One of the advantages of platform AMD quad FX its the correct support and the possibility to install into an existing systems four core processor from the generation K8L, which will be released in the third quarter of the present year. Thus, the number of core in one system can be set to eight without special expenditures and efforts. The main thing is that in the following half-year would be located programs capable to effectively use all eight cores in desktop system class ?.
Intel company could not remain indifferent to the attempts AMD to infect public by tendency toward the growth of processor cores number in gaming systems, but therefore it presented on the exhibition CES 2007 its answer to Quad FX. . As the basis of demonstration system lay the motherboard on base chipset intel series 5000, that supports the processors xeon with 1333 MHz system bus. It is completely natural that as the processors came out two four core representatives of family xeon 5300. Four gigas-byte operational memory (FB-DIMM) and one video card series geForce 8800, which can be used in games.
Representatives Intel stated that such system is not cheap. Moreover, all necessary hardware for its creation can be purchased already today. the default frequency (3.0 GHz) of the used processors xeon series 5300 .
In the processor test of 3DMark06 this system collects 6089 points. For example, system on the base of two processors athlon 64 FX-74 (3.0 GHz) in this test collects only 3764 points.
Furthermore, one four core processor xeon has a level TDP not more than 80 W, whereas for the processors athlon 64 FX-7x level TDP is 125 W. However, together with buffered memory and chipset the pair of processors xeon can consume sufficiently much electric power.
We also should not forget that processors xeon use divided system bus, which loads sufficiently strongly the hole system and in some stage begins to hold the increase of performance in proportion to the increase in core number. The processors athlon 64 FX-7x use more effective system bus HyperTransport.
Here the screen shot of the tasks manger, in whom are visible all eight cores. Intel will not release gaming work stations with a similar configuration , the system examined was assembled for the demonstration needs. However, Those desiring can completely gather a system with analogous configuration.
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