"I WANT LOW-LATENCY DDR PC266 OR BETTER SDRAM!" well, dell now makes 400mhz ram. not sure how, or much of anything else about it, just saw it in a pretty brochure they mailed me.;) in any event, screw rambus, screw ddr, if you can get 400mhz main memory. sounds like it would rock on athlon 200mhz fsb, I wanna know why no one has done it yet.
"hard disks, busses, memory, etc." - well, they already are work is being done on scsi-5, dell has 400mhz ram, amd is using the (nearly twice as fast as intel's) alpha ev6 200mhz bus, etc etc. I think the bottleneck became the user about a year ago. no one knows enough about the machines they are running to use them appropriately
no, cooling a system does NOT make it faster. at cooler temperatures, digital circuits settle into a higher or lower state _faster_, but the CLOCK speed will stay the same unless the temperature of the crystal itself changes (which is usually physically located somewhere else, although not always, and actually decreases as temperature decreases but not by much). no, you can't overclock an athlon with fancy motherboard tricks for the same reason you can't overclock an sy033 with fancy motherboard tricks. the processor won't run at a higher clock speed when the clock is set on the chip itself. in any event, it's not that hard to remove the plastic case, and use desoldering braid or some such to remove the smd resistors, and solder tape to solder them where you wan them. again, I refer you to tomshardware.com's site, which neither of you obviously read, since it has a great writeup on the performance of the athlon and how to overclock it
yes, as anyone who's read tomshardware.com's writeup has noticed, you can overclock an athlon by desoldering some surface mount resistors and changing their relative locations. HOWEVER, I can' think of any way a motherboard could get around the clock and multiplier settings of the resistors on the chip (and I should know, I've designed a processor before). anyone who tells you there is a motherboard that can do this is wrong. anyway, the arrangement is similar to intel's multiplier-locked chips (sy033 et al), but you can still change it with some effort. for the same reason you can't overclock those chips using _whatever_ motherboard, you can't oc an athlon with motherboard tricks.
is preinstalling linux really that great an idea? sure, open source and all, but isn't the great part of open source the freedom to choose? does preinstalling give you freedom of choice? of course not, vendors won't preinstall every os under the sun. I would much rather vendors ship systems with NO os, and let users decide (vendors lost that logic long long ago, when there was no "common" os like windows).
AMD chips after the super7 (athlon and future faster chips) run on a completely different bus than any pentium ever has or likely will run. there is absolutely no compatibility between alpha ev6 slot A and wintel slot 1, and I don't know why it is so hard for people to realize this
a disproportionately large portion (compared with the general public) of the hackers I know like They Might Be Giants, Dave Mathews, etc. The crackers I know like metal bands.
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"I WANT LOW-LATENCY DDR PC266 OR BETTER SDRAM!" well, dell now makes 400mhz ram. not sure how, or much of anything else about it, just saw it in a pretty brochure they mailed me. ;) in any event, screw rambus, screw ddr, if you can get 400mhz main memory. sounds like it would rock on athlon 200mhz fsb, I wanna know why no one has done it yet.
"hard disks, busses, memory, etc." - well, they already are work is being done on scsi-5, dell has 400mhz ram, amd is using the (nearly twice as fast as intel's) alpha ev6 200mhz bus, etc etc. I think the bottleneck became the user about a year ago. no one knows enough about the machines they are running to use them appropriately
no, cooling a system does NOT make it faster. at cooler temperatures, digital circuits settle into a higher or lower state _faster_, but the CLOCK speed will stay the same unless the temperature of the crystal itself changes (which is usually physically located somewhere else, although not always, and actually decreases as temperature decreases but not by much). no, you can't overclock an athlon with fancy motherboard tricks for the same reason you can't overclock an sy033 with fancy motherboard tricks. the processor won't run at a higher clock speed when the clock is set on the chip itself. in any event, it's not that hard to remove the plastic case, and use desoldering braid or some such to remove the smd resistors, and solder tape to solder them where you wan them. again, I refer you to tomshardware.com's site, which neither of you obviously read, since it has a great writeup on the performance of the athlon and how to overclock it
yes, as anyone who's read tomshardware.com's writeup has noticed, you can overclock an athlon by desoldering some surface mount resistors and changing their relative locations. HOWEVER, I can' think of any way a motherboard could get around the clock and multiplier settings of the resistors on the chip (and I should know, I've designed a processor before). anyone who tells you there is a motherboard that can do this is wrong. anyway, the arrangement is similar to intel's multiplier-locked chips (sy033 et al), but you can still change it with some effort. for the same reason you can't overclock those chips using _whatever_ motherboard, you can't oc an athlon with motherboard tricks.
is preinstalling linux really that great an idea? sure, open source and all, but isn't the great part of open source the freedom to choose? does preinstalling give you freedom of choice? of course not, vendors won't preinstall every os under the sun. I would much rather vendors ship systems with NO os, and let users decide (vendors lost that logic long long ago, when there was no "common" os like windows).
AMD chips after the super7 (athlon and future faster chips) run on a completely different bus than any pentium ever has or likely will run. there is absolutely no compatibility between alpha ev6 slot A and wintel slot 1, and I don't know why it is so hard for people to realize this
a disproportionately large portion (compared with the general public) of the hackers I know like They Might Be Giants, Dave Mathews, etc. The crackers I know like metal bands.