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Indeed. Every time I hear news about Intel and GPUs I think about this Santa comic

This is the land of OEMs. You want to to make products that are in high demand, and have decent markup? Then you need to sign the contract with the supplier of those parts, and kiss the appropriate ass.

Nvidia has ALWAYS demanded more of OEMs over the years, WITHOUT ever giving a clear picture of what tthe rules are. . The give preferential treatment to different OEMs based on the days of the week! Remember when XFX was a PREFERRED NVIDIA OEM? Pepperidge Farms fucking does!

Or how about that time that Nvidia unleashed the pricing gauntlet,, forcing all OEMs to not drop below minimum pricing levels, basically stopping all entry-level competition?

OEMs are getting raped by Nvidia selling direct, but nobody complained about Founders Editions.

So now you lazy fucks suddenly care about Nvidia swinging their balls around the OEMs yet again? When the end result is just them forcing rebrands? I personally feel like having the exact same brands across chip lines makes shopping for cards confusing, so this isn't NEARLY the biggest dick Nvidia has made in their entire history. But the whiners will have you believe that ir's the END OF DAYS, even though they're still allowing everyone to continue to sell both Nvidia and AMD cards if they want.

/Oblg. Nvidia poking fun of Intel a few years back.

Maybe _this_ time will be different. We'll have to wait and see ...

The new graphics APIs will allow IGPs to be faster for some work loads.

The question is for how much extra work. As I understand it, from the DirectX/OpenGL side you don't really "notice" SLI/CF, the cards just take turns. That is why you effectively only get half the memory, they must mirror all the assets. With the low-level APIs all the details are exposed, but if you want to take advantage of the special cases well you have to write special case code. And the bulk of your market will not have any fancy new feature you introduced, so in the world with limited time and resources it doesn't happen in practice.

For example, it's estimated that there's 300k SLI/CF users. That doesn't really sound much when there's billions of computers out there. And a lot of them like me could probably sell their two cards and buy a single card that would be faster today if it gave me trouble, it's not necessary to get that performance (anymore). Apart from a few tech demos I doubt we'll see anyone use the low level APIs to exploit that we actually have double the RAM to play with.

This still applies. /Olbg. Intel Santa GPU
http://www.dvhardware.net/news...

Through it should be said ...

"Debunking the 100X GPU vs. CPU Myth: An Evaluation of Throughput Computing on CPU and GPU"
http://sbel.wisc.edu/Courses/M...

Intel has never been competitive with discrete GPUs from nVidia, AMD.

Olbg. http://www.dvhardware.net/news/nvidia_intel_insides_gpu_santa.jpg

Nope! I was a bit checked to learn that it is a true-blue down-to-the-metal tri-core myself! but decapped processors don't lie http://www.dvhardware.net/article6606.html

Weird, right?

/Oblg.

http://www.dvhardware.net/news/nvidia_intel_insides_gpu_santa.jpg
or
http://media.bestofmicro.com/V/6/233106/original/feature_image09.jpg

There is Inertia in the industry, but AMD gained a lot of market share when they had better processors and they lost it again when behind.

It would be a mistake to risk you PC business going exclusive. There is a definite Halo effect that sells processors.

Dell doesn't only sell Consumer machines. What about workstation class machines:

http://www.dvhardware.net/article46769.html
[i]Jon Peddie Research reports Intel owned 99.9 percent of the processor market for workstations in Q3 2010. [/i]
 

Who's the #1 graphics chip maker in the world? It's not nVidia or AMD, it's Intel. ...And we know PC gaming is larger than console gaming, but they're all for games that can play on the #1 video card on the market

I'm not sure how true that is. Small anecdote: I've been playing a lot of Battlefield Bad Company 2 recently, and I've been having fun keeping an eye on the stats. One set of numbers that keeps catching my eye is the total number of players per platform:

Players Online / Total

PC 8,572 | 1,673,453
360 7,945 | 1,570,904
PS3 5,340 | 1,527,433

Now, BC2 is definitely one of those games which will not be handled by Intel graphics, and it's also a less than a year old release which has had time to bed in on all platforms.

