I know two people who have bought Barton AXP 2500+s and overclocked them to 3200+s easy. So you buy a $100 CPU + $50 in cooling, and get a $350 CPU out of it. Sweet deal if you ask me.
Um... no. I describe myself as a Slashdot addict. Yes, I like Slashdot a lot, and yes I visit Slashdot a lot, but it is having severe consequences with regard to my grades. I describe myself as an addict because it is having harmful effects, and because through my own will I have been unable to break my habit. It's not that I don't want to - it's that I can't. Everytime I have tried stopping, I've always come rushing back after a day or two because I almost went mad from not knowing what's going on in the world.
And don't say "subscribe and get it in your email". With Slashdot's track record for accuracy (or lack thereof), you absolutely must read the comments to get the straight dope.
Never heard of any of those, but I think the government needs to hurry up and do something about dihydrogen monoxide. Thousands of people die annually due to DHMO overdosing, and yet nobody seems to care. It's a shame, really.
People don't have to take responsibility for their actions anymore. Parents don't punish children they give them time-outs (hey folks, it doesn't work).
Nor do they teach their kids to respect other human beings, because we are all made in the image of God.
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I dunno, maybe you should file a bug for it or something? Just bitching about it on Slashdot won't get you anywhere.
Can it handle MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile features, such as Q-PEL and GMC? Can it play Vorbis audio? Can it/is there any chance it will ever play movies in Matroska containers?
My general rule is take the amount of time I think a project will take and multiply it by 2.5. It works pretty well. Most of the time, I'm only slightly late.;)
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition - XeonMP yields are damn good, it seems!
Intel Developer Forum Cache for questions
By Nebojsa Novakovic: Tuesday 16 September 2003, 18:14 WHEN, AT today's IDF opening, Louis Burns demonstrated a high-definition video stream running on a "mystery" desktop processor, everyone must hve thought it was the upcoming Prescott part. Wrong! It was the (also upcoming), previously unheard of, even at The Inq, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor Extreme Edition 3.20 GHz , with an extra 2 Megabytes. In Intel's own words, "this new processor will be targeted at high-end gamers and computing power users."
As a matter of fact, 2MB cache will help a lot those users whose apps (including games and such) have a lot of big cache-friendly pieces of code and data, but probably not the data-streaming intensive stuff. I do expect to see speedups anywhere from 2% to 20% depending on the application, maybe some more if using multithreading/multitasking (large cache can keep in code / date pieces from more threads).
However, this doesn't seem to be a new CPU in reality - after all, Intel is doing very well with its XeonMP 2.8 GHz 2 MB cache CPU, and how much effort does it really take to repackage it for the 3.2 GHz / 800 FSB desktop with less stringent thermal and reliability requirements than the big iron, anyway?
Intel would gain a lot with this move. If, touch wood, there are problems with Prescott, a large-cache Pentium4 part will provide some buffer against large-cache Athlon64 (i.e. rebadged Opteron) parts. At the same time, enormous extra benefits from the economies of scale would further reduce the identical die XeonMP manufacturing cost, helping Intel compete better on the quad-CPU server front as well. Interesting move? I think so. Let's see how the beast performs in real!
Why? I hate product activation - it never works and users are always frustrated.
Sorry to say this, but it does, at least with Windows XP. Most of the time, the auto-activate feature works fine on the first try, and if you do have to call Microsoft, they are quite reasonable.
I find it rather interesting that nobody has yet mentioned litePC and their EOS product - they got Windows ME down to less than 32MB _with_ Internet Explorer. They also make 98lite, which lets you easily install stripped down, but fully functional builds of Win98 and ME. I hear ME is actually pretty good after "liteing" it. XPlite is still in progress.
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I know two people who have bought Barton AXP 2500+s and overclocked them to 3200+s easy. So you buy a $100 CPU + $50 in cooling, and get a $350 CPU out of it. Sweet deal if you ask me.
Um... no. I describe myself as a Slashdot addict. Yes, I like Slashdot a lot, and yes I visit Slashdot a lot, but it is having severe consequences with regard to my grades. I describe myself as an addict because it is having harmful effects, and because through my own will I have been unable to break my habit. It's not that I don't want to - it's that I can't. Everytime I have tried stopping, I've always come rushing back after a day or two because I almost went mad from not knowing what's going on in the world.
And don't say "subscribe and get it in your email". With Slashdot's track record for accuracy (or lack thereof), you absolutely must read the comments to get the straight dope.
