thanks bro for article

Bro, excellent thread but I'm bit confused about multithreading. Dun mind but can give a few examples of multithreaded applications or applications that need more cores?

Errmm.... example of apps that benefits are those that do media encoding (video/audio) and video rendering. e.g. mainconcept, premier pro , etc. Here's a more extensive list : http://www.dennis.se/smp/

Another example is folding@home where you will get lots of points if you have quad-core hyperthreading.

For games, there is a trend towards using more than 2 cores i.e. 3 or 4 cores. Look at this excellent review from Tomshardware : http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/game-p...ck,2738-16.html

But that is just it!
Initial review by many sites seems to say media encoding (video/audio) and video rendering on 2600k is better and a lot cheaper than most of the core i7 9xx except for i7 980X!
I hope you can shed more light on this especially on CS5 Premier Pro.


cum see the source >> http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-san...-2100-tested/17

This post has been edited by DarkNite: Jan 6 2011, 08:59 AM

Don't understand your question. The link do show that the 2600k is faster ma......

I don't know much about video/audio apps as I don't use them.

Some benchmarks on premier pro :
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/xeon-x...-ep,2692-7.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-...em,2057-12.html

Probably can get more through googling


This post has been edited by kmarc: Jan 6 2011, 11:15 AM

Many thanks for the links but links not say about CS5 Premier Pro on 2600k.

Been holding off from buying i7 950 since last year.
Yes, initial result & review says 2600K is better and cheaper for rendering and video editing.

This post has been edited by DarkNite: Jan 6 2011, 12:36 PM

Yea,i've been holding off from upgrading my current CPU juz for Sandy Bridge and benchmarks show that it's kinda promising

think im goin to upgrade 5 years later haha

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - excellent, excellent article bro kmarc! It should definitely be pinned.

As for Ivy Bridge, I hope the current LGA1155 mobos will be compatible with these new CPUs when they come out, though I would very much doubt it simply because everyone must make money