So the existence of 81 physicists from India disproves the OP's point? The existence of a wikipedia article does not make one famous. Do you realize how poorly this total compares to the number of American physicists, especially compared on a per-capita basis?
Speaking as someone who does some interviewing, lying out your ass about overseas education is also a factor. It's the flip side of the frequently-reported "highly educated immigrant can't get a job" story and it is a huge problem in my industry (I should disclaim my experience is in Canada, I would be surprised if this weren't also true in the US and Europe as well).
cost - yeah, I can see Intel willingly passing the savings...anyway, cpu + mobo combo hasn't got cheaper at all
This is where Intel's monopolistic behaviour rears its ugly head. In the past, the GPU needed to be integrated on the motherboard. Now it's on the CPU but Intel motherboard chipsets cost the same as previous generations. Seems like a terrific opportunity a market for 3rd party chipset vendors to make an offering (like the good old days when you could choose from VIA, Nvidia, SiS, Intel,...)
But wait, Intel will no longer allows 3rd parties to produce chipsets for their CPUs and keeps the profits from the artificially inflated chipset market to itself. Intel may have the performance crown, but its reasons like this (and the OEM slush funds to lock out AMD from Dell and other vendors) that keep me from supporting "Chipzilla"
Well you should have mentioned the rural challenges earlier!
Those of us in more urban settings with more controlled climate and power don't experience these problems and yours should not be taken to be normal experience. Particularly, I've never seen a CPU failure and motherboard and video card failures are nearly always the result of bad capacitors.
Cool, how does the keyboard button know that it's only the web browser whose volume you want to control? Oh wait, you don't know how to read nor have you seen almost every keyboard produced in the last 10 years.
Why would he bring up trusted path when he could bring up Genuine Advantage? Do we truly have a 5-digit UID Slashdotter unaware of this??
Users were NEVER clamouring for Trusted Path. DRM on physical media is a media cartel creation of no benefit whatsoever, and please don't ever forget it.
Minor nitpick but that would be a 6TB drive. Probably 2 dual sided platters at 0.750TB per side.
What's the nitpick? The platter capacity is 750GB regardless of whether or not it's dual sided. Seagate has been cramming 4 dual-sided platters into a single drive for a few generations now (I'm referring to 3.5" consumer level drives of course).
This isn't exactly true given the rise of federal and provincial Human Rights Tribunals in Canada. Jailtime may not be a big risk, but financial ruin is.
Ted Kindos of Burlington, Ont., has already spent $20,000 of his own dough defending himself against a "human rights" complaint and estimates he'll add another six figures to that before it's all done.
Keep in mind this is occurring OUTSIDE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE COURT SYSTEM
I am deeply ashamed this can and does happen in Canada today. General discontent against these Human Rights Commissions is building, but not fast enough.
Different chips for different purposes - the largest of which being support for the x86 instruction set and all the OS and application support that comes along with that. Going forward, running Windows will be a less important feature (a sea change I welcome with open arms!) but for now it is still quite important.
Indeed the new generation Atom CPU is very similar (although it now has the memory controller on the CPU as opposed to original FSB architecture), but it's more appropriate to consider the Atom platform as opposed to the Atom CPU itself.
Almost every board on the market does USB3 and SATA6 except at the lowest end. The chipsets don't support it, but motherboard manufacturers put additional chips on the motherboards for both
I fully agree however that a 3 year old AMD motherboard with a new CPU gives you just about the same experience as brand new system as long as the motherboard OEM provides ongoing support through BIOS updates. I'm a loyal Gigabyte customer for this reason.
I don't know why you picked on this poor fellow, but he's not railing against the free market. He's railing against the unfair price pressures of competing against criminals who don't have the same obligations (tax, insurance, supporting a family in the USA with a higher cost-of-living than Mexico) that those who play by the rules do.
This is overly complicated for non-enthusiasts. My rule of thumb is simply make sure the PSU is 80-plus certified. 80% efficiency can't be achieved by a PSU OEM without decent quality parts.
RAM compatibility is such a huge problem that I never recommend ANYTHING other than Kingston Value RAM. You gain almost nothing from faster speed and tighter timings (not since the Athlon 64 days anyway), so standard speed, timings and ESPECIALLY VOLTAGE are key.
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So the existence of 81 physicists from India disproves the OP's point? The existence of a wikipedia article does not make one famous. Do you realize how poorly this total compares to the number of American physicists, especially compared on a per-capita basis?
Speaking as someone who does some interviewing, lying out your ass about overseas education is also a factor. It's the flip side of the frequently-reported "highly educated immigrant can't get a job" story and it is a huge problem in my industry (I should disclaim my experience is in Canada, I would be surprised if this weren't also true in the US and Europe as well).
cost - yeah, I can see Intel willingly passing the savings...anyway, cpu + mobo combo hasn't got cheaper at all
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This is where Intel's monopolistic behaviour rears its ugly head. In the past, the GPU needed to be integrated on the motherboard. Now it's on the CPU but Intel motherboard chipsets cost the same as previous generations. Seems like a terrific opportunity a market for 3rd party chipset vendors to make an offering (like the good old days when you could choose from VIA, Nvidia, SiS, Intel,
But wait, Intel will no longer allows 3rd parties to produce chipsets for their CPUs and keeps the profits from the artificially inflated chipset market to itself. Intel may have the performance crown, but its reasons like this (and the OEM slush funds to lock out AMD from Dell and other vendors) that keep me from supporting "Chipzilla"
Well you should have mentioned the rural challenges earlier!
