A CPU needs a matching motherboard. An i7 motherboard is generally $60 to $100 more than a comparable AM3 motherboard. So i7 CPU is $20 more and comparable motherboard is $80 (average) more. So for $100 (30% price premium) you get equal or maybe slightly more performance.
The macro-architecture contributes to i7 performance (triple channel ram, high speed link between CPU and chipset, large number of PCIe lanes) however those improvements also come at a cost in dollar terms. You can't look at the performance without looking at the associated cost.
It would cut out a lot of the bloatware in everything from office apps to websites (javascript/flash) to antivirus and even OS.
However somethings like games can only be optimized so far. I think performance/realism/immersion of games would be significantly scaled back.
Also you seem to forget than when Intel ruled the market it wasn't just the high end that was expensive. The "low end" was $500+ CPU. So you get less performance AND higher prices. No way to say that is a winner for consumer.
Just go w/ AMD chipset + AMD cpu or Intel chipset + Intel CPU.
There is no reason for using 3rd party chipset anymore. They tend to have lower performance, more issues, and more crashes.
Anyways the recommendation is academic anyways. Nvidia crappy solutions has edged them out of consideration. Taking a look at newegg for AMD newest sockets (AM3) the only chipset solution is AMD (700 series or 800 series). For Intel newest sockets 1156 & 1364 the only chipsets are made by Intel
Nvidia (nforce) SATA controllers also don't pass TRIM commands which is essential to maximizing SSD performance.
The best solution (for me) was simply getting new motherboard. This time it has AMD chipset.
The problem w/ NVIDIA chipsets has always been proprietary garbage. How/why Nvidia SATA controller doesn't play nice w/ SSD I don't know but the issue is well documented and there is no solution (other than never again trusting Nvidia w/ chipset duties).
It is good AMD got into chipset business. AMD platforms were always entrusted w/ 3rd party for the most critical aspect (chipset). With Intel you had the reliability of Intel chipset. Even when Nvidia and SIS made chipsets for Intel boards you at least had the OPTION of going with Intel solution.
Sure the chip is only $20 more $250 vs $270 however you need a motherboard. i7 MB are notoriously expensive.
One can find a decent crossfire/SLI capable AM3 motherboard for $80 - $100. Not so with i7. Prices start at $160 and tier 1 brands are more like $180 - $200.
When you consider the additional cost of the motherboard your i7 solution is running 30% higher than the X6 platform. 30% higher for maybe 10% more performance.
Performance per $ is what matters. Sure you can get that i7 but it will cost you $100 more. Someone buying an X6 could spend that $100 on a better GPU making an overall better system.
Pure power Intel has always been a leader but many of their solutions fall apart in a price per value metric.
The i5-750 & i5-760 provide great value for performance. Generally speaking they match or exceed AMD offering at that price point.
IMHO they provide good value (which is unusually for an Intel offering). Only reason I passed on that is because I had 8GB of DDR2 ram. Using AM3 CPU I could resuse the ram, going intel would require new ram (and $$$). Still the i5-7xx is a nice series of chips.
With DMCA hell I could protect something with 2 bit encryption. There is only two keys. 1 and 0. Pretty easy to crack right? It doesn't really matter. No matter how easy to crack doing so opens you up to the DMCA.
If they win expect more "paper tiger" encryption and content protection systems. The teeth isn't the weak flawed crypto. The teeth is in the lawsuit potential.
All digital content ultimately ends up as an HDMI stream protected by HDCP.
With HDCP compromised that stream can eventually be captured. All that needs to happens is for a company to make a NON-HDCP compliant capture card which just happens to be easily flashable. Think they might end up selling a lot of those? Think some companies in asia would be willing to make that "mistake".
This goes beyond Bluray. Want to get HD quality capture of your favorite HBO show, or maybe some first -release movie rentals (movies rented while still in theaters)?
Everything ends up as an HDMI stream protected by HDMI
The claim that it would be too much bandwidth or too large is just silly.
1920 x 1080 x 24 bits per pixel x 24 fps = 145MB/sec. Fast but not beyond a RAID. 120 minutes of 1080p 24fps uncompressed is roughly a terrabyte. Large but once again not beyond current disk systems.
1) capture the stream 2) dump it to disc 3) re encode with a good multi pass encoder to any format, size, resolution, and bitrate you want.
While not 1:1 it can be virtually indistinguishable from the original.
Sure hacking the compressed copy makes duplication easier and faster but the media protection is always changing. This is the unversal hack. If it is video it can now be captured *nearly* perfectly.
Once again HDCP or HDMI isn't the source of your problems.
