# School me on quad core processors v build me a rig **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 12, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-quad-core-processors-v-build-me-a-rig/33794 "2007-08-12T19:18:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-quad-core-processors-v-build-me-a-rig/33794/37 "2007-08-13T09:52:06Z")
[quote=“RuBiCaNT,post:33,topic:33794"”] [http://www.overclockers.com/tips01164/](http://www.overclockers.com/tips01164/) SLOW is defined as being NOT AS FAST as Intel’s… [/quote] Dude…are you serious?? > Here is what Intel has at around the same time that Barcelona (That’s the codename for the Quad Core AMD, Marcus)… > [http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/hwdb.php?tid=837360&tp=Intel-Penryn-Preview&rid=837360](http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/hwdb.php?tid=837360&tp=Intel-Penryn-Preview&rid=837360) The AMD Quad Cores are suppose to theoretically out perform the Xeon processor line…wait until it’s released later this year. Clock speed is irrelevant at this point. Multi-core processing it where technology is headed. Intel even had talks to produce a processor with 64 cores by 2009 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-quad-core-processors-v-build-me-a-rig/33794)._