AMD Phenom II X6 Hexa-Core

Man how thing's have improved, the most dramatic improvement i have seen is CPU performances.

AMD's most powerfulest line being the AMD Opteron Hexa-core Models.
But also, amd has Confirmed, this was a few months back, that 6-core AMD Phenom II X6 Hex-Core Processors are on their way.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/its_official_amd_confirms_hex...
The biggest surprise to me is the backwards compatibility with AM3, and AM2+ boards.
Meaning the CPU will likely already be supported in current motherboard's that we have.

Though their certainly going to be behind intel once again for the consumer market.
However AMD as always generally rocks the server market with the powerful AMD Opteron Line already having six core and 12 core models.

i'm excited...even though i use a core i7 940 on an X58 motherboard i am assured compatibility with Intel's next Lines such as the Nehalem..Blah did i spell it right?
God. lol.

Is anyone else excited about MORE CORES?
Or just the coming 32NM jump. Intel and AMD will be making.
Personally, i have seen people run 65NM 3Ghz Dual cores on a gaming rig setup and they are extremely happy.

It's crazy how thing's have improved.

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Permalink Reply by Gibson on November 12, 2009 at 12:51pm: Intel will be releasing Six-core models likely before AMD in Q1 2010, core i9's.
Core i9 Extreme Etc........thing that will seperate this from AMD, is that Intel will go 32NM before AMD Does. I honestly don't care about the NM, Anything 65NM And lower is ok to me, 45NM is better on power consumption heat,etc, battery power.

And seeing as AMD is the cheaper brand they will succeed more.
Core i9 Extreme for 1000$??? What?
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition, is quiet comparible to the Core i7 Extreme

Regardless we don't even need 6-core's yet.
Dual-core Gaming rig's will get the same gaming performance they do, i kno their are some software related stuff that make require this to be necessary..but it really isn't yet.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris Daniels on November 13, 2009 at 7:29pm: agree; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mad Max on November 13, 2009 at 8:46pm: The i9's will be server/workstation CPU's, so they'll end up in things like the Mac Pro, XServe, Dell Precision Workstations and their Blade & PowerEdge servers. They're going to be classed as "Extreme Desktop" CPU's apparently, which is the new way Intel are making the point that they can also be used for high end desktops too to try and trick the silly gaming rig whores into buying them for the silly prices they charge lol. Read my previous comment in this thread if you want more info on why spending that sort of money for gaming with such CPU's is silly.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gibson on November 12, 2009 at 3:39pm: Regardless.....i have, a laptop witch is being repaired.......stuck with only a netbook as my portable device.
has a 2.2Ghz AMD Turion, 65NM even not even 45NM, but that only explains the laptop being a bit hot and requiring my cooling pad, regardless not affecting the speed of the Dual core itself, i can pretty much match the FPS in games that a quad core that is the same speed would do. Not positive weather or not the NM technology from 65 to 45 would make a difference, regardless the laptop uses a 8600M Chipset with dedicated video ram,
so say I was faced an AMD Phenom 9500 Series Quad, one of AMD's first with were 65NM Technology, and had an 8600GS OR GT 256MB OF ram, cus thats what my laptop has for dedicated..(better then nothing/most of those media accelerators don't match against it) And it had 3-4GB's ddr2, cus thats what my laptop has..same graphics, same ram and speed's.. the power supply would being more powerful in the desktop but.....with same hardware except the CPU witch being a quad but with same speed, the performance in gaming would be absolutely no difference. Do you see what i'm getting at, i probly made a few mistakes....i'm a serious tech talker sometimes :O

PS: The quad series might have better threading technology etc....................
Most laptop's only hold 45NM Core 2 duo's 2.1-2.26ghz......amd quiv's pentiums etc.....
have good ram and good graphics they will game very optimally, So the processor manufactures are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY Ahead of the software/gaming development, we only have games just makinng the 2.0GHZ+ Dual core line now.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Wandering I on November 13, 2009 at 9:51pm: you'd actually still be slower due to the slower ram frequencies on laptop ram, but not by much.; ▶ Reply to This