News - Intel's 32nm Core i9 pictured? Gulftown in the flesh

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Westmere part makes an appearance in a dual-socket board that could indicate a Skulltrail refresh. Anybody fancy 24 cores?

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My ESX box would love that setup :P

Yay! I'm glad I got a i7... just think, in a few years I could upgrade to one of these, assuming all I require is a simple BIOS update to my UD5. :)

Can't wait to upgrade now, DX11 will help games use 12 threads too in the future :D

Looks like Task Manager needs a redesign! 12 threads and 6 cores... that's absolutely insane! Makes my quad core look quite mild.

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Originally Posted by Timmy!!!

Looks like Task Manager needs a redesign! 12 threads and 6 cores... that's absolutely insane! Makes my quad core look quite mild.

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LOL indeed. :O_o1:
Looks like i will be plummeting the extra cash for LGA1366 rather than 1156 or whatever the i5 is gunna be :)

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

LOL indeed. :O_o1:
Looks like i will be plummeting the extra cash for LGA1366 rather than 1156 or whatever the i5 is gunna be :)

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Gonna get an i7 now and an i9 later or just wait for the i9?

i9 = 18 cores.
Dual processors = 18 x 2 = 36 cores.

36 x 2.4 = 86.4 GHz :surprised::rockon2:

Btw, how did u guys get 24 cores if theres supposed to be 36 ?

Either the artical is not about i9 or i9 only has 6 cores or i9 comes in 6, 8 and x core variants.

I guess we will find out in time which is correct.

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Originally Posted by Timmy!!!

Looks like Task Manager needs a redesign! 12 threads and 6 cores... that's absolutely insane! Makes my quad core look quite mild.

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There's various videos of Intel showing off their 192 threaded system on a Nehalem-EX combined server rack. They use task manager just to show all how many threads :)

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Originally Posted by nightkhaos

Gonna get an i7 now and an i9 later or just wait for the i9?

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Well my upgrade will be after chrimbo (as always) so will see how much i have and whats available.

There's my CPU upgrade for next year, nom nom. And it's LGA1366, even better :P

The first one dunnington was 6 c 12 t, but I think later ones will expand into more cores to replace them.

If this needs a new mobo, someone needs a slappin'

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Originally Posted by directhex

If this needs a new mobo, someone needs a slappin'

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Well based upon what I've read no one will be getting a slappin', expect me for needlessly upgrading my CPU in Q2/3 next year. ;)

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Originally Posted by directhex

If this needs a new mobo, someone needs a slappin'

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Should be okay this round, but it wouldn't be unlike Intel to change it later even if they keep the same socket.