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Intel in the GHz Game Again - Skulltrail Hits 5 GHz
An anonymous reader writes "Intel's Skulltrail dual-socket enthusiast platform has been making the rounds on the web for half a year or so, but we haven't seen many details yet. TG Daily got a close look at an almost complete prototype, which surely sounds almost like a production ready version, judging from the article. Everything that TG Daily describes sounds like Skulltrail PCs will be very limited in availability and insanely expensive. Intel also has said it has developed 'special' Xeon processors with desktop processor attributes just for Skulltrail. These chips are currently running at a stable 5 GHz."
I guess the skulls in it's trail are the heads of AMD execs.
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Everything that TG Daily describes sounds like Skulltrail PCs will be very limited in availability and insanely expensive.
Obviously, it's the only architecture hand-designed by Dethklok.
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It will be 20% faster, 200% hotter, needs a 300% nosier fan, consumes 500% as much power.
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And will be obsolete in a year. Honestly, who spends thousands of dollars every year for the most advanced stuff? Even if you did have a Skulltrail, the rest of you system would bottleneck it. 3 8800GTX's would be the bottleneck, 8GB's of the fastest DDR3 ram would bottleneck, and your harddrive would bottleneck too. The only thing Skulltrail gives you is bragging rights.
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Measuring computer performance in Hz is like buying a car based on red line RPMs. It only tells you one component that is meaningless by itself. Just like a car needs torque to give rpm's context, processors need how many instructions can be completed per cycle to be compared to the frequency. I've lost faith in the MHz race and generally look at benchmarks closest to the intended purpose of the processor.
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I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
Dude, you can run linux on a wristwatch. The question is, can it run Vista?
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mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
You just made an almost-sensible car analogy. I didn't think that was allowed here.
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As long as you have an ample supply of liquid nitrogen.
To many people that's all they're looking for. It's like buying an F-350 when the most you use a car for is getting groceries, or getting the biggest house you can possibly afford even though you're a small family of three, and so on.
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Cores only help so much- if your problem is not paralelizable, or if it is only minimally so, a billion cores won't help. A word processor is not going to work any faster on a 1000 core machine than on a 1 core machine. Video games might see a small speed up from a multicore, but not that much of one- it doesn't break down into equally weighted threads. For the vast majority of users, 2 cores aren't even really utalized (email and web browsing doesn't use 2 cores). I doubt any home user will see much improvement beyond 2 cores, and absolutely none after 4 even for hardcore multitaskers. Business and scientific apps will see some beyond that, but memory tends to be the bottleneck there- we'd be better off increasing memory bandwidth and latency than clock speed.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
This sounds a lot like a '640k' quote to me.
A properly functioning word processor can already do pretty much everything 99.99% of what a user asks of it as fast as the user can tell it to do something, even on the bottom line processor.
Today's video games, sure, aren't going to benefit much from multicore. But I disagree that the benefits for future games will top out at 2. I mean - you could have 1 core handling user input and processing, 1 core handling the physics enviroment, 1 core for unit AI, 1 core for graphics information. There's a quad core right there.
Business and scientific apps will see some beyond that, but memory tends to be the bottleneck there- we'd be better off increasing memory bandwidth and latency than clock speed
Then they can start worrying about beefing up memory bandwidth - I've read about some technologies in the pipe that will help with this. And the scientific community can always use more bandwidth - they are one of the larger users of supercomputers, and this might take a project from 'Need to rent 24hrs on the supercomputer for $$$' to 'I can run this on my work computer for a month/week to get the same results for $'.
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What king-matic didn't tell you is all that extra power is dissipated via X-Rays. It is called Skulltrail after all.
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The AMD Skullfucker-64 5300+ will 0wn this.
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