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Former Member
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I expect that Intel will stick with their traditional pricing tiers - i.e. the SBs of today are the "mainstream performance" models, while the "desktop extreme" later this year will be $1,000 according to tradition.
It would certainly be nice if dual Xeons saw a price drop, but I wouldn't count on it... Wikipedia lists the whole Sandy Bridge range, both desktop and server (Xeon). The Xeons are listed with sockets 1155 and 2011, looks like you will need an LGA 2011 motherboard for dual Sandy Bridge Xeons. |
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Movieman
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What I " think" we're going to see is single socket boards in socket 2011 with up to 8 cores/16 threads, dual socket 2011 systems with up to 20 total cores/40 threads, and quad socket with 4x12 core but the last systems will be so expensive that no one here will build them.
----------------------------------------Don't quote me, just what I think is going to happen based on what I've heard. Then there is also AMD's Bulldozer that remains to be seen how well that will do. That will have a dualie with 2x16cores.  |
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A review of the I5-2500 under Linux: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article...el_corei5_2500k&num=1
closing snip: At approximately $100 more than the i5-2500K there is the Intel Core i7-2600K processor that is clocked at 3.4GHz with a Turbo Boost Frequency of 3.8GHz (versus 3.3GHz / 3.7GHz with the i5-2500K), has 8MB of L3 cache versus 6MB with the i5-2500K, and it also offers Hyper Threading. Unfortunately, however, we do not have access to an Intel Core i7 2600K to know how exactly that performs on Linux, but Windows publications have referred to the Intel Core i7 2600K as being the fastest quad-core CPU today. Overall the Intel Sandy Bridge / Core i5 2500K performance on Linux is splendid and we are certainly confident in this quad-core processor that is delivered at a rather nice value. These new Intel CPUs should have no problems running great with Linux in conjunction with the new H67 / P67 motherboards assuming you are using a modern Linux distribution (i.e. Ubuntu 10.10). The only problem continuing to challenge us is the Intel HD Graphics support with Sandy Bridge, which is something we are continuing to tackle and by the time Ubuntu 11.04 rolls around it will hopefully be a pleasant "out of the box" experience for those running this new hardware. |
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nanoprobe
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What I " think" we're going to see is single socket boards in socket 2011 with up to 8 cores/16 threads, dual socket 2011 systems with up to 20 total cores/40 threads, and quad socket with 4x12 core but the last systems will be so expensive that no one here will build them. Don't quote me, just what I think is going to happen based on what I've heard. Then there is also AMD's Cowdozer* that remains to be seen how well that will do. That will have a dualie with 2x16cores. *edited to PC forum language. Sorry MM. I just couldn't help myself. 
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Powhatan
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... assuming you are using a modern Linux distribution (i.e. Ubuntu 10.10). i.e. or e.g. usage? Ubuntu 10.10 is the modern Linux distribution or is an example of a modern Linux distribution.  http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/egie.html Makes one (or at least me) wonder that to use a Sandy Bridge processor and GNU/Linux you need to use Ubuntu 10.10. If that's the case, I wonder what modifications/binary blobs Ubuntu has that other Linux distributions don't have. |
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pramo
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What I " think" we're going to see is single socket boards in socket 2011 with up to 8 cores/16 threads, dual socket 2011 systems with up to 20 total cores/40 threads, and quad socket with 4x12 core but the last systems will be so expensive that no one here will build them. Don't quote me, just what I think is going to happen based on what I've heard. Then there is also AMD's Cowdozer* that remains to be seen how well that will do. That will have a dualie with 2x16cores. *edited to PC forum language. Sorry MM. I just couldn't help myself. Oh My....   |
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pramo
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What I " think" we're going to see is single socket boards in socket 2011 with up to 8 cores/16 threads, dual socket 2011 systems with up to 20 total cores/40 threads, and quad socket with 4x12 core but the last systems will be so expensive that no one here will build them. Don't quote me, just what I think is going to happen based on what I've heard. Then there is also AMD's Cowdozer* that remains to be seen how well that will do. That will have a dualie with 2x16cores. *edited to PC forum language. Sorry MM. I just couldn't help myself. Oh My.... |
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Not sure why intel has such a low cost on SB than the previous version. It's a mainstream CPU, not a next generation top end CPU, they come later this time.My guess is that the top end Bulldozer workstations will reference around 3.3GHz, @3.8GHz with Turbo on, and entry level cores might be 2.4GHz+Turbo. The quad channel RAM (servers and high end workstations only) should be useful, well at least for one project. I don't expect these to outperform their Intel competition in terms of computational performance, but there arrival should keep the competition lively. I noticed about half of AMD's existing technology manufacture runs are due to stop between June and Dec this year, some even brought forward, so I expect to see a variety of mainstream Bulldozer models by autumn. This time the cores will appear as two cores each, so an 8core Bulldozer will appear as a 16core CPU to the operating system. So on a dual socket system you could be crunching 32 tasks at once. I think 4P servers are expected in Q4. On some CPUs I think we might start to see very noticible performance differences between projects. With different cache and RAM support accross the ranges Perhaps most tasks will be more suited to SB and some might run better on some Bulldozer systems but not others. Task allocation/selection could become more important. |
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Movieman
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What I " think" we're going to see is single socket boards in socket 2011 with up to 8 cores/16 threads, dual socket 2011 systems with up to 20 total cores/40 threads, and quad socket with 4x12 core but the last systems will be so expensive that no one here will build them. Don't quote me, just what I think is going to happen based on what I've heard. Then there is also AMD's Cowdozer* that remains to be seen how well that will do. That will have a dualie with 2x16cores. *edited to PC forum language. Sorry MM. I just couldn't help myself. Someone slap this guy!  |
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Powhatan
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"SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 31, 2011 - As part of ongoing quality assurance, Intel Corporation has discovered a design issue in a recently released support chip, the Intel® 6 Series, code-named Cougar Point, and has implemented a silicon fix. In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives. The chipset is utilized in PCs with Intel's latest Second Generation Intel Core processors, code-named Sandy Bridge. Intel has stopped shipment of the affected support chip from its factories. Intel has corrected the design issue, and has begun manufacturing a new version of the support chip which will resolve the issue. The Sandy Bridge microprocessor is unaffected and no other products are affected by this issue. ..."
----------------------------------------http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_new...ror-implementing-solution Edit: From AnandTech. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-disc...ies-chipset-begins-recall [Edit 1 times, last edit by Powhatan at Jan 31, 2011 6:10:41 PM] |
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