Dat 5.1ghz Xeon Rumor

[tp4tissue]

If true.. then it's obvious intel is holding out on us to plant consumer costs..

If they sold general consumers like an 8 or 12 core with a big enough die size to efficiently cool..  Then the consumer probably won't buy another computer for the next 10 years..

SO they keep selling us these tiny 4 cores that are really hard to cool with huge thermal density, keeping both clocks down, and forcing us to trade up..

[ApocalypseMaow]

The man will always try to keep us down

[tp4tissue]

If that 5.1 turned out to be say a 6 core..  omg.. overclocking market would tank overnight..


People would just buy a dual socket board , and wouldn't have to upgrade for 10 years..


There'd be no point to overclocking..   



ALso, if you think about it.. it might even go for 20 years..  because power efficiency isn't useful to the average consumer, because cost of electricity is not a major issue with even 10 modern cpus...



I think I'd happily pay $400 for the board and up to $800 for that cpu..

[tp4tissue]

Come on AMD...  ugh................ do something...  INTEL's ruining computers for EVERYONE....

[iLLucionist]

If that 5.1 turned out to be say a 6 core..  omg.. overclocking market would tank overnight..


People would just buy a dual socket board , and wouldn't have to upgrade for 10 years..


There'd be no point to overclocking..   



ALso, if you think about it.. it might even go for 20 years..  because power efficiency isn't useful to the average consumer, because cost of electricity is not a major issue with even 10 modern cpus...



I think I'd happily pay $400 for the board and up to $800 for that cpu..

Nahh... more extreme / sicker == always better. As Jeremy Clarkson puts it "PPOOOWWEEERRRRR".

If there would be a stock CPU with 5.1 GHz people wanna and gonna overclock it up to 7 GHz minimum. I guarantee it.