Oct-Core?

[Shantei]

When?

 

[Kage]

Now, in a way.
Look up the SkullTrail motherboard. It allows 2 Quad core CPU's to be placed on the same motherboard.

 

[Shantei]

Oh right, is there no single processor with 8 cores?

 

[Bobert93]

lol oct-core that would be sweet

 

[Xion901]

ye sounds really good, havin' 8 cores...serious power, can it be purchased?

 

[worshipme]

I think there will be a hexa-core released using the Nehalem architecture, probably in 09.

 

[superman22x]

Quad cores are still fairly new, but it probably wont be very long here until octo.

 

[ssc456]

jus lookin at the skull trail board and its not ridiculously out of budget,

"It can be yours for the trivial sum of $650 - inflated by the use of FB-DIMM server memory - but you will have to spend another $1500 apiece for two quad-cores 3.2GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors and $400 each for two top-line graphic cards"

not thats roughlt £325 for the board, £320 for 2 Q6600's £200 for 8 Gb 800 Mhz RAM and myself im not a gamer so thats £900 or lets say £1200 for everything else included. now £1200 for an octo-core 8Gb RAM machine is not bad at all,

Edit: jus realised u need diff RAM will up the price quiet a bit

 

[worshipme]

There is really no point though ATM, software just can't take advantage of all that power. (apart from a few app I suppose)
@ ssc, Q6600s don't work on a skulltrail platform, because for a start the mobo is skt771 you need Core 2 Extreme Q9775s.

 

[Celegorm]

Last year at an intel Retailedge presentation Intel said we should know a release date for oct core by feb of this year. Obviously that didn't happen but we at least know they are working on it.