Two Approaches to the Next-Generation Desktop

Posted by timothy on Monday February 25, 2002 @01:29PM from the neck-and-neck-and-gizzard dept.

puppetman writes: "Tom's Hardware has a review up of a pre-production P4/2666 using 533 mhz Rambus memory (and shows it stomping the competition). The Pentium 4 needs memory bandwidth, and DDR doesn't supply it. Or does it? Anandtech, ironically, has a preview of the E7500 chipset from Intel - dual channel DDR with support for up to 16 gig of RAM. With a new bus architecture, this looks perfect for high-load databases that need wide pipes to hard-drives, memory, and ethernet. Both of these technologies look great for mid-range database servers. Anandtech claims that dual DDR200 will provide 3.2 gig/second bandwidth, where Tom claims that DDR266 (single channel) offers only 2.1 gig/second. Intel is sure hedging their bets. I wonder what AMD has up their sleeves."

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imagine.... by edrugtrader · 2002-02-25 13:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

a beowulf cluster of these

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Re:Photoshop by mill5ja · 2002-02-25 14:44 · Score: 0, Redundant

>yes i run a goth/punk/emo porn site [suicidegirls.com].

Damn, I love that site. Hot/exotic chicks!

On topic, new CPUs are awesome. They drive the price of mid range CPUs down, this allows more people to upgrade. More people upgrading allows game developers and whatnot to develop applications that require more power.

With that said though, the HD is where the most development is needed.

-jason m