualcore" released on the market (stock) was the Pentium D, you said nothing about overclocking.

Ceder Mill (Pentium 4) is the only desktop processor that was able to hit 8 GHz
http://www.ripping.org/database.ph [...] rand=INTEL

well this is toms hardware - it's not linux.org ; so overclocking is the default thing really.

Anyway, it runs just fine on my dad's pc - ofcourse not on a huge map, but it runs fine.

As for gta 4 - I didn't experience any stability issues either - I just experienced a very poor game with virtually no gameplay. Not at all like gta 3 or vice city ; though vice city was poorly programmed.