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Originally Posted by ChemicalWarrior
We'll be thinking more along the lines of quad core then.
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yes, exactly.
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The useful of it is almost completely server related, IMO. It allows for co-processors to have direct access to the hypertransport bus, which is nice. From my understanding it could allow much cheaper specilization computers to be built using standard components.
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I doubt it, that's what the opteron is for.
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Oh, and 4 cores for a system, or 8 cores when multithreaded games are really getting to a useful point.
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Yea, that's what I said.
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I'm more interested in Intel's Conroe, and the rumors of AMD buying out ATi (doubtful, but it sure did boost ATi's stock with just rumors).
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Yes, I don't doubt conroe will be a huge success.