Instant on? Of course. Think about. Saving all of the startup files and bootloader in the ram, that will store information all the time. How could it losse power? It wont. It doesn't need an electric charge to store the bits in the ram, so will hold, in theroy, for ever. This is a huge breakthrough. And the amount of mem it could hold in one chip could easily be much higher then the 256MB that the early chips will run. Think about having 1GB of RAM on your home machine with just one chip, that will boot up your machine instantly and will never losse the information stored in the memory if your power get's cut off from not paying the electric company:) awwww, that will be sweat.
And yes, faster surfing and faster downloads as well. The high-end servers will be able to store (or cache) the file's its serving up in the lighting fast memory. It will access the memory faster than a scsi raid getting thousands of hits per minute, or even per second.
And I'm SURE that the chips will be shielded, so you dont need to worry if it will wipe out your hard drive or floppy when its turned on. I would think that IBM wouldn't be THAT stupid:)
--we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Thats the bottom line. The amd chip is much cheaper than the P3 or (if you dare...) a P4. Sure, if you wanted to make a power-packed server that is not mission critical and doesn't get 1,000,000 hits a day and you don't want to put "that much" money in to it, slap an amd in there! Just be sure to back everything as much as possibal. The P3 does perform better in the sence that it is more stable and, yes... faster in most applications on the server-side.
For the gamer, an amd is the way to go. It's cheap, fast and get's the job done. Graphics designer? Spend the money on a P3.
To be tottal honest, its a matter of opion. Some people (like myself) like Intel. Other (*cough* cheaper) people like AMD. But don't forget that alot of stablility issues deal with the other hardware you have (motherboard, ram, video card etc..). You CAN'T blame everything on your cpu.
just my two cents
--we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Sitting at my desk reading stuff on/. like normal, I noticed a new topic about AMD vs Intel. But only one reply? I started to read the message and found my self reading a rather odd story about a man making love to a certian "Crippled Karen". Don't get my wrong, it was a great short story. But I'm still not sure what cpu he feels is better. What about Karen? Would she rather have an AMD or an Intel in that new motorized wheel chair with a computer and an lcd mounted on the left armrest?
Anyway... good story, just possibly the wrong the place to post it.
--we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
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Instant on? Of course. Think about. Saving all of the startup files and bootloader in the ram, that will store information all the time. How could it losse power? It wont. It doesn't need an electric charge to store the bits in the ram, so will hold, in theroy, for ever. This is a huge breakthrough. And the amount of mem it could hold in one chip could easily be much higher then the 256MB that the early chips will run. Think about having 1GB of RAM on your home machine with just one chip, that will boot up your machine instantly and will never losse the information stored in the memory if your power get's cut off from not paying the electric company :) awwww, that will be sweat.
:)
And yes, faster surfing and faster downloads as well. The high-end servers will be able to store (or cache) the file's its serving up in the lighting fast memory. It will access the memory faster than a scsi raid getting thousands of hits per minute, or even per second.
And I'm SURE that the chips will be shielded, so you dont need to worry if it will wipe out your hard drive or floppy when its turned on. I would think that IBM wouldn't be THAT stupid
--we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Thats the bottom line. The amd chip is much cheaper than the P3 or (if you dare...) a P4. Sure, if you wanted to make a power-packed server that is not mission critical and doesn't get 1,000,000 hits a day and you don't want to put "that much" money in to it, slap an amd in there! Just be sure to back everything as much as possibal. The P3 does perform better in the sence that it is more stable and, yes... faster in most applications on the server-side.
For the gamer, an amd is the way to go. It's cheap, fast and get's the job done. Graphics designer? Spend the money on a P3.
To be tottal honest, its a matter of opion. Some people (like myself) like Intel. Other (*cough* cheaper) people like AMD. But don't forget that alot of stablility issues deal with the other hardware you have (motherboard, ram, video card etc..). You CAN'T blame everything on your cpu.
just my two cents
--we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Sitting at my desk reading stuff on /. like normal, I noticed a new topic about AMD vs Intel. But only one reply? I started to read the message and found my self reading a rather odd story about a man making love to a certian "Crippled Karen". Don't get my wrong, it was a great short story. But I'm still not sure what cpu he feels is better. What about Karen? Would she rather have an AMD or an Intel in that new motorized wheel chair with a computer and an lcd mounted on the left armrest?
Anyway... good story, just possibly the wrong the place to post it.
--we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.