Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the coming-to-a-pc-near-you dept.
Scrooge919 writes "An article on ZDNet discusses AMD's plan for the successor to Opteron -- the K9. The biggest feature will be that it contains multiple cores. The K9 is currently slated for the second half of 2005, which would be less than 3 years after the Opteron shipped."
They're doing what now?
by
PaschalNee
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For those of you who live mainly in the software world (myself included) there's a very good overview of all things CPU on Arstechnica. Detailed enough to be interesting but starts at a basic enough level.
And remember than nothing impresses the ladies more than sombody who knows why multiple cores might be interesting
Re:When will it end???
by
The+One+KEA
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It's only a drag when operating in x86 Legacy Mode on an AMD64-based core. When you're operating in x86-64 Compatibility Mode or x86-64 Long Mode, you get access to sixteen 64-bit registers. Here's a graphic which explains it quite nicely: http://www.devx.com/assets/amd/5929.gif
The rest of the article explains the concepts of the AMD64 architecture. Link: http://www.devx.com/amd/Article/16018
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I know this has been said countless times, but...
by
Knights+who+say+'INT
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Why do I need -more- processing power?
I don't do any 3D rendering, but I believe I do more processor-heavy work than the average Carlos - sp. big numerical differential equation and bigbigbig linear optimization stuff in Maple - and my tienda-de-descuentos K6-II still crunches the stuff faster than I could ever desire.
The main problem with personal computers is that they use hard drivers for memory swap space when they should be using RAM memory to cache for hard drives.
If I could spend $500 on my computer right now I'd fill it with as much memory as the architecture allows. I'd then run a ramdrive and direct many of the computer activities to there.
I mean, when a webpage opens, a banner is downloaded to my hard drive. That's just irrational. And it prolly wears the hard drive's physical mechanism faster too.
But then again, we don't have a benchmark of ram speed, nor do we have hypemakers touting new, faster RAM. And prolly there's not too much activity in technologically improving RAM either.
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For those of you who live mainly in the software world (myself included) there's a very good overview of all things CPU on Arstechnica. Detailed enough to be interesting but starts at a basic enough level.
And remember than nothing impresses the ladies more than sombody who knows why multiple cores might be interesting
It's only a drag when operating in x86 Legacy Mode on an AMD64-based core. When you're operating in x86-64 Compatibility Mode or x86-64 Long Mode, you get access to sixteen 64-bit registers. Here's a graphic which explains it quite nicely: http://www.devx.com/assets/amd/5929.gif
The rest of the article explains the concepts of the AMD64 architecture. Link: http://www.devx.com/amd/Article/16018
SCREW THE ADS! http://adblock.mozdev.org/ Proud user of teh Fox of Fire - Registered Linux User #289618
Why do I need -more- processing power?
I don't do any 3D rendering, but I believe I do more processor-heavy work than the average Carlos - sp. big numerical differential equation and bigbigbig linear optimization stuff in Maple - and my tienda-de-descuentos K6-II still crunches the stuff faster than I could ever desire.
The main problem with personal computers is that they use hard drivers for memory swap space when they should be using RAM memory to cache for hard drives.
If I could spend $500 on my computer right now I'd fill it with as much memory as the architecture allows. I'd then run a ramdrive and direct many of the computer activities to there.
I mean, when a webpage opens, a banner is downloaded to my hard drive. That's just irrational. And it prolly wears the hard drive's physical mechanism faster too.
But then again, we don't have a benchmark of ram speed, nor do we have hypemakers touting new, faster RAM. And prolly there's not too much activity in technologically improving RAM either.