the CISC/RISC line has been blurred some some time now, since the P6 (Pentium Pro) and it's decendents are basically RISC excution cores with a cisc translation frontend...
The Tualatin will also work with Serverworks chipsets (Supermicro do a few boards based on them)
AND
Powerleap sell a convertor that allows Tualatins to run on slot 1 mainboards
Anyone who knows what access time is would disagree with that statement.
me included.
the reason 7200rpm and 10k, and even 15k rpm disks are faster is because the rotational latency is lower, so the heads can be over the correct bit of data sooner.
raid-0 using a pair of 5400rpm disks might give nice sustained read speeds, but I'd be willing to bet it wouldn't be significantly faster than a single top of the line ATA100 disk or an u160 10k or 15k scsi disk. (fyi, 10k disks are edging towards 60MB/s sustained, and ATA100 disks aren't far behind, although their access times are slower)
I've been looking at building a box to sit with the AV hardware, the basic aim is to stuff the fastest gear possible (that runs cool) into a case and then cool it either passively, or with fan(s) that aren't audible over the harddisk..
rough spec:
Tualatin P3 (they run cool enough to not NEED a fan, and a 1.2Ghz Tualatin is many things.. slow isn't on of them)
Seagate BarracudaIV ATA, right on the heels of the fastest IDE disks available, and almost completely silent..
suggestions on quiet/fast video hardware?, I thought about a Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500 with a BIG passive heatsink on it.. but I'm wary of that since my GF2MX with passive cooling gets very toasty...
hmm, perhaps I'm gonna have to suffer some low-flow 80mm fans or something, just to give some semblance of cooling......
for the attention of the moderators, that wasn't a troll.
seriously, how will a Dreamcast cope with power being cut whilst the NVRam is being written to?
Put linux on it and it'll be fine until she manages to break it?
maybe.. (how tolerant of being powered off unexpectedly etc is Linux on Dreamcast ?)
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indeed..
a PCI card with a crusoe and some motorola 68k code morphing.. and some PPC morphing.. and some x86 morphing.. etc etc would make a FANTASTIC emulation platform tho'
I've been throwing around a plan to construct a case that fits in the footprint of my Hitatchi DVD player..
say.. 7 inches tall, 16 wide/10 deep or so, large enough to fit a decently powerful PC (probably Tualatin 1.2Ghz + ATI 8500 AIW + TV card + something like one of these for sound output, as a hometheater/console replacement/hifi replacement box..
Preferably I'd be able to let it just dissipate heat off passively.. (hence the Tualatin)
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It should be noted that the G4 in the imac isn't backed up by Level 3 cache (as far as I can tell), AND it has a 100Mhz system bus...
so even a 733Mhz PowerMac G4 should be able to outrun the iMac 800Mhz quite comfortably.
I'm kinda surprised they aren't doing a version of the imac with a chrome or titanium case..
:)
that would actually have a certain amount of style to it
There's no point having something in 3d just for the sake of having it in 3d..
perhaps this ISN'T the BIG NEWS apple.com has been forcasting.. (if it IS an intentional leak)
/crosses fingers
Where is that 1.6Ghz G5 goddamnit
don't forget about Out-Of-Order read...
the CISC/RISC line has been blurred some some time now, since the P6 (Pentium Pro) and it's decendents are basically RISC excution cores with a cisc translation frontend...
The Tualatin will also work with Serverworks chipsets (Supermicro do a few boards based on them) AND Powerleap sell a convertor that allows Tualatins to run on slot 1 mainboards
ah, but you forget, the PowerPC chips Apple hardware uses generates significantly less heat than any decently performing x86 part..
the only chip to get close to the G4e on a heat/performance basis is the 0.13 micron Tualatin core (IMHO, that's basically conjecture on my part)
Anyone who knows what access time is would disagree with that statement.
me included.
the reason 7200rpm and 10k, and even 15k rpm disks are faster is because the rotational latency is lower, so the heads can be over the correct bit of data sooner.