The number of people with a $600+ GPU might be a small fraction of the total PC market, but the total PC market far and away outstrips the number of consoles. Wiki reckons that as of January 2011 the 360 had sold 50+ million units. This article from 2008 reckons that ATI had 40% of the discrete card market with ~22 million per year. That makes ~50 million discrete cards for both AMD/ATI plus nVidia per year. Granted, not all of those will be high end, but the 360 has been around for 6 years ish, so you'd need less than 20% of the discrete card market in the same time to be mid-high end for there to be as many game-capable PCs which would probably be more powerful than the 360. That's not exactly a small market, and at least for BC2 that seems to be borne out by the numbers of PC players being higher than on either of the consoles.

Sadly it doesn't. Why? Because it appears to be running Linux.

Hmmm.... is this setup a realisation of this release from Nvidia in March

Nvidia Touts New GPU Supercomputer
http://gigaom.com/2009/05/04/nvidia-touts-new-gpu-supercomputer/

Another 'standalone' GPGPU supercomputer, without the Infiniband switch
University of Antwerp makes 4000EUR NVIDIA supercomputer
http://www.dvhardware.net/article27538.html

There have also been rumors, however, that Braidwood has been canceled, at least in the near term:
http://www.dvhardware.net/article37368.html

I read another report (maybe at Anandtech) of the same thing earlier this week. It was a sidenote in a motherboard preview claiming that Intel removed it after it showed no meaningful performance advantage in real use, unlike an SSD.

There have also been rumors, however, that Braidwood has been canceled, at least in the near term:
http://www.dvhardware.net/article37368.html

...are all bringing out computers that leverage Intel's new Nehalem architecture to enable unprecedented amounts of RAM.

I seem to recall some Tyan Phenom boards being available with roughly that much RAM, announced last year. 4 sockets, 8 DIMMs per socket, if I remember right. 32*4GB = 128GB, which is pretty close.

Ahh... here it is: http://www.dvhardware.net/article31242.html

I recognize that it's just buzzwords/marketing and poor research, but they come off like Intel fanboys - like this is the first time 192GB of RAM has been "affordable" - if you can call it that.

Then again, it's computerworld. The last 3 articles of theirs posted to /. were full of logic errors.

Unfortunately, that might incur a performance penalty. As seen here.
Note that I found this article by searching on Google for microcode performance, and I since I didn't read the whole article (since I recall reading a similar one), I make no claims that this article doesn't steal your wife etc.

Using iSCSI, I maxed out a 100 megabit connection using an IDE drive. I feel confident that I could build on that pretty easily if I were thwacking a bunch of drives in there.

My plan is a FreeNAS box exporting drives over iSCSI to a Solaris server using ZFS. Easier to expand.

One of these and One of these in One of these.

Coolermaster makes some other cases with 8 (!!) 5.25" slots, which is enough for altogether too many drives. That said, the likelihood is that even four drive slots would give you enough room to move around. 4x1TB now, then in a year when it fills up, add 3x2TB. Down the road, replace the 4x1TB with 4x4TB, and so on.

Actually, running Solaris on it directly might be more efficient. Hmm..

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-039-s-X48-to-Come-in-Just-Another-5-Weeks-67604.shtml
http://www.dvhardware.net/article22289.html
It appears the X48 chipset is actually the X38 chipset without the ECC support and for DDR3 Only? Great, just when we weren't confused!

Here's another X38 review: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3120
A chipset comparison graphic: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/chipsets/intel/x38-launch/memory-lg.png
And another review: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/09/26/intel_x38_chipset/

Kneejerk flamebait mods: Avert your eyes.

Let me start out by saying HotHardware itself is nothing better than a middle-of-the-pack hardware review site. If I remember correctly, they're a generic offshoot of one of the more major tech sites that tries (too hard) to appeal to enthusiasts but comes across as nothing more than stiff corporate whores desperately spewing cool lingo to draw hapless internet goers into viewing their adbortion (SPELLING INTENTIONAL) of a website. And I'm OK with that.

