Sandy Bridge-> Ivy Bridge LGA1155

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ilkhan

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As for hex and octo, didn't Intel state once that it determined that anything over quad cores required more than dual channel memory to keep the cores fed? Maybe that does not apply to SB/IB, but it has held true up until now.
Dual DDR3-1600 = triple DDR3-1066.
 

BBMW

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Is there any consumer / or commercial workstation (ie not-server) software that really can make use of more then four cores? I can see needing more cores on a server machine that probably has many server instances serving large numbers of users. But for a computer someone is actually sitting in front of and using, how much utility is there to adding more and more cores?
 

boggsie

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Is there any consumer / or commercial workstation (ie not-server) software that really can make use of more then four cores? I can see needing more cores on a server machine that probably has many server instances serving large numbers of users. But for a computer someone is actually sitting in front of and using, how much utility is there to adding more and more cores?

There is also benefit to having the ability to run multiple applications, performing simultaneous tasks, each with access to it's own processor thread.
1.lame/winamp/wmp/itunes decoding cd's to mp3's
2.dvd movie playback
3.browsing sites with silverlight/flash
4.active ftp download
5.playing <insert logic game (chess)> on master or expert level
6.chat windows
7.anti-virus / anti-spyware
8.decoding massive archives
9.compiling project in visual studio

Best regards,
-boggsie
 

dougri

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Is there any consumer / or commercial workstation (ie not-server) software that really can make use of more then four cores? I can see needing more cores on a server machine that probably has many server instances serving large numbers of users. But for a computer someone is actually sitting in front of and using, how much utility is there to adding more and more cores?

x264 transcoding HD video
photoshop, especially batch processing.
and some of us actually WRITE software in languages that support serious multithreading... always nice to have the option and in some cases is essential (i.e. the more the better)
 
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