Buying New Intel Processor, G0 stepping?

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by halutzparilla

NCIXUS.com - Buy Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHZ 1066FSB 8MB Retail Box - BX80562Q6600.

vs.

NCIXUS.com - Buy Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Dual Core Processor LGA775 Conroe 3.0GHZ 1333FSB 4MB Retail - BX80557E6850.

which is better for now a days... i know q600 is good but when will the fluctuation will stop... but i wonder the extra cpu what program will utilize such....???

I think PhotoShop makes use of quad cores, as well as Supreme Commander.

[Tyreal]

Programs that actually use quad core:

THE LIST:
Real-World Applications
3D Studio MAX using Mental Ray Renderer (>99 % of 4 cores)
Adobe Premiere Elements v3.0.2 (52-85 % of 4 cores depending on source type, filters, etc.)
AutoGK v2.40 (30-53 % of 4 cores depending on source type, filters, etc.)
Cinema 4d Rendering (>99 % of 4 cores)
Dr. DivX v2.0.0 (47-65 % of 4 cores depending on source type, filters, etc.)
DVDShrink v3.2 (~90 % of 4 cores)
Lightwave 3D (>99 % of 4 cores)
Nero Suite 7.x (>90 % of 4 cores when encoding)
Noise Ninja v2.13 (~80 % of 4 cores when doing the noise reduction on an image)
Sony Vegas 7.0e (83-100 % of 4 cores depending on source type, filters, etc.)
TMPG XPress v4.2.3.193 (65-100 % of 4 cores depending on source type, filters, etc.)
Winrar v3.70 (~85-90 % of 4 cores on benchmark; ~75% in practice)
x264 v0.55.663 (>99 % of 4 cores when doing the 2nd pass of a 2 pass encode)

Benchmark/Distributed Computing Applications
BOINC Clients (most of them) (>99 % of 4 cores)
Folding@home SMP client (>99 % of 4 cores)
Muon1 DPAD (~85 % of 4 cores)
OCCT (>99 % of 4 cores)
Prime95 v25.3 (>99 % of 4 cores)
wprime v1.50 (>99 % of 4 cores)

That list is by no means complete and only contains programs that I am sure use quad core.

[halutzparilla]

hmmm... so that mean it will be good for benchmarking...
i wish the price drops more....

[NoctisReitop]

Dunno if this would be the appropriate place for this, and pardon the newbish question, but what's the difference between G0 and B3? And would it be a mistake go end up with a B3?

[Dr. V]

Not a "mistake" by any means. It's simply the overclockability of the steppings vs. each other. THe G0 steppings O/C better, but are also exaggerated because they aren't out of this world better. It IS worth it if you're an OC fiend and want the absolute highest clock, but the B3 is just fine.

Also, I like the new sig...who made it? :P

It wasn't 100% complete, but if you want to add me on MSN stixx.3@gmail.com we can fine tune it. And you saved it as a GIF, which is a bad idea because as you can see, you loose a good bit of quality.

P.S. You could also just PM me.

[One4yu2c]

Overclocking is not the difference between the two, it's the thermal properties that separate the steppings. The G0 consumes a bit less wattage than the B3 (95W compared to 105W), which in turn makes it operate a little bit cooler. That could potentially affect how far each respective chip overclocks, but as is always the case, OCing results are never guaranteed.

You can read Intel's PDF document on the changes HERE.

[Dogsbestfriend]

Well as a long time multi cpu user, the number of apps that use multi threading is small and the number that use good multi threading is smaller, however in the new multi core enviroment look for a LOT more apps to use multi threading. Why you ask? It's the only real area that apps can squeeze extra perfomance out verse thier competitors any more...well for a lot of companies.

Keep in mind however Windows, Unix and OSX are all multi threaded and now run multi prosessor as well. So that second core on your duo what does it really do? Well it takes over a lot of the extra tasks and calcs going on when you run an app.

Many users note Multi CPU systems seem "faster" than thier single core brothers. Why? Because of the off loaded extra calcs on the second processor. While this currently wont turn into things like extra Frames on your favorite video game at the moment once coders and compilers get better at multi threading it will.

It also provides a lot of other benifits from paralelism. When you can run more processes that can finish up and have the reults ready for the next process of those results you can pull off a lot of really great programing tricks that a just faster cpu can't without storing that process in memory and refetching it when you need it later. Refetching causes slowdowns and while not actualy a bottelneck is not as efficent being simultaneous caching wise.


There you go another long winded explanation of what others have told me in far less words LOL.