How many cores do we really need.

[disturbedcreations]

Honestly, i wish this race to see who can cram more cores into a processor will cease soon, i love the advancement's they are making and processors are faster than ever now, but what i would like to see is for each core to have it's own dedicated bus.

What would you like to see amd or intel do in the near future?

[Oliver]

Well, at least they didn't take the path of just adding more processor slots to motherboards. By now we'd have 4 slot motherboards just to get a "quad" lol

[Cole]

How many do we need? Two cores is enough for most people.
How many do we want? As many as we can get.

[Corezy]

I heard their making a six core proccesor. Imagine how fast you could render a model with a million polygons

[disturbedcreations]

Still though, only one bus, there will be a point where you could have 100 cores compared to a 10 cores and theres no difference in speed.

[Delepitor]

there has been a 12 core prossesor out for some time now its on the mac.... but the only time i seen one it was not working correctly....

[disturbedcreations]

I think you are talking about the mac pro, and thats just 8 cores (two quad core xeons)

Link maybe?

Intel made a 80 core cpu, and amd is working on a 12 core named istanbul.

[Delepitor]

your right on that i saw one that wasnt working in someones house once

[waka]

i hava a quad core phenom nicly overclocked with a stock cooler from 2.3 to 2.56

[vincejebsen]

what's the highest that you can go?