4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? 661
An anonymous reader writes "Intel has updated its processor price list earlier today. Common sense suggests that Intel may not care that much anymore whether its customers know what they are actually buying. One new six-core processor slides in between six-core and quad-core processors – and its sequence number offers no clues about cores, clock speed, and manufacturing process. If we remember the gigahertz race just a decade ago, it is truly stunning to see how the CPU landscape has changed. Today, processors carry sequence numbers that are largely meaningless."
More Cores, More Power (Score:5, Funny)
Would you want to have a 4 inch penis? Don't you think a healthy 6 or 8 inches might be better?
I have a quad core, which I'm confident will soon become the equivalent of a 4 inch penis. I'll have to upgrade my e-peen when it become affordable.
Seriously though, if you like to game on your computer there is no such thing as too much power.
No. (Score:5, Funny)
Bring back the good old days of MIPS! (Score:5, Funny)
Misleading Indicator of Performance Statistic was the worthless number we had back then, and we liked it!
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, my wife also said she wanted 10 inches... I just told her, "Screw you! I am NOT having it shortened!"
Re:Not at all (Score:4, Funny)
And with a quad core system, you can run 3 crappy applications and still have a responsive system! A hex core system will let you run an outrageous 5 crappy applications!
Re:The Onion Said it Best. (Score:3, Funny)
You do know that you're allowed to write "fuck" on the Internet, right? You don't have to censor it like that.
What about 6.40 cores? (Score:2, Funny)
Because 6.40 cores is all anyone will ever need.
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:2, Funny)
The flip side of that joke is: My wife said she wanted me to give her 12 inches and make it hurt, so I put it in 3 times and hit her with a hammer!
Re:They make perfect sense to a ph.d. professor (Score:5, Funny)
Intel says model numbers hurt, help the customer. (Score:4, Funny)
I always loved posting this pic for a forum friend who worked at Intel.
http://images.invisibill.net.nyud.net/intelmodelnumbers.jpg [nyud.net]
Re:It's in their best interests (Score:3, Funny)
This is actually what a lot of America is founded on-- think about it, in an ideal world a company would have a need, and they would go find the company that provides the solution.
We do the opposite, we employ tons of marketers to convince people they need our product. What happens with a recession? Tons of them get laid off. With an extended recession? They don't get hired again.
TIS A GOOD DAY TO
BE AN ENGINEER.
(sorry to those who were expecting a different ending)
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:4, Funny)
Do you want 1 big penis or 6 to 8 tiny ones?
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:5, Funny)
Just add 4 more cores to handle the core overhead.
Re:It's in their best interests (Score:2, Funny)
That's why I bought AMD for my last two builds; I can't understand Intel's naming scheme, so I don't bother to try. Both the red and blue CPU teams are fast enough now unless I'm building for a very specific need, so I just go with the one that requires the least brainpower to know what I'm getting... ...that way I can spend all my time figuring out what the different GPU numbers mean. :)
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:5, Funny)
POWERRRRRRRR!
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:5, Funny)
while background processes such as the OS, drivers, pr0n downloads, etc. run on the second core.
More likely, given todays throw away mentality of, "if its infected, just throw it out and buy a new PC", using a 6-core processor means you get 5 "free" worm/virus infestations before you "have to" buy a new computer. Unless you run mac or linux of course.
Re:More Cores, More Power (Score:2, Funny)
Anyone with that attitude is almost guaranteed to not be running Linux.
And almost guaranteed To be running Mac.
At which point, you have however many cores Steve Jobs tells you to want.