Thread: Westmere 12-core be on LGA 1366?

ATM I am thinking for purchasing either a Phenom II 955/Core i5 750 based system. However, I generally don’t promote for at least 4 years or so. If the i9 12 core systems are 1366, I'll get an i7 920 based system and 3-4 years down the line dunk a 12 core into it in place of buying a completely new system.

The Westmere 12-Core will be on the LGA 1366 socket.

However if you don't plan on improvement for 4 years, I would buy the i5 750 now and acquire a new system in four years... IMO there will be novel technology with MOBO's by that time which will merit a new MOBO versus a BIOS modernize to run the 12-core CPU.

Are you a "power" customer as such or just common gaming/home stuff?

The only new skill that might become "wanted" I'm aware of at present is 6GB/s SATA.... and only then if you employ SSDs for high bandwidth applications (akin to Finite Element simulations).

I haven't listened to any talk of PCI-E being replaced... There is a novel USB specification in the pipeline, but that is perhaps a year or 2 away yet.

I'd recommend purchasing a good large case (as large as you can acquire), then obtain a strong motherboard; place a 920 in and happy days... In 4 years, a 12 core CPU should be enough... software is jump to become more multi-threaded by then... (If it doesn't, then the 24x or 36x core machines that will perhaps exist in the high end by then are almost useless!).

Then it's a squander of my in my estimation since most games are not CPU limited and yet those that are will not like advantage from a 12-core CPU. If you were doing video encoding (x.264 codec for example), then yes, I can observe the desire to obtain a 12-core CPU.

Asus and Gigabyte are already promoting USB 3.0 motherboards and the first I/O devices are just starting to appear.

I expect a lot of new USB 3.0 hard drives and fields to start showing over the next some months.

Would you employ a 3GHz P4 today?

By the time I purchase a 12 core (which will be somewhere around 2012-2014), games will run as a minimum 4 threads, with most running 8 threads. Quite easy to see why I believe 24 logical cores would approach in handy. Can you envisage running Crysis on a single core? It is a extremely GPU dependent title after all...

Are you so certain its 12 core?

Are you certain its not 6 substantial cores and 6 practical cores from Hyperthreading?

Yep no PCI-E substitute yet but have heard something of PCI-E 3.0 appearance in the near future.

If so then it’s probable we will have a novel graphics interface by 2012 because it’s normally every 3 generations they restore them.

Fine... I would speak more akin to the Magny-Cours series.

C2Q was a pretty poor implementation of dual die CPUs from a perspective of memory architecture.

He change from 1 to 2 cores is better than from 2 to 6 for usual consumers. Will game adept and do better on a 12 core in 4 years, probably. Will it be helpful to spend 1k or more for 1 proc so you have 12 cores as the first person, or 500 for the second big group?

I gamble if you buy one for 150-350 and use the extra on other more significant parts, you would gain more advantage.

And you can secure a lot of money by going am2+ path and improvement after the 12 core is released.

And also don't forget, Intel is infamous for replacing chipsets on the same socket, making the 12 core maybe not able to run on these chipsets. Which would mean you spend more money now and have to use more in 4 years?