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Tom's Reviews Kryotech's 1000MHz PC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ultimate-in-overclocking dept.

GenBradly writes " Tom's Hardware gives a review of Kryotech's newest model, the SuperG. They claim this new unit allows you to stablely overclock your Athlon to 1 GHz. Though the unit weighs 70 lbs, it's much quieter than previous [Kryotech] models, only slightly quieter than elevator music. It may be a bit expensive but I would do a lot for a 1 GHz computer." Lots of pictures, lots of specs, lots of tests.

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  1. Return of the Lisp Machines? :-) by Tom+Christiansen · · Score: 4
    Gosh, if machines keep getting faster, maybe we can reincarnate the old Symbolics machines, where everything including the operating system, is written in Lisp. It's just a bit hard on your TCP retries when the garbage collector fires up. :-)

    Hey, wait a second. Isn't this what the Java folks keep waiting for? :-)/2

  2. When is it time for a new bus? by gashalot · · Score: 4

    We are always hearing about the new speeds of the processors and how much better/faster they are than the previous processor. However, with every new CPU and the accompanying motherboards the same system bus remains: PCI, ISA (being phazed out), and AGP. I understand that AGP is continually getting faster (1,2, and now 4x), but PCI and ISA aren't getting any quicker. Esp. with the new wave of gigabit ethernet cards hitting the market, even if you assumed that the CPU and disks could/would push a full gigabit, when does the PCI bus hit the wall? Are there new busses in the works for the system internals, or will everything eventually be powered by USB2 or IEEE1394?

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    -R
  3. sigh... by Hobbex · · Score: 4


    In true Tom style, he goes ahead and sticks a geometry accelerating Nvidia GeForce card in the computer he uses to test the 3d performance of the processor (effectively testing the card rather than the processor). Tom has been nutorious for always choosing setups that create bottlenecks in the wrong places, in fact, his 3d-card tests are usually the best places to look for processor performance, and vice versa...

    You would think that the most respected source for this sort of tests on the Internet could get it right for once.

    Also, since this is Slashdot we are about to get a hundred posts saying something along the lines of: Processor speed doesn't matter, its X (replace x for "harddisk read/write","bus speed","cache memory" etc). Don't believe them. Yes, there are applications where these things matter more (specifically server activity in most cases), but for 90% of us the only applications where speed is an issue at all any more are the 3d apps where it is all about processor speed (except in the case of geometry acceleration as covered above).

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    We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.