Intel Blurs The Lines Between 4 And 6 Cores

[Kadri]

http://www.conceivablytech.com/1840/products/intel-blurs-the-lines-between-4-and-6-cores/

[Henry Blewer]

The new processor is good news;,...when I will be able to buy a new computer. The article and Intel sort of confuse me. Why so many similar processors? Wouldn't be less expensive to make one model of the i7? I can see having multiple core clock speeds, but the models are so similar...

[FrankB]

I'm going to skip all these models, as a consumer. I've got an i7 920, which was a breakthrough chip technology when it came out.
So I will stick with that until the next breakthrough will be available.
So for example, I may be tempted again when 8 cores (with HT) are at or below 320 USD or 250 Euro. I may even wait longer for 16 cores, perhaps.
In other words, I am not going to buy if my renders would be just 20% faster. That's nice, but it's all still the same order of magnitude.

Frank

[Oshyan]

Yes, the i7 when it debuted was really quite a jump, eh? It looks like Intel's next chip will be pretty impressive too, but not as big a difference. Maybe the one after that...

- Oshyan

[Kadri]

...Why so many similar processors? Wouldn't be less expensive to make one model of the i7?
I can see having multiple core clock speeds, but the models are so similar...

They produce nearly all of them in the same way on the same product line.
By the time they test these CPU's the very good ones get labeled as the top models and the lower ones accordingly...
So they do not spend additional money and can sale the bad CPU's too.
(The not so good or little damaged ones by shutting down the bad parts in the CPU)

You get the picture , Njeneb. I searched for an article i read somewhere in the past but couldn't find.
And i have a feeling by blurring the model features and so they sell more or they wouldn't do this.
I think there are definitively some research or-and experience behind this.

If some of you here know something about this or can post some links it would be nice  

But as a consumer i hate these practices...