Intel's new Quad Core chips

[Connexions4London]

Has anyone tried the new Quad Core chips from Intel? If so what are they like?

Do they use much power?

[Connexions4London]

Oops, posted in wrong forum...

[Marks]

Moved to the correct forum
I haven't yet nor have heard much about people using the Quad Chips.

[koz87]

do you mean the clovertown? Looks interesting, I hope to try it out soon tho

[poplar]

I have never heard about quard chips. But sounds interesting.

[InfoRelay-Greg]

I've ordered one to test it out for some projects. I will post some review once I've tested it for a while.

[ashish]

i was under the impression that to get optimum performace from mulip core pc's you need applications that utilise them...

[tomandrew]

I think a lot of people (well, at least me) were disappointed that no new Macs were announced. The new quad-cores could have just been one of the many new tricks inside a new model. Perhaps new models will be released the same time as the new OS (perhaps with Blu-ray)?

[saineys]

With four processing cores, up to 12MB of shared L2 cache¹ and 1333 MHz Front Side Bus the Intel Core 2 Quad desktops processor delivers amazing performance and power efficiency enabled by the all new hafnium-based circuitry of 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture.

Whether you're encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming HD multimedia in the office or on the go, power your most demanding applications with notebooks and desktops based on the Intel Core 2 Quad processor.

[saineys]

With four processing cores, up to 12MB of shared L2 cache¹ and 1333 MHz Front Side Bus the Intel Core 2 Quad desktops processor delivers amazing performance and power efficiency enabled by the all new hafnium-based circuitry of 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture.

Whether you're encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming HD multimedia in the office or on the go, power your most demanding applications with notebooks and desktops based on the Intel Core 2 Quad processor.