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"When will they release a processor faster than 3.06ghz!"

Its been 4 month or so now since the faster procer came out - Not over clocked mind!

Does anyone know of any news of when the next one is going to be realeased

Could be there is so much going on it's hard to keep track.

c.b.

You may have been reading about Intels. They have to emulate x86 code so they run like treacle.

do they, oh i read differant somewere, might be wrong then.

c.b.

Athlon64s run x86 code natively, heh.

See, AMD_MAN knows what I'm talking about.

;)

Turbo SMT = simultaneous multi threading, it is basically to do with dual processors and actually there are mods to do to the athlon xp processors to enable this (the same as the L1 bridge trick)so basically making the xp chip into an MP chip and enable to use a dual cpu motherboard.

I agree that Hyper-threading is not really worth getting at the moment but intel have released the coding to enable the use of this to software manafacturers, software should start coming out and by the time it comes a bit more main stream then the price of the cpu will have gone down also they will have released a 64bit version of the cpu by then (which will probably mean another software problem).


c.b.

I've been looking around, and the fact that the Hyper-threading is implemented on a single pipleine does limit the ability somewhat, but the problems have been arising on programs written for dual processor systems where you obviously have completely seperate processor cores, and not software specifically implemented to execute different threads on a single core.

Bonus the HT technology is only there to make up for the blatent flaws in the P4 architecture that were there to start with. Furthermore in many appplications HT actually reduces performance, and even in ones which are optimised for it the speed increase is hardly visable. Read some of the reviews on hexus/etc.

Who the hell needs more than 3GHZ anyawy!?

Who cares?? The most important thing about that processor is the new Intel "Hyper-threading". We now need to see many, many more programs written to support different processes which cn be executed simultaneously on a single desktop PC, this could be a technology which brings games on leaps and bounds, in PCs at least, the PS2 games console already has a split processor sort of set-up.