Intel Releases the i975X Express Chipset

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:35 am

INTEL BRINGS HOME EXTREME MULTICORE GAMING FOR THE HOLIDAYS

NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2005 – The era of multi-core PC gaming is here and at the Intel-sponsored Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) World Tour Grand Finals some of the best players, hardware and software come together.

“We have spent the last year empowering more than 10,000 software developers with thousands of multi-core development platforms,” said Bill Kirby, director of planning in Intel’s Software and Solutions Group. “We are now beginning to see the new threaded applications and multi-core platforms gamers have been waiting for.”

Intel’s multi-core processors, such as the Intel® Pentium® processor Extreme Edition, let software developers add features to their games that create more realistic experiences. The ability to run different threads – or components – of the game in parallel can not only make the game run faster, but can also make it more engaging.

“In Black & White* 2, multi-core technology enabled our development team to move the entire physics engine – the component that makes game objects behave like real-life objects – to a separate thread,” said Tim Rance, chief technology officer of Lionhead* studios. “As a result, we have managed to run many more objects in the physics simulation so complex scenes appear much more realistic. We also utilized multi-core capabilities in our title The Movies* and are excited about the future of multi-core processing.”

Another exciting PC game available for the holidays, City of Villains* by NCsoft* North America, also benefited from work with Intel’s software team.

“Thanks to Intel multi-core development systems and tools, we are creating cutting-edge games that benefit from these new technologies,” said Jeremy Gaffney, vice president of Product Development at NCsoft. “We see appreciable differences in frames per second and rendering times thanks to the threaded game engine technology.”

Additional multi-core gaming titles are listed at http://www.intel.com/go/gaming

Here at the CPL World Tour Grand Finals in New York, enthusiasm for the future of gaming has never been stronger. “The Pentium processor Extreme Edition offers us a great gaming experience and gives us an edge in competition,” said FNATIC’s Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager, the top seed at the CPL World Tour Grand Finals. “And we are really excited to run the new Intel® 975X Express chipset-based platform through its paces.”

New Extreme Performance Gaming Platform

Just released, the Intel 975X Express chipset platform provides a high-performance, customizable gaming experience. For the enthusiast, the Intel 975X Express chipset platform offers dual graphics capability – allowing two graphics cards to power a game simultaneously – for the most demanding games and gamers. This platform will be available soon from various manufacturers and more information is available at http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:45 am

Sweet.

So all these games supposedly have "support" for dual core?
* Call of Duty 2
* City of Villains
* F.E.A.R.
* World of Warcraft
* Age of Empires III
* Black & White 2
* Peter Jackson's King Kong
* The Movies
* Battlefield 2
* Battlefield 2: Special Forces
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
* Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

What exactly does that mean?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:52 am

they have been threaded for dual core ;)

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:55 am

Apoptosis wrote:they have been threaded for dual core ;)

That's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure. Thanks for clearing that up. This is indeed GREAT news!!! No I just need find $300 for a dual core

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:56 am

wait till the Pressler comes out in Jan. With a 65nm processor that has an SLI/Crossfire chipset it should be interesting to see the performance numbers.

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:58 am

Apoptosis wrote:wait till the Pressler comes out in Jan.

I'm looking forward to Conroe (I think). Isn't that the core with the completely different architecture? Is Pressler still based on the Prescott and P4 architecture?

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:34 pm

That's the best news I've heard all week!!!!!

I'd like to see a comparrison between Pressler and X2 too...I suspect AMD will win...but the next generation cpu from Intel may tell another story! (hopefully) --> AMD have being getting way to much praise... we need to see Intel come back....Northwood was too long ago...sigh

Post by **Illuminati** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:23 pm

(still uses Northwood... waiting to upgrade) ...