Thanks folks. You have impressed me with NOT doing the "d00d. AMD is
bettah!" type of things.
Okay folks...here are the questions so far:
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We know that Celerons were the cooler-running, value-minded chip from the
Pentium series, so will there be an incarnation of this series with the core
architechture?
Is Core like Centrino, Xeon and Itanium in that it is a different chip
design itself, and not just a tweak on numbers from Pentium, and will it be
replacing Pentium entirely?
The later Pentium 4's brought around the usage of LGA-775, (or Socket T)
and, as techies, we love that the chips are lasting longer than the
motherboard sockets rather than bending pins on the chip. Are there any
changes planned to make the socket more resiliant than the 10-20 chip-change
lifetime now expected? Will this socket or style of socket be around for
quite a while with the Cores?
The Presler core pushed the technology onto 65nm processes, is there
substantial work in the 40-45nm area yet, since we've seen some mumblings
from the RAM and semi-conductor manufacturers?
Is hyper-threading on its way out entirely?
Core 1 had both a Solo and a Duo, both aimed at laptops. Is there any
difference between those and the desktop market, and will the desktop market
have a Solo? If not, will the mobile version see usage in mini-itx and dumb
terminals, etc?
How will buying a Core2duo system instead of an AMD64-X2 system be better
for me?
Are there anymore CPUs in this series that will be limited to 32-bit only?
If not, what do you see as the future (or lack thereof) for 32-bit systems?
After looking at Intel's website on the info for Core2 Duo comparisons and
not really seeing anything obvious, what is the difference between the Core2
Duo and the Core2 Duo Extreme, other than a posted less-than 300MHz clock
difference?
Is there an advantage to Execute Disable Bit over AMD's Enhanced Virus
Protection or do they basically do the same thing?
I noticed that the clock speeds of the new Core2 Duos are far lower than the
how the PentiumD was rated. What, for instance, is the difference now
between a Core2 2.66GHz CPU and a PentiumD 2.66 GHz CPU?
AMD is talking about having quad-core chips out by 2007. Does Intel have any
plans along those lines?
My new Core 2 Duo machine is backordered because the E6600 I ordered was
delayed a week in releasing. What was the hold up for the E6600 and E6700?
What is the cornerstone of Core technology and what problems with NetBurst
does Core technology solve?
How is VT detected and enabled?
Is VT the same in the Core 2 as it is in the Core or have there been
enhancements in Core 2? If yes, what enhancement?
When is the hypervisor active in VT and when is it not?
I have problems with turning off VT in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 beta. If I
create a Linux virtual machine that uses the most recent kernels (2.4 and
2.6) I have timer interval issues (runs too fast). Older kernels are OK.
(Follow up to 6) If I turn off VT for Linux vm's that have the timer
interval issue things are fine, but if I restart the vm VT is turned back
on. It's supposed to stay off. Have you heard reports like this with Core
cpu's and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 beta?
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