There is NOTHING in HDCP which prevents legacy audio (DTS, DD, PCM, analog multi channel) output.
If it "isn't working" then it is an issue w/ you TV, player, receiver, or settings.
You have multiple options: 1) HDMI to HDTV. Then toslink to receiver. This "should" work but depends on your HDTV implementation. On many HDTV the optical out is flawed. Check AVS forums.
2) Bluray player has optical out. Just run that directly to receiver and bypass (the possibly buggy TV).
3) Multi-channel analog out. If your BR player and receiver have that is a third option.
You may never believe it but the reality is your inability to get DTS/DD over toslink has absolutely NOTHING to do w/ HDCP.
No because a bank is a closed key pair. For the bank there exists only a single private key and a single public key. With only a single public key you can't determine the private key.
With HDCP a single device key would have similar immunity but it would also have another larger problem. If the key ever becomes compromised you would have no mechanism to rescind it (every device in whole world would use same key). Thus the "solution" was to make each device key unique but mathematically related. They are related via the master key. Get enough device keys = get enough mathematically related keys = reverse engineer the original.
With a bank website there is no need for multiple keys. There is a public key and private key. If that pair is ever compromised it would simply be replaced (and via key revocation the old key marked as bad forever).
different scenario thus different potential weaknesses.
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Firewire doesn't use HDCP. It uses a complete different encryption standard called DTCP (also know as 5C).
If the content is flagged as "do not record" the STB will shutdown/block the firewire port. The HDCP crack will do nothing to change this restriction.
It simply is a limit of toslink (optical digital connection). Essentially toslink standard definies what your receiver "expects" to come down the pipe.
It expects (and thus can property handle) DTS Dolby Digital 2 channel stereo uncompressed
If something else (DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD, 7.1 channel uncompressed) came down the pipe your receiver would simply not "understand" the data.
If you took the movie, stripped all the encryption off of it and played it on hardware without HDCP you would have the exact same limitation.
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For $100 more.
A CPU needs a matching motherboard. An i7 motherboard is generally $60 to $100 more than a comparable AM3 motherboard. So i7 CPU is $20 more and comparable motherboard is $80 (average) more. So for $100 (30% price premium) you get equal or maybe slightly more performance.
The macro-architecture contributes to i7 performance (triple channel ram, high speed link between CPU and chipset, large number of PCIe lanes) however those improvements also come at a cost in dollar terms. You can't look at the performance without looking at the associated cost.
Double Edged sword.
It would cut out a lot of the bloatware in everything from office apps to websites (javascript/flash) to antivirus and even OS.
However somethings like games can only be optimized so far. I think performance/realism/immersion of games would be significantly scaled back.
Also you seem to forget than when Intel ruled the market it wasn't just the high end that was expensive. The "low end" was $500+ CPU. So you get less performance AND higher prices. No way to say that is a winner for consumer.
Just go w/ AMD chipset + AMD cpu or Intel chipset + Intel CPU.
There is no reason for using 3rd party chipset anymore. They tend to have lower performance, more issues, and more crashes.
Anyways the recommendation is academic anyways. Nvidia crappy solutions has edged them out of consideration. Taking a look at newegg for AMD newest sockets (AM3) the only chipset solution is AMD (700 series or 800 series). For Intel newest sockets 1156 & 1364 the only chipsets are made by Intel
Nvidia (nforce) SATA controllers also don't pass TRIM commands which is essential to maximizing SSD performance.
The best solution (for me) was simply getting new motherboard. This time it has AMD chipset.
The problem w/ NVIDIA chipsets has always been proprietary garbage. How/why Nvidia SATA controller doesn't play nice w/ SSD I don't know but the issue is well documented and there is no solution (other than never again trusting Nvidia w/ chipset duties).
It is good AMD got into chipset business. AMD platforms were always entrusted w/ 3rd party for the most critical aspect (chipset). With Intel you had the reliability of Intel chipset. Even when Nvidia and SIS made chipsets for Intel boards you at least had the OPTION of going with Intel solution.
The i7-860 costs a lot more than a the X6 1075T
Sure the chip is only $20 more $250 vs $270 however you need a motherboard. i7 MB are notoriously expensive.
One can find a decent crossfire/SLI capable AM3 motherboard for $80 - $100. Not so with i7. Prices start at $160 and tier 1 brands are more like $180 - $200.
When you consider the additional cost of the motherboard your i7 solution is running 30% higher than the X6 platform. 30% higher for maybe 10% more performance.
Performance per $ is what matters. Sure you can get that i7 but it will cost you $100 more. Someone buying an X6 could spend that $100 on a better GPU making an overall better system.
Pure power Intel has always been a leader but many of their solutions fall apart in a price per value metric.
