AMD Demos Upcoming Six-core “Istanbul” Server Processor

Oh no!! And I just bought a processor with four cores! Its this and my razor.. everytime I go away and then come back to take another look, my PC and my razor are out of date... either I have to few blades or too few processors!!
 
Natas said:
Oh no!! And I just bought a processor with four cores! Its this and my razor.. everytime I go away and then come back to take another look, my PC and my razor are out of date... either I have to few blades or too few processors!!
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Four cores was so last year :p


I'm waiting to upgrade since Desember... but I'm holding out for a little while (then I buy
i7 or "istanbul", whoever is cheapest!
 
Natas said:
Oh no!! And I just bought a processor with four cores! Its this and my razor.. everytime I go away and then come back to take another look, my PC and my razor are out of date... either I have to few blades or too few processors!!
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:D:D:D

This will be advantageous only if you run virtual machines, or software written specifically for multicore CPU's.
 
The_Librarian said:
:D:D:D

This will be advantageous only if you run virtual machines, or software written specifically for multicore CPU's.
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or you just want to run a lot of apps or encoding over a few cores :D I got 30fps in 2nd pass with x264 set to use 7 threads on 2xquad core (intel core 2 duo). Wonder what this one will do...
 
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Natas said:
Oh no!! And I just bought a processor with four cores! Its this and my razor.. everytime I go away and then come back to take another look, my PC and my razor are out of date... either I have to few blades or too few processors!!
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It could be worse... you could be stuck with an obsolete iPhone or iPod which you purchased last week... lol... My one mate has every single iPod released just so he can be sure he has the latest one... it's madness...
 
chubster said:
or you just want to run a lot of apps or encoding over a few cores :D I got 30fps in 2nd pass with x264 set to use 7 threads on 2xquad core (intel core 2 duo). Wonder what this one will do...
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I... hate... you...
 
Operating systems

I do not really know, so I am asking:

The operating system is responsable for dishing out "tasks" to the CPU's - 2, 4 or 6 (like in this case)? Is handling multi CPU's a standard feature of OS's and is there a limit of CPU's a OS can handle?
 
perhaps the Intel system will be known as full-of-bull the sheeple will buy it - remember how Intel were roadmaped to ten mkz and sod multi core - were is Vista without dual core and RAM - and were was the bridge to 64 and beyond 3.5 gig RAM
 
PPJ said:
The operating system is responsable for dishing out "tasks" to the CPU's - 2, 4 or 6 (like in this case)? Is handling multi CPU's a standard feature of OS's and is there a limit of CPU's a OS can handle?
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Not sure about Vista, but XP comes default for 1-2 cores/cpus. Haven't seen it support more... but VMWare goes crazy for multicore... :D :D :D
 
Xp pro and vista premium support up to two cpus. Whether the cpus have 1 or a million cores is inconsequential.
 
PPJ said:
I do not really know, so I am asking:

The operating system is responsible for dishing out "tasks" to the CPU's - 2, 4 or 6 (like in this case)? Is handling multi CPU's a standard feature of OS's and is there a limit of CPU's a OS can handle?
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on Microsoft it depends on the license you pay, but it is mapped to the socket. XP is licensed for 2 sockets and 4GB of Ram. But nothing stops you from having 6 cores per socket. The windows 2000 Enterprise(perhaps called something else) server IIRC had a limit of 16+ sockets and 32GB of Ram. Yes you do get machines with those ridiculous amount of sockets. The problem was memory on a 32bit system. That was also part of the licensing. Now with 64bit the game should change again.

Linux on the other hand you can set the number of cores/cpus up to 32 without a patch (patch to put in more). And if you wanted to use more than 4GB of ram on a 32bit machine you had to patch the kernel. (IIRC it is now also part of the latest kernel). Same with 64bit kernel, well actually for now its set to 36bits addressable memory, amounts to 64GB of Ram. Another factor that can limit is amount of slots and your FSB. In AMD's case where there is no FSB any more, you can string a bunch of boards together using the Hyper-Transport channel, making another monster machine.

36bit addressable memory was decide by the cpu manufactures because they thought nobody can put more than 64GB of memory in a machine today. They will increase it again in the future until it actually reaches 64bit.
 
Thanx clubster!! I will also do some reading on the topic, I do not need to know it but I find it interesting!!

Thanks again!!
 
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