Inside the Performance and Multi-Core Chip Labs

We had our own camera on as CBS Evening News video crew visited Intel headquarters in March for a story they were producing about Intel's innovation economy.

This is a collection of video snippets captured inside two Intel chip labs.

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Science & Technology

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• core
• i7
• multi
• intel
• research
• cbs
• evening
• news
• chips
• quad
• innovation

[JavaCrammer]

Wait, wait... Hold up one second. 80 cores. WHY R THIS NAWT AVAILIBUL TO ME?! Fuck the core i7 and xeon, I want this baby! 80 cores?!

[FSFchannel]

o noes, 4 brains

[Kalywonkas]

Exactly, most games and programs don't even utilize multi-threading, they'll only use one core, the most people would need at the moment is dual core, one for running background prgrams and one for your main program, E.G Virus scanner and windows exploreer in the background and crysis running in the foreground. A high clock rate dual core is better than a low clock rate Corei7 for more people.

[Xigmatek]

Soon you'll have 1 Tara flop on a normal CPU!

Awesome!

Just Awesome!

[pamew]

Sounds cool :) you should also see an improvement in stability and max clock speeds, and I suggest you try out the new Windows 7 release candidate. Much better memory management and I saw an improvement of about 25% in framerates over vista :) Hope all your stuff turns up, I've been waiting a month for my second gs250 :\

[AmH032uTuBe]

My GPU is great,

it's a Sapphire HD 2600XT (512MB GDDR3), flipping fast, 800MHz clock as standard, and 700MHz memory clock as standard.

but I do have 1.5 GB of RAM, but the 512MB stick is only 266MHz which also has to bring down the 1GB stick to 266MHz too, so I heard from experts is RAM, so I'm ordering 2x 2GB 667MHz Crucial RAM, with heatspreaders and LED's :D

[pamew]

Actually, even speaking as an AMD user myself, your pretty much wrong there, although yes, AMD DID invent the first "true" duel core, I have to admit intels new lineup is impressive, albeit nearly 3 or 4 times as costly for equivalent chips in some cases.

[pamew]

Celeron D's are GREAT at overclocking, and yeah, you can get insane clock speeds. Funny enough once the clock speed rises to about 4ghz a lot of programs will misidentify the chip as a Pentium 4. Great processors, btw what vid card do you have? I'd be willing to bet that that is what's to blaim for low frame rates. a 3.33ghz chip should mash its way through COD: world at war.

[AmH032uTuBe]

yeh I have a Celeron D (Celeron D's are just as good as P4's just less features) it's a 356 model 3.33Ghz.

I can get it up to 3.75Ghz, no fan upgrades, but I saw online someone got it up to 4.8Ghz on a 200FSB mobo.

mine is only a 166FSB mobo.

but I play Dawn Of War, INCLUDING the new Dawn Of War II.

I also play Call Of Duty on it, it does fine, like 30-35FPS...

at very worst like 15FPS.

[pamew]

Precisely! Plus all multicore processors are 64 bit chips, and thus far 64 bit software releases have been minimal, and finding drivers for 64 windows is a freaking nightmare.

Don't get me wrong, I like my athlon, it's a good chip, but for the moment it seems to be about ram, ram, and video buffer memory all the way for the latest games/software.