Intel's quad-core chip:

The results of some recent tests show that users will be satisfied with the performance of Intel's new quad-core chips but will not be satisfied with the price of this product.

Testing shows that the performance of quad-core processor chips is extremely powerful and software manufacturers do not need to develop multi-threaded software to fully utilize the power of this chip line. .

But confirming the performance of the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 quad-core chip outperforms the existing chips from both Intel and AMD are just the conclusion based on the general test results. Test results with a number of specialized applications show that quad core chips are no more powerful than dual-core chips.

When running only a single application, the QX6700's performance is no higher than the Core 2 Extreme X6800 dual-core chip or the Core 2 Duo E6700 chip. The reason for this is because the QX6700 uses the same thermal mechanism design as the Core 2 Extreme X6800 chip and Intel decided to reduce the QX6700's operating speed. The X6800 operates at 2.93GHz, while the QX6700 and E6700 run at 2.66GHz.

But when you have to run a lot of applications that require high processing power, the QX6700 demonstrates its high performance. The test showed that the QX6700 can both handle Quake 4 games and encode standard DivX video files at the same time very softly without jerky. This performance is much higher than AMD's Core 2 Extreme X6800 and Athlon FX-62 dual-core chips.

The performance of the QX6700 is most clearly demonstrated in the gaming industry, so Intel has targeted this quad-core chip to the gaming PC market. Many applications are designed to make good use of the performance of dual-core chips, but very few of these software can take full advantage of the quad-core chip. Perhaps only software that requires high processing capabilities such as high-end graphics or game applications.

PC users merely for browsing purposes, processing spreadsheet documents, playing simple games will not need the power of the QX6700 because the performance of handling the above tasks of quad-core chips is also no higher than the lines How many other chips. The QX6700 will only be the desired product of professional multimedia graphic designers.

But the Core 2 Extreme quad-core chip - similar to the previous Pentium Extreme Edition series - will have a price that is not "soft" at all because it has an extremely expensive set of chip designs. This will really be a headache for those who are passionate about the speed of microprocessor chip speed and must upgrade the system every 6 months.

The QX6700 will cost around $ 1,000. The line of QX6700-equipped PCs will begin to appear on the market in mid-November. The world's two leading PC makers Gateway and Dell have also announced plans to launch Intel's new line of quad-core processor chip technologies. Intel's second quad-core chip - Core 2 Quard 6600 - will be available early next year.

The global PC industry has made great strides in increasing the speed of processor chips, creating a PC speed race. But now the speed of the chip is not very valuable. By maintaining a number of factors such as microarchitecture design or caching in chip manufacturing, even if the new chip has a higher speed, performance is not much.

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