What I'm not OK with is their oh so blatant blogspam bullshit they send to slashdot. Wow guys, you reviewed a small form factor PC. If that's not front page worthy, I don't know what is! Even worse, the only link in their submission was to their own site.

In the spirit of sharing, I've decided to help out slashdotters who might be genuinely interested in the product beyond a "sweet flames, bro!" 10 pager (it's a fucking barebones system!) fluff review with some informative links. Let's start with a direct link to hothardware's printable version of the page.
http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.aspx?artic leid=986

That wasn't so hard, was it guys? Oh sure, it might cut into your ad revenue, but it would be disingenuous of me to accuse you guys of submitting this for the shallow purpose of bumping ad revenue, right? Right?!

In other news, I was looking for alternate reviews of this system. What did I find? HotHardware are apparently a bunch of linkwhoring board spamming bastards. Witness the evidence:
http://www.elitebastards.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t =19838
http://www.dvhardware.net/review/31338
http://forums.hardwarelogic.com/f68/shuttle-sdxi-b arebones-system-7831.html
http://www.mbreview.com/article.php?sid=11683
http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p =673332

Maybe the hardware review business is now just as inbred as most news blog sites. I don't know. What I do know is I spent way too much time writing this post. And this story is beyond worthless.

Here's a list of most reviews of the Radeon X1K family.

More details regarding the included accessories with both models and the exact pricing can be found here.

On that note, was there *anything* negative that came of the Microsoft monopoly ruling?

How about Mircrosoft releasing another version of Windows XP? Thats what I always wanted to see. At least they haven't released Windows ME 2005 XP Pro Corporate Web Edition with Microsoft Plus! ... I'm sure I'm missing some copyright information, hope I don't get sued next

I just found out about two new features in Longhorn. The first one is WinSat, a benchmark tool which can also be used to optimize game performance.

The second tool will finally take away the need to reinstall Windows from scratch when you install a new motherboard in your PC.

It's also claimed that during the beta cycle Microsoft will present some surprising new features..

http://www.dvhardware.net/article5557.html

A list of all FX-57 reviews, more will be added when I spot them.

http://www.dvhardware.net/article5522.html

A short summary and a bunch of links to other reviews.

I believe the first desktop systems from Apple will be based on Intel's Conroe processor.

The Conroe will probably be the first to use Intel's NetBurst successor and is planned for late 2006.

http://www.dvhardware.net/article5251.html

http://www.techsmec.com/index.php/2005/05/23/apple _denies_intel_rumour
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73057/apple-denies-eye ing-intel-chips.html
http://www.dvhardware.net/article5037.html

Of course, one could argue that Apple wouldn't want this news to be leaked

Sony already sells them for use in their ~$2,000 Firewire/USB2 external Blu-Ray Recorder.

About $32. This was the quickest link I could find, although I think the last magazine storage review I read mentioned the blanks being $25.

Since the site is /.ed:
Picture One

Picture Two

It's now all over online news..

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/12/HNmicrol eak_1.html
http://www.ebcvg.com/news.php?id=1903
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1076628412.html
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 312451
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/79 41292.htm
http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/nati onprint/021204cccanatmicrosoft.149f2b31.html
http://www.komotv.com/stories/29778.htm
http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=News &file=article&sid=671
http://www.dvhardware.net/article2423.html
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalConten t/0,289142,sid1_gci950346,00.html

Here's a few other links to similar data:

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1876
http://www.dvhardware.net/article.php?sid=1894 Has PDF's of the Spec.
http://www.intel.com/update/contents/dt10031.htm

X-bit labs - Hardware news - AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Processor is available now

AMD launches new mobile, desktop Athlon chips (IT World)

Reviews: Athlon 64 3400+

AMD extends Athlon 64 family

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Processor launched

AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3400+ Joins the Line-Up

This site has a few pictures which illustrate this new cooling technology.

A new technology available from Intel in mid-2004, will help to simplify home networking by including a wireless access point and router functionality as an embedded feature of the PC to help minimize the need for external equipment or cables to build a small home network.

Check this

Dunno if it's fake or not...