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Apple does something they should have done 10 years ago
Mnementh:
Well fuck me in the goats ass
--- Quote ---Later this year Intel will be introducing pin compatible upgrades to its Core 2 and Xeon lines, except instead of two cores these processors will feature four. Codenamed Kenstfield (Core 2) and Clovertown (Xeon), Intel's new quad-core processors will dramatically increase the amount of processing power you can have in a single system. Given that the Mac Pro features two LGA-771 sockets, you could theoretically drop two Clovertown processors in there and you'd have an 8-core Mac Pro.
Without a doubt Apple will release a quad-core version of the Mac Pro, either by the end of this year or early next year, but are users who buy the Mac Pro today missing out? While we're still a couple of months away from being able to test a retail Clovertown CPU in the Mac Pro, we wanted to see if the current engineering samples of the chip would work.
We grabbed a pair of 2.4GHz Clovertown samples and tossed them in the system, and to our pleasure, they worked just fine. Our samples used a 1066MHz FSB, although we're expecting the final chip to use a 1333MHz FSB, but the most important part of the test is that all 8 cores were detected and functional.
We ran a handful of stability tests on the Mac Pro equipped with two Clovertowns and didn't encounter any crashes with the processors, so it would seem that Clovertown will work in the Mac Pro's motherboard. We can't say with 100% certainty that you will be able to upgrade to Clovertown when it comes out, but so far the results are looking good.
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I'm hells of happy about this, as I plan on getting a MacPro soon.
Valrus:
I thought this was going to be about gapless playback in iTunes. :P
Melodic:
8 cores? Great! Now I can afford to run 350 applications without strain on my computer!
Isn't it a bit much? Developers have barely gotten around to optimizing programs for dual-core and increased-cache systems, let alone quad-cores. At least wait for other computer technology to catch up, to the point that 4, or even 8, CPU cores will actually be practical.
Mnementh:
Isn't it a bit much, yes.
But damn if it doesn't make my nerd penis bigger.
Ocarina654:
--- Quote from: Mnementh ---Isn't it a bit much, yes.
But damn if it doesn't make my nerd penis bigger.
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And thats the whole point of everything, is it not?
But yeah, exciting, but I really don't see how Apple could have done this 10 years ago...
Still though, the best and the fastest is the way to be when possible.
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