Those of us in more urban settings with more controlled climate and power don't experience these problems and yours should not be taken to be normal experience. Particularly, I've never seen a CPU failure and motherboard and video card failures are nearly always the result of bad capacitors.
And for some strange reason, there's still a market for discrete controllers.
Discrete controllers (video, sound, RAID, NIC) offer better performance than motherboard-integrated options.
The integrated parts are fine for the vast majority of users, but many users, especially professionals in various endeavours, need better.
Cool, how does the keyboard button know that it's only the web browser whose volume you want to control? Oh wait, you don't know how to read nor have you seen almost every keyboard produced in the last 10 years.
Why would he bring up trusted path when he could bring up Genuine Advantage? Do we truly have a 5-digit UID Slashdotter unaware of this??
Users were NEVER clamouring for Trusted Path. DRM on physical media is a media cartel creation of no benefit whatsoever, and please don't ever forget it.
+1 funny mod needed for a matrox.com URL that contains the substring 'gaming'
Minor nitpick but that would be a 6TB drive. Probably 2 dual sided platters at 0.750TB per side.
What's the nitpick? The platter capacity is 750GB regardless of whether or not it's dual sided. Seagate has been cramming 4 dual-sided platters into a single drive for a few generations now (I'm referring to 3.5" consumer level drives of course).
Can you boot from this on a normal BIOS?
/boot on a RAID 5 device - our solution for cheap servers present at every site is a tiny multi-disk RAID 1 partition
First things first, WTF is a "normal BIOS"?
RHEL won't let you put
Not weird - their success scared Intel, Dell and Microsoft shitless so they have been slowly killing off any model that sells for $300 or less.
This isn't exactly true given the rise of federal and provincial Human Rights Tribunals in Canada. Jailtime may not be a big risk, but financial ruin is.
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20080227_1488_1488
Ted Kindos of Burlington, Ont., has already spent $20,000 of his own dough defending himself against a "human rights" complaint and estimates he'll add another six figures to that before it's all done.
Keep in mind this is occurring OUTSIDE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE COURT SYSTEM
I am deeply ashamed this can and does happen in Canada today. General discontent against these Human Rights Commissions is building, but not fast enough.
Different chips for different purposes - the largest of which being support for the x86 instruction set and all the OS and application support that comes along with that. Going forward, running Windows will be a less important feature (a sea change I welcome with open arms!) but for now it is still quite important.
Indeed the new generation Atom CPU is very similar (although it now has the memory controller on the CPU as opposed to original FSB architecture), but it's more appropriate to consider the Atom platform as opposed to the Atom CPU itself.
Almost every board on the market does USB3 and SATA6 except at the lowest end. The chipsets don't support it, but motherboard manufacturers put additional chips on the motherboards for both
http://giga-byte.ca/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=3284
I fully agree however that a 3 year old AMD motherboard with a new CPU gives you just about the same experience as brand new system as long as the motherboard OEM provides ongoing support through BIOS updates. I'm a loyal Gigabyte customer for this reason.
you'd have to be pretty stupid to spend that amount of money on a high end motherboard to turn your CPU into a *maybe* working higher model
Yes you would. Good thing Asus and Gigabyte have included this feature even on low-end AMD 770 chipset boards!
Fair enough, but my Linux licensing costs won't change!
Where do you get the 62W max figure for that card? AMD's spec for that GPU is an 86W TDP. Is it underclocked?
It must rotate since the crater is always in the same spot... no matter which direction you approach it from!
I don't know why you picked on this poor fellow, but he's not railing against the free market. He's railing against the unfair price pressures of competing against criminals who don't have the same obligations (tax, insurance, supporting a family in the USA with a higher cost-of-living than Mexico) that those who play by the rules do.
Or if you want to avoid closing applications/tabs before you use others without worrying about them leeching CPU cycles.
If only a process state existed whereby a process could use little or no CPU cycles.... Oh wait, it does!
Is this really the mindset Windows has imposed on supposed tech-savvy individuals these days?
It's also more expensive than every dual-core CPU on the market (more expensive than every single AMD CPU on the market for that matter).
There are other factors to consider besides "showing the most logical cores in Windows", I will leave the mockery of you over that nugget to others.
This is overly complicated for non-enthusiasts. My rule of thumb is simply make sure the PSU is 80-plus certified. 80% efficiency can't be achieved by a PSU OEM without decent quality parts.
RAM compatibility is such a huge problem that I never recommend ANYTHING other than Kingston Value RAM. You gain almost nothing from faster speed and tighter timings (not since the Athlon 64 days anyway), so standard speed, timings and ESPECIALLY VOLTAGE are key.
1.8V for DDR2
1.5V for DDR3
DO NOT STRAY NO MATTER HOW SHINY THE MARKETING IS
Ultra-sensitive fanboi unfazed by whooshing sound of missed joke flying overhead
The Xeon X3220 *IS* the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Same socket, clockspeed, cache, FSB. The performance results will be identical.