And which is that? Because it is unlikely to be any AMD CPU. Yeah, it'll be much cheaper, but it won't match the performance and quality. I don't know why people have not accepted this yet, AMD have great prices vs performance setups for their CPUs, but don't match the speed.

I'm almost sure AMD know this too, they can't match the massive R&D budget Intel have, so they focus on what they are good at, going for mainstream powerful CPUs, while not being expensive.

It's things like this that make people think you have to spend $3000 or more to build a computer that can max the settings.

Anyway, why is this useful?

For media! I bet you see one of these or a similar one with the same architecture in the new Mac pro's. Same with PC, for those massive media programs on the PC, they will take huge advantage of this.

I think people have taken in the whole "Todays applications don't use multiple cores" to heart, because many of the regular applications don't - its true. But games have been optimised for multiple cores now for a good few years.

But that isn't where the advantage comes into, it is the large media applications that do.

and why did people spend 599 DORRARS in 2006 for a PS3 knowing full well it would be cheaper.
because they could.

If you say so deathrow. Its always the case that Intel will bring out a CPU cheaper and just as good as their expensive (Overpriced Extreme CPU) at least 12 months after the Extreme CPU's are released.

Also why cant you get it into your head that I never once mentioned AMD nor did I mean AMD will bring out one just as good at quarter the price.

This CPU is overpriced wether you like it or not.

"Also why cant you get it into your head that I never once mentioned AMD nor did I mean AMD will bring out one just as good at quarter the price.

This CPU is overpriced wether you like it or not."

I'm not sure where this "Why cant you get it into your head" stuff, you had never replied to me before and only one reply was about AMD. I assumed you were talking about AMD because intel don't usually undercut themself in 6 months - 12 months... and not at quarter of the price. That is just silly.

As for it being overpriced, maybe a bit, but people would be willing to pay for the extra performance this gives. This sort of equipment is nearly essential in certain industries, they need the best all the time - so this will be more than worth it.

Can you people not understand that these processors arent just made for PC gamers..

Think of all the game designers, video editors, 3d moddelers, animators etc etc that use computers. All those things are extreamly reliant on CPU processing power. So the more you got, the faster it gets done.

Six core CPu? Well I guess some people have never heard of a Server or a Work Station? You should get out more. 4 and 6 core CPu's grant more ability to multitask from a single computer source when connected through a network shared by many.

You can easily tell the difference from a server using a 4 core Cpu vs. a 6 core cpu. The speed, responce time, and multitasking capabilities are greatly improved.

Software will eventually catch up to the 4 and six core CPU's. I hope somewhere in some dark damp rat infested room some evil genius is hammering out code for Physx to take advantage of 4 or 6 core Cpu's through opengl and not a stupid Ageia GPU.

lol Extreme Editions have been this price since....I can remember really.

http://www.google.com/produ...

Pentium 4 EE's are still selling at a grand if you can believe that (see link). These are not aimed for the pc gamer or average pc user

Steve, This processor won't ever really become cheap.

This isn't a standard I7 CPU it's a new version much like the Xenon CPUs those are still over the 1000 mark, and blow away all the standard CPUs easy even the I7 ones.

This CPU can handle 12 hyper threads and is unlocked as well.

Seems it give the ATI 5890 some extra legs but the CPU still becomes a bottle neck if you can believe it.

Your reading skills are top notch Zag. Especially when you think I said this CPU will be cheap at some time , which is something I never said. Also the cpu will only bottleneck the gpu if you use resolutions below 1680 x 1050 otherwise its all gpu power. http://forums.nvidia.com/in... read that carefully. it will give you all the info you need. Especialy read the section called scaling the ups and downs.

@Krayze Bone: I have a quad core Q6600 overclocked myself and I also know of high powered servers , but have you ever heard of Gamers that buy CPU's like this just for benchmarking and playing games? I know of a few sites with people who jump at CPU's like this just for gaming and becnchmarking. I agree that its good for businesses that need high powered CPU's would benefit from a CPU like this but for a gamer or benchmarker this a total waste of money. A Core i5 or Core I7 quad core is good enough for gaming for now.

@Deathrow: I was not talking about AMD because I know that at the moment AMD's CPU's cant compete with Intel's CPU's performance wise yet (not sure if they will catch up). Also Intel always bring out better CPU's within 12 months and I know Intel will bring out a CPU just as capable as this one at a lot lower price (usualy around quarter the price)in at least 12 months. Its not undercutting themselves its just the way technology is going these days.