raid-0 using a pair of 5400rpm disks might give nice sustained read speeds, but I'd be willing to bet it wouldn't be significantly faster than a single top of the line ATA100 disk or an u160 10k or 15k scsi disk. (fyi, 10k disks are edging towards 60MB/s sustained, and ATA100 disks aren't far behind, although their access times are slower)
I've been looking at building a box to sit with the AV hardware, the basic aim is to stuff the fastest gear possible (that runs cool) into a case and then cool it either passively, or with fan(s) that aren't audible over the harddisk..
rough spec:
Tualatin P3 (they run cool enough to not NEED a fan, and a 1.2Ghz Tualatin is many things.. slow isn't on of them)
Seagate BarracudaIV ATA, right on the heels of the fastest IDE disks available, and almost completely silent..
suggestions on quiet/fast video hardware?, I thought about a Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500 with a BIG passive heatsink on it.. but I'm wary of that since my GF2MX with passive cooling gets very toasty...
hmm, perhaps I'm gonna have to suffer some low-flow 80mm fans or something, just to give some semblance of cooling......
Didn't SGI's reality server stay up for 9 and a bit years or so? (and then they took it down)
for the attention of the moderators, that wasn't a troll.
seriously, how will a Dreamcast cope with power being cut whilst the NVRam is being written to?
Put linux on it and it'll be fine until she manages to break it?
maybe.. (how tolerant of being powered off unexpectedly etc is Linux on Dreamcast ?)
indeed..
a PCI card with a crusoe and some motorola 68k code morphing.. and some PPC morphing.. and some x86 morphing.. etc etc would make a FANTASTIC emulation platform tho'
brings to mind the Emplant upgrades for Amiga's..
In theory yes, that's true.
But I wouldn't be surprised if lots of 'built by smalltime operations' machines were delivered with it turned off...
I've been throwing around a plan to construct a case that fits in the footprint of my Hitatchi DVD player..
say.. 7 inches tall, 16 wide/10 deep or so, large enough to fit a decently powerful PC (probably Tualatin 1.2Ghz + ATI 8500 AIW + TV card + something like one of these for sound output, as a hometheater/console replacement/hifi replacement box..
Preferably I'd be able to let it just dissipate heat off passively.. (hence the Tualatin)
using this sort of front panel aesthetic
and since when do Celerons have a 133Mhz FSB? (besides those 1.2Ghz Tualatin cored ones that get 'liberated' from their stock 100Mhz fsb :)
nope, it's due to the HIGH transistor count, 45 million transistors switching generates a lot of heat..
the G4e OTOH, has about 10.5 Million transistors...
And how exactly will that help all the machines that are already setup? and may quite possibly have the automatic patch checking disabled?
In use, from what I've seen (for word processing and suchlike) the Crusoe is about as quick as a Celeron 200Mhz slower
eg, a 700Mhz 5400 is about as quick as a 500Mhz Mendicino
Last year I reviewed a Trek Thumbdrive (64MB) (no link because I no longer speak to the website I was working for at the time :))
My verdict was basically: Nifty, sysadmins might be able to find a use for them... I can't see anyone elsehaving much use for one though.
and as some other people have stated, yes, it's a bitch to plug the things in blind.
now THAT'S an idea
:)
/quickly builds a time machine
/takes a 1.6Ghz Althon with 512MB of ram to 1990, installs DOS (5.5 was the top version in '90 right?)
/gives it to a magazine to review, but doesn't give them any clue to the specifications
muhahahaha
actually, Win2k/XP load balances itself over 2 cpu's quite well...
a better idea would be a switchable 'dual bios' modification..
something like a lot of Amiga users had to switch between Kickstart 1.3 and 2.0 on the A500+
a Geforce 2 GTS is WAAAAAY overkill for 2d stuff...
(I still say a Matrox G550 would be a better choice for a machine doing 2d stuff, and it would be cheaper than the GF2)