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I would say it's very sad that we have only 64GB. We should be allowed to install at least 128GB or 256GB in consumer grade mainboards. Similarly for a develope
by cm3 11y ago
I would say it's very sad that we have only 64GB. We should be allowed to install at least 128GB or 256GB in consumer grade mainboards. Similarly for a developer workstation one has to choose a Xeon to get more cores, but a smaller GPU and twice as many cpu cores in the non-Xeon line would be great because enthusiasts don't use the iGPU anyway. Developers don't need a fast GPU unless they really need one and then any iGPU is too little too slow so most chips should have more cores in place of bigger iGPUs. It's true that your office clerk workflow doesn't benefit from more cores due to legacy software, but software developer workflows benefit a lot when building code or running virtual machines or running (modern) concurrent applications. It's very very sad indeed that AMD is the only x86 vendor who puts more cores on consumer chips. Let's hope Zen will force a change.
- lagadu 11y agoWell, they're described as being "enthusiast" chips but the core i7 line does have 6 and 8 core versions: the 5820/5930 and the 5960 respectively.
- nharada 11y agoDon't people use GPUs all the time now because of Netflix and movie streaming? My old laptop's GPU would always kick in when I played something in 1080p.
- soylentcola 11y agoI believe that streaming video can make use of GPU acceleration for decoding (to take some load off of your CPU).
- RogerL 11y agoWe are not consumers. Intel would be foolish to optimize their consumer chips for us. If you want a workstation class machine you buy a Xeon. Adding memory channels is not free, and with 4 channels you get 64GB given current DDR4 capacity.