Perhaps the Drivebay fans in this case might be of use?:)
Plus you can fit 6 of them:)..
well, five I guess if you want a CD reader/writer or whatever for the host box
How is that a troll exactly?, since when are Gateway machines any more easy to use than any other machine running the EXACT SAME SOFTWARE (ie, Windows XP) ?
How can he "Do the math" on Dual PowerPC 970 systems exactly?, aceshardware tested a Powermac with a pair of PowerPC 7455s in it, that's like testing a dual P3-500 Katmai system and using the results as an extrapolation base for the performance of a dual 2.2Ghz P4 Xeon system...
I'd be using OGG in preference to MP3 right now if my iPod would play them, sadly it doesn't... ah well, apparently there is an integer ogg playback routine now, so maybe it's in the works at Apple..
Yeah, this is true, boardside support for the diode was dodgy when THG did the test, but to state that they began incorporating it because of the THG test is...
"In response to that AMD started putting on die thermal sensors in their CPUs and motherboard manufacturers added C.O.P. (CPU Overheating Protection)."
That's FUD, AMD had released Palomino core Athlons with ondie thermal diodes _BEFORE_ THG ran that test.
Ya know, I don't think I'd ever buy a prebuilt x86 machine (laptops aside), but I don't mind buying a prebuilt machine if it isn't 100% bits I could buy off the shelf (like a Mac, or an SGI box, or a SUN box etc.)
You appear to be forgetting that Doom 3 also has rather intensive physics to handle, I'm not expecting the AI to eat processor power, I _AM_ expecting the physics to do so however.
Putting ram on a PCI card is a bad idea in this day and age, peak PC2700 memory bandwidth is 2.7GB/s, peak 32/33 PCI bandwidth is 132MB... that presents something of a bottleneck:)
Just buy a computer with a sensible number of dimm slots to begin with.
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Pentium 1 level performance from a wristwatch would easily sell for $500 though, like an ubermicro PDA or something..
playing DIVX movies on your wrist watch?.. it'll happen.. eventually!
think "cluster", think of the server farms companies like Google use...
Get a bunch of 4u rackmounts intended to house RAID arrays or suchlike, fill it with these and you've got one hell of a power/space ratio.
Perhaps the Drivebay fans in this case might be of use? :)
Plus you can fit 6 of them :)..
well, five I guess if you want a CD reader/writer or whatever for the host box
the idea is you have one of those, then these things in the drivebays :)
I'm guessing it has a slimline unit similar to those you'd get in a laptop (1/4th or so the height of a normal 5.25" bay) ?
How is that a troll exactly?, since when are Gateway machines any more easy to use than any other machine running the EXACT SAME SOFTWARE (ie, Windows XP) ?
How can he "Do the math" on Dual PowerPC 970 systems exactly?, aceshardware tested a Powermac with a pair of PowerPC 7455s in it, that's like testing a dual P3-500 Katmai system and using the results as an extrapolation base for the performance of a dual 2.2Ghz P4 Xeon system...
In other words, not very useful.
I'd be using OGG in preference to MP3 right now if my iPod would play them, sadly it doesn't... ah well, apparently there is an integer ogg playback routine now, so maybe it's in the works at Apple..
" You must remember that Gateway machines are extremely user-friendly. While I won't deny that they are decent computers,"
I think you have Gateway confused with Apple
"Instead java has not had any major language enchancements in the past 10 years."
Um, Java isn't ten years old yet is it?
I want to know why all non-apple PPC hardware doesn't get a "PowerPC" section?
You do know that a 600Mhz G3 will beat the crap out of any available VIA C3 ? right?
Obviously, the flying cars won't run on electricity....
Yeah, sure they are.. if you consider Alpha Centauri distant....
for gods sake mankind, it's only four lightyears!
Yeah, this is true, boardside support for the diode was dodgy when THG did the test, but to state that they began incorporating it because of the THG test is...
dodgy.
"In response to that AMD started putting on die thermal sensors in their CPUs and motherboard manufacturers added C.O.P. (CPU Overheating Protection)."
That's FUD, AMD had released Palomino core Athlons with ondie thermal diodes _BEFORE_ THG ran that test.
....which you then burn your "self" with.
"Latency would be the same though."
How do you figure that?
Ya know, I don't think I'd ever buy a prebuilt x86 machine (laptops aside), but I don't mind buying a prebuilt machine if it isn't 100% bits I could buy off the shelf (like a Mac, or an SGI box, or a SUN box etc.)
gigaBIT ethernet, not 100BaseT, 1000BaseT :)
125MB/s theoretical maximum.
You appear to be forgetting that Doom 3 also has rather intensive physics to handle, I'm not expecting the AI to eat processor power, I _AM_ expecting the physics to do so however.
In addition, having system ram on the PCI bus will make PCI device performance (sound/IDE etc) suffer quite dramatically.
Putting ram on a PCI card is a bad idea in this day and age, peak PC2700 memory bandwidth is 2.7GB/s, peak 32/33 PCI bandwidth is 132MB... that presents something of a bottleneck :)
Just buy a computer with a sensible number of dimm slots to begin with.
If you think the final thing will run acceptably on a sub ghz P3.. then wtf are you smoking..
it'll be doing a lot LOT LOT more than say.. Unreal 2003, and _that_ struggles unless you throw processor and video horsepower at it..
Try running BF1942, or hell, even Doom 3 on a P3-866 / GF2
There was a _LAG_ between the hardware and the software, but the software is gaining ground in a big way ATM..