The sad thing is, if we were to share our abundance with third-world countries instead of hogging it all, we wouldn't have a problem.
Never heard of any of those, but I think the government needs to hurry up and do something about dihydrogen monoxide. Thousands of people die annually due to DHMO overdosing, and yet nobody seems to care. It's a shame, really.
Firebird + Proxomitron is even lovlier. :D I rarely see ads at all now.
Everything, only most people refuse to even entertain the idea.
People don't have to take responsibility for their actions anymore. Parents don't punish children they give them time-outs (hey folks, it doesn't work).
Nor do they teach their kids to respect other human beings, because we are all made in the image of God.
I dunno, maybe you should file a bug for it or something? Just bitching about it on Slashdot won't get you anywhere.
RealVideo 9 is actually a pretty kick-ass codec. Take a gander at the doom9.org forums.
Can it handle MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile features, such as Q-PEL and GMC? Can it play Vorbis audio? Can it/is there any chance it will ever play movies in Matroska containers?
My general rule is take the amount of time I think a project will take and multiply it by 2.5. It works pretty well. Most of the time, I'm only slightly late. ;)
I live in Texas, you insensitive clod!
Really? Where is that option?
The best is QuickTime Alternative, made by the Kazaa Lite guys. Get it here.
2 megs of pron, eh? I want it! ;D
Anyways, here's the _real_ text:
Pentium 4 Extreme Edition - XeonMP yields are damn good, it seems!
Intel Developer Forum Cache for questions
By Nebojsa Novakovic: Tuesday 16 September 2003, 18:14
WHEN, AT today's IDF opening, Louis Burns demonstrated a high-definition video stream running on a "mystery" desktop processor, everyone must hve thought it was the upcoming Prescott part. Wrong! It was the (also upcoming), previously unheard of, even at The Inq, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor Extreme Edition 3.20 GHz , with an extra 2 Megabytes. In Intel's own words, "this new processor will be targeted at high-end gamers and computing power users."
As a matter of fact, 2MB cache will help a lot those users whose apps (including games and such) have a lot of big cache-friendly pieces of code and data, but probably not the data-streaming intensive stuff. I do expect to see speedups anywhere from 2% to 20% depending on the application, maybe some more if using multithreading/multitasking (large cache can keep in code / date pieces from more threads).
However, this doesn't seem to be a new CPU in reality - after all, Intel is doing very well with its XeonMP 2.8 GHz 2 MB cache CPU, and how much effort does it really take to repackage it for the 3.2 GHz / 800 FSB desktop with less stringent thermal and reliability requirements than the big iron, anyway?
Intel would gain a lot with this move. If, touch wood, there are problems with Prescott, a large-cache Pentium4 part will provide some buffer against large-cache Athlon64 (i.e. rebadged Opteron) parts. At the same time, enormous extra benefits from the economies of scale would further reduce the identical die XeonMP manufacturing cost, helping Intel compete better on the quad-CPU server front as well. Interesting move? I think so. Let's see how the beast performs in real!
Try MPEG-4 encoding. With all the XviD settings at max, I get ~4 FPS on my Athlon XP 2400+ when transcoding DVDs at full 16:9 resolution.
Man, I can't wait for the G11!
By the way, 19 September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. ;D
Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19
1: being irresonsible and leaving unlocked weapons around.
2: not teaching the kids gun safety
3: not knowing what the kids were up to
What about
4. Not teaching their kids that killing people is a sin
?
If you aren't sure whether or not that album you've been looking at is affiliated with the RIAA or not, RIAA Radar is your friend.
Why? I hate product activation - it never works and users are always frustrated.
Sorry to say this, but it does, at least with Windows XP. Most of the time, the auto-activate feature works fine on the first try, and if you do have to call Microsoft, they are quite reasonable.
I usually bring a few Knoppix CDs when I go to my local Sam's Club. Wait till no employees are around, throw them in the CD drives, and reboot.
:P
I've never bothered a tech about it before, though.
Next challenge for them, WinXP under 1 gig
:D
OK, here ya go. A detailed guide.
TechSpot OpenBoards - Cutting the fat - XP installs under 700mb
I find it rather interesting that nobody has yet mentioned litePC and their EOS product - they got Windows ME down to less than 32MB _with_ Internet Explorer. They also make 98lite, which lets you easily install stripped down, but fully functional builds of Win98 and ME. I hear ME is actually pretty good after "liteing" it. XPlite is still in progress.
Is a Microsoft flavor of Linux coming?
It sure is. It's scheduled to be out in November:
Microsoft Linux - the premier linux distro