That Sci-Fi was going to air the last few episodes of Season 4 somewhere in 2003. If this is what the original poster saw, then this is a non-event.
What would be really interesting, and my question for Santa Claus this year, is that SciFi is going for another Season of Farscape, and perhaps even more. I know, it costs a lot of money, but it's damn well the best (Sci Fi) series I've ever seen...
AMD already showed off multi-processor boards at every big computer show (CeBit for example). Tyan (http://www.tyan.com) is their "primary partner" to develop motherboards based on the AMD760MP chipset.
This means that Tyan is the first, and for now, the only one that produces such boards. And they will not come cheap:( AMD wants to do it right from the first time. Tyan already showed off a motherboard, with 6 64-bit PCI cards, integrated SCSI-160 connectors and other expensive sh!t.
First boards should start shipping to the big OEM's (Compaq, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM) in June.
It's also difficult to implement dual Athlon processors, since the EV6 protocol used with the Athlons is a point to point bus, meaning every processor will get full access to the Front Side Bus (the opposite of the GTL+ bus of Intel, where every processor must share the same FSB). Ofcourse, this gives you MUCH higher performance, but at the same time, the tracecount rises dramaticly. Therefore, all dual-CPU Athlon boards will come on an 8-layer PCB. That's way higher than the 4-layer PCB found on most motherboards now.
There are rumours though that it'll also be possible to implement the 760MP chip on a 6-layer design, but face it, due to the added traces, boards will be exponentially more expensive than the current Dual Processor boards (based on Via Apollo Pro and BX chipsets) for Intel CPU's right now...
So, to answer your question, first boards should be shipping in June, but they are not meant for the average Joe, and I think that near the end of the year, we will see 'affordable' Dual-CPU Ahtlon motherboards.
This is a bit off-topic, but I do want to tell you that I recently read on aceshardware, that AMD does NOT advice you to use the current ThunderBird and Duron processors with the 760MP chipset. It might work, but then again, it might not. Palomino is the only CPU supported by AMD to do multiprocessing on the 760MP chipset...
Mandrake also supports the ReiserFS system from the installer. I've been using it ever since.
After they got the bugs out of the journaling code, ReiserFS became the most secure filesystem for Linux, since EXT2 tends to brake under havy load due to its asynchronous mode. Running 'sync' every time became tidious.
>In addition, the NV20 is said to have a ramdac >speed of over 500MHz as well as an faster clock >rate.
I can believe that they'll increase the clockspeed, although that's not the bottle neck for current generation cards, but what are they going to do with a 500Mhz ramdac ? Even Matrox, king of the hill when it boils down to 2D image quality, has a lower clocked Ramdac (360).
Can anyone say 2048 x 1536 x 200 Hz 2D resolution?:)
>The performance increase is achieved through >better design, according to the documents: the >storage interface is a completely revised
>version compared with the Geforce 2. Downloading
>large quantities of geometrical data should now
>flow substantially faster, according to the
>documents.
Finally, they're tackling their memory bandwidth issues. They've had problems with that since the GForce1 SDR. Every upgrade was simply an increase in memory bandwidth.
OTOH, a 300% increase in FSAA speed ? Hmm, there's something fishy about those "documents". We'll see how it turns out.
We all remember how 3dfx was hyping their Napalm boards, and we all now how crap the V5 are compared to GF2 if you talk about speed.
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That Sci-Fi was going to air the last few episodes of Season 4 somewhere in 2003. If this is what the original poster saw, then this is a non-event.
What would be really interesting, and my question for Santa Claus this year, is that SciFi is going for another Season of Farscape, and perhaps even more. I know, it costs a lot of money, but it's damn well the best (Sci Fi) series I've ever seen...
AMD already showed off multi-processor boards at every big computer show (CeBit for example). Tyan (http://www.tyan.com) is their "primary partner" to develop motherboards based on the AMD760MP chipset.
:( AMD wants to do it right from the first time. Tyan already showed off a motherboard, with 6 64-bit PCI cards, integrated SCSI-160 connectors and other expensive sh!t.
This means that Tyan is the first, and for now, the only one that produces such boards. And they will not come cheap
First boards should start shipping to the big OEM's (Compaq, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM) in June.
It's also difficult to implement dual Athlon processors, since the EV6 protocol used with the Athlons is a point to point bus, meaning every processor will get full access to the Front Side Bus (the opposite of the GTL+ bus of Intel, where every processor must share the same FSB). Ofcourse, this gives you MUCH higher performance, but at the same time, the tracecount rises dramaticly. Therefore, all dual-CPU Athlon boards will come on an 8-layer PCB. That's way higher than the 4-layer PCB found on most motherboards now.
There are rumours though that it'll also be possible to implement the 760MP chip on a 6-layer design, but face it, due to the added traces, boards will be exponentially more expensive than the current Dual Processor boards (based on Via Apollo Pro and BX chipsets) for Intel CPU's right now...
So, to answer your question, first boards should be shipping in June, but they are not meant for the average Joe, and I think that near the end of the year, we will see 'affordable' Dual-CPU Ahtlon motherboards.
This is a bit off-topic, but I do want to tell you that I recently read on aceshardware, that AMD does NOT advice you to use the current ThunderBird and Duron processors with the 760MP chipset. It might work, but then again, it might not. Palomino is the only CPU supported by AMD to do multiprocessing on the 760MP chipset...
Mandrake also supports the ReiserFS system from the installer. I've been using it ever since. After they got the bugs out of the journaling code, ReiserFS became the most secure filesystem for Linux, since EXT2 tends to brake under havy load due to its asynchronous mode. Running 'sync' every time became tidious.
>In addition, the NV20 is said to have a ramdac >speed of over 500MHz as well as an faster clock >rate.
:)
I can believe that they'll increase the clockspeed, although that's not the bottle neck for current generation cards, but what are they going to do with a 500Mhz ramdac ? Even Matrox, king of the hill when it boils down to 2D image quality, has a lower clocked Ramdac (360).
Can anyone say 2048 x 1536 x 200 Hz 2D resolution?
>The performance increase is achieved through >better design, according to the documents: the >storage interface is a completely revised
>version compared with the Geforce 2. Downloading
>large quantities of geometrical data should now
>flow substantially faster, according to the
>documents.
Finally, they're tackling their memory bandwidth issues. They've had problems with that since the GForce1 SDR. Every upgrade was simply an increase in memory bandwidth.
OTOH, a 300% increase in FSAA speed ? Hmm, there's something fishy about those "documents". We'll see how it turns out.
We all remember how 3dfx was hyping their Napalm boards, and we all now how crap the V5 are compared to GF2 if you talk about speed.