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May 14th, 2010, 01:30 AM | #1 |
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i7-960... 8 cores???
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My sister just had a new machine built on a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R board with an i7-960 3.2GHz, 8MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB, Quad Core processor. Sure enough though, in both device manager and task manager.... there are 8 cores listed. What the? Can someone explain? |
May 14th, 2010, 01:58 AM | #2 |
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Hey John, that is HyperThreading.
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May 14th, 2010, 04:39 AM | #3 |
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Really? Wow!
It's good too! Her 4 real and 4 virtual cores out-perform my 8 real cores on my Xeons by miles on the PPBM. I am so jealous... |
May 14th, 2010, 10:11 AM | #4 |
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If you are already jealous, by all means don't overclock that 960! It might make you cry. The i7 is a great CPU.
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May 19th, 2010, 06:15 PM | #5 |
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But wait...she might upgrade to 6 cores plus 6 virtual cores total of 12 processors!!!!!
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May 20th, 2010, 01:25 AM | #6 |
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I guess that's the nature of technology. You buy it when you need it, use it, upgrade when you can afford to. My one consoling thought is thy given that I'm using a Supermicro board with Xeon CPUs I figure it's designed to last for twice as long as a regular board and CPUs. Am I right or just thinking wishfully?
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May 20th, 2010, 02:37 AM | #7 |
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Exactly what I thought - but my Supermicro dual Xeon is thrashed by a simple overclocked 920 i7 running at 4ghz -
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May 21st, 2010, 02:07 PM | #8 |
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The latest incarnation of the Xeons are the same as the i7's and with the new evga dual 1366 motherboard coming out soon, you can overclock them to have dual six cores running at 4.0ghz+ with 24 threads.
*drool* |
May 21st, 2010, 04:11 PM | #9 |
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That's all good and well but they won't fit my 771 motherboard (which, by the way, cost more on its own that half of what my sister's entire i7 system cost to have built).
That's why I suppose I just have to accept that that's the story with technology. You buy it Monday, by Friday you'll wish you'd waited a little longer. And yes, I am drooling... |
May 22nd, 2010, 11:38 AM | #10 |
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That's the only problem. You cant even use the same ram.
Sometimes it's best to stay one step behind technology so you always know where to go afterwards. |
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Evga classified sr-2
You may want to check the evga site there are post with photo's of the SR-2 Board in varoius levels of
build! Havn't gotten mine yet! |
May 23rd, 2010, 04:37 PM | #12 |
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Thats the board I'm on about. You can't buy it in th UK yet
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Case: Antec 1200 Power Supply: BFG 1200 watts Processor: Core i7 930 Mobo: Gigabyte: EX58 UD-5 HD: Four (4) WD Caviar Black 1 TB 64mb cache Lite-On DVD/CD Drive (dual layer Ram: Corsair 12 GB DDR3 PC3-12800 1600Mhz Video: Zotac nVidia GTX 285 Cooling: Noctua NH D14 I easily overclocked it to to 3.85, and it is running stable on Windows 7 Pro with low temps. Overclocking is sort of a "black-art." Part science - Part art. In playing around with the Bios, I easily got to 4.0Ghz. However, as you increase the voltage to the processor, the temps. go up and you could be facing long-term reliability issues. It is somewhat of a balancing act: You want performance + stability + longevity. |
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May 24th, 2010, 12:47 AM | #14 |
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Why are they even still making Xeons if the i7s are out performing them or the same as them? What's the advantage of a Xeon over an i7?
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May 24th, 2010, 03:54 AM | #15 |
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You would have to have a water cooling system but you might be ok if you have lots of fans and something like Corsir H50's.
Xeons are meant for dual cpu configurations. At stock, dual xeons will surpass the i7's but and overclocked i7 will surpass with applications which work apllications which don't take advantage of the extra threads. The new EVGA board offers overclocking, something left out of the standard xeons boards, which means that the xeon will perform the best. i7 chips have one QPI bus which means that they can only run in a single cpu configuration. |
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