Playing games from cd-rom was often impossible, as the cd-rom drive used 40%-60% cpu when reading / seeking
Might I suggest the use of an IDE controller that supports DMA... otherwise known as pretty much all of them since 1994...
And at roughly 1/40th the price of the smallest POWER 4 box you can buy, my wallet's pretty happy too!
Where did you get an Itanium-2 machine for$424.93 ?
At that price they might just displace the Athlon for price/performance!
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Err, most of the stuff I've seen pegs the Athlon XP at around 2 Ghz, not 2.4.
the 2600+ is a 2.13Ghz part, one website (Tomshardware *shudder*) stuck one in a phase change cooler and got 2.88Ghz out of it., IIRC [H]ardOCP just used agressive aircooling and got 2.45Ghz, and that's fresh from AMD sample chips of that stepping..
code from Intel's compiler frequently performs very well on the Athlon..
there's one test that Tech-report are fond of (sphinx speech recognition) that's faster on the P4 using a Microsoft compiler, and faster on the Athlon with Intels
the GUI layer (Aqua/Quartz) isn't available in sourcecode form, and it's compiled for PowerPC processors.. hence it won't run on x86 based machines, laptop or otherwise.
Sooner or later we'll hit a wall on the process size reduction side of things, at which point we might actually get chips designed to do as much per clock as possible.
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I'll give you one hint, and one hint only.
*Asus a7v333*
VIA chipsets suck, please, don't blame AMD for via's incompetance (or your poor choice of mainboard)
Playing games from cd-rom was often impossible, as the cd-rom drive used 40%-60% cpu when reading / seeking
Might I suggest the use of an IDE controller that supports DMA... otherwise known as pretty much all of them since 1994...
And at roughly 1/40th the price of the smallest POWER 4 box you can buy, my wallet's pretty happy too!
Where did you get an Itanium-2 machine for$424.93 ?
At that price they might just displace the Athlon for price/performance!
Err, most of the stuff I've seen pegs the Athlon XP at around 2 Ghz, not 2.4.
the 2600+ is a 2.13Ghz part, one website (Tomshardware *shudder*) stuck one in a phase change cooler and got 2.88Ghz out of it., IIRC [H]ardOCP just used agressive aircooling and got 2.45Ghz, and that's fresh from AMD sample chips of that stepping..
I'm sure Google want to increase performance... they just want to do it without their datacentre burning its way to the Earths core.
I can see it now, huge racks of Xserves hooked up to KVM switches..
You reduce the cache you cut the price, the power needs and the heat.
...And the performance.
code from Intel's compiler frequently performs very well on the Athlon..
there's one test that Tech-report are fond of (sphinx speech recognition) that's faster on the P4 using a Microsoft compiler, and faster on the Athlon with Intels
solution?
Nvidia or SiS chipset for the Athlon!
what is a "key" ?... could it perhaps be "a button"
So you're suggesting that it's a "hack" to make a button act like a... button?...
Catch up? Why in the world would Matrox want to "catch up"?
AutoCAD users.. for one thing..
some people need good 2d AND good 3d...
OpenGL support wasn't in existence for the R128 (outside of a very dodgy beta release) until just before the TNT was released IIRC :/
the GUI layer (Aqua/Quartz) isn't available in sourcecode form, and it's compiled for PowerPC processors.. hence it won't run on x86 based machines, laptop or otherwise.
Actually wasn't the original point of RISC to make things clock higher by simplifying the pipeline?
(The ALPHA is probably the best example of a purebred RISC chip IMO)
Sooner or later we'll hit a wall on the process size reduction side of things, at which point we might actually get chips designed to do as much per clock as possible.
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You forget, games are one of the power eaters, especially now that games are starting to get moderately decent physics
I quite agree, So lets do that :)
They have a 4500 out now, which seems to have replaced the 995.
Or you could install a disk drive that emphasizes low power consumption and limiting noise, rather than performance
Or you could go for the balance point and install a Seagate BarracudaIV, quiet and pretty fast.
well, swings and roundabouts.
the G4's have a longer pipeline, but they also have a better FPU...
In short, a G4 without Altivec is.. uh.. a G3?
No, AMD's chips come from either their own Dresden fab, or I believe UMC fabs (only making Durons there AFAIK)
RDram isn't Quad Data rate, it's narrow, high clocked and DDR
Doesn't work with AthlonXPs, it detects the SSE support, thinks it's running on a P3 and does something that causes a hard lock.
I suggest you email that to Apple, surely they have a "suggestions box" email address?