Not sure why some people find it hard to believe.
The i5-750 & i5-760 provide great value for performance.
Generally speaking they match or exceed AMD offering at that price point.
IMHO they provide good value (which is unusually for an Intel offering). Only reason I passed on that is because I had 8GB of DDR2 ram. Using AM3 CPU I could resuse the ram, going intel would require new ram (and $$$). Still the i5-7xx is a nice series of chips.
The large point remains. In the $50 - $274.
Killing anyone who blinked is how Napoleon did it
Which is why France is the center of a hegemonic empire today.....
er wait they aren't.
With DMCA hell I could protect something with 2 bit encryption. There is only two keys. 1 and 0. Pretty easy to crack right? It doesn't really matter. No matter how easy to crack doing so opens you up to the DMCA.
If they win expect more "paper tiger" encryption and content protection systems. The teeth isn't the weak flawed crypto. The teeth is in the lawsuit potential.
Well that would require a second pass (or multiple) passes.
I fully concede that IF POSSIBLE ripping the compressed contents is easier/faster/cheaper however that might not always be possible.
With HDCP cracked there will always be the fallback to rip the output no matter what content and content protection is in place.
All digital content ultimately ends up as an HDMI stream protected by HDCP.
With HDCP compromised that stream can eventually be captured. All that needs to happens is for a company to make a NON-HDCP compliant capture card which just happens to be easily flashable. Think they might end up selling a lot of those? Think some companies in asia would be willing to make that "mistake".
This goes beyond Bluray. Want to get HD quality capture of your favorite HBO show, or maybe some first -release movie rentals (movies rented while still in theaters)?
Everything ends up as an HDMI stream protected by HDMI
The claim that it would be too much bandwidth or too large is just silly.
1920 x 1080 x 24 bits per pixel x 24 fps = 145MB/sec. Fast but not beyond a RAID.
120 minutes of 1080p 24fps uncompressed is roughly a terrabyte. Large but once again not beyond current disk systems.
1) capture the stream
2) dump it to disc
3) re encode with a good multi pass encoder to any format, size, resolution, and bitrate you want.
While not 1:1 it can be virtually indistinguishable from the original.
Sure hacking the compressed copy makes duplication easier and faster but the media protection is always changing. This is the unversal hack. If it is video it can now be captured *nearly* perfectly.
For the purpose of IE "uptake" what matters is unique computers connected to the internet.
Windows ~92
Mac OS ~5%
Linux ~1%
Other ~2% (combined)
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
Hell not supporting XP (~60% of global market) is more of hindrance to IE 9 adoption than anything else.
Once again HDCP or HDMI isn't the source of your problems.
There is NOTHING in HDCP which prevents legacy audio (DTS, DD, PCM, analog multi channel) output.
If it "isn't working" then it is an issue w/ you TV, player, receiver, or settings.
You have multiple options:
1) HDMI to HDTV. Then toslink to receiver. This "should" work but depends on your HDTV implementation. On many HDTV the optical out is flawed. Check AVS forums.
2) Bluray player has optical out. Just run that directly to receiver and bypass (the possibly buggy TV).
3) Multi-channel analog out. If your BR player and receiver have that is a third option.
You may never believe it but the reality is your inability to get DTS/DD over toslink has absolutely NOTHING to do w/ HDCP.
No because a bank is a closed key pair. For the bank there exists only a single private key and a single public key. With only a single public key you can't determine the private key.
With HDCP a single device key would have similar immunity but it would also have another larger problem. If the key ever becomes compromised you would have no mechanism to rescind it (every device in whole world would use same key). Thus the "solution" was to make each device key unique but mathematically related. They are related via the master key. Get enough device keys = get enough mathematically related keys = reverse engineer the original.
With a bank website there is no need for multiple keys. There is a public key and private key. If that pair is ever compromised it would simply be replaced (and via key revocation the old key marked as bad forever).
different scenario thus different potential weaknesses.
Firewire doesn't use HDCP. It uses a complete different encryption standard called DTCP (also know as 5C).
If the content is flagged as "do not record" the STB will shutdown/block the firewire port. The HDCP crack will do nothing to change this restriction.
That has nothing to do with HDCP.
It simply is a limit of toslink (optical digital connection).
Essentially toslink standard definies what your receiver "expects" to come down the pipe.
It expects (and thus can property handle)
DTS
Dolby Digital
2 channel stereo uncompressed
If something else (DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD, 7.1 channel uncompressed) came down the pipe your receiver would simply not "understand" the data.
If you took the movie, stripped all the encryption off of it and played it on hardware without HDCP you would have the exact same limitation.