HSA means maybe some limited parts of some applications will be sped up, in an indeterminate future, if code has been specifically written for it and if the linux support is good enough. And it is only for A10 7850, 7700 and 7600, the latter of which isn't available. And distros need to ship code that runs on every CPU.
And yet "green diesel" or biodiesel is cheaper still, requires releasing no sequestered carbon, and can be made from algae grown on saltwater.
And unicorns. Go launch your algae farms and become a trillionnaire, please. Made with refurbished parts transported by bicycle, ox cart and wooden sail ship. With algae that feed themselves out of thin air.
I was thinking a 15 euro heatsink will do on an Intel, and a 30 euro one on AMD.
Cheapest motherboards are those around 45 euros or less. Putting a 125 watt FX on that is a very bad idea. The electric load is too big and the CPU may be throttled down. In contrast an Intel mobo will run i5/i7 fine. I agree that low end mobos have great stability otherwise, they have high volume and production is reliable.
Power use is insignificant if you don't pay for it or shut down/stand by the PC often. Else over the course of three years the AMD system may well cost more.
Bicyclesion are relatively recent, they're products of the 2nd industrial revolution which gave us cars as well. So I would say european cities were designed for walking and animal transportation ; that they are good for biking is an accident. There's plenty surbubia too, which ate villages and farm land around the cities.
The extreme platform as you call it has had relatively affordable quad cores (i7 3830, i7 4820K) and I guess there will be a similar quad core Haswell-E for sale. You can go that way if you want a workstation with crap tons of RAM, I/O and PCIe slots.
Steamroller (used only in Kaveri) now uses two decoders, as long with the assorted little changes (a good review on a decent tech site will explain it)
No, they're well ahead of AMD in this regard. AMD's 8 "core" CPUs are actually 4 core CPUs that can process 2 integer instructions at the same time on one core. Much like Intel's current i7s are 4 core CPUs that can process an integer and a floating point instruction at the same time on one core. Basically, AMD is marketing hyper threading as being more cores.
What you describe is superscalar execution, and was the point of the original Pentium. That's Instruction-Level Parallelism not Thread-Level Parallelism. Also the Pentium Pro/Pentium 2 had three FPUs.
It's lame that this comment is modded insightful, you're making shit up.
Fun story, AMD supports 16GB unregistered DDR3 DIMMs, but Intel CPUs don't, except the 8-core Atom and presumably Broadwell. If those 16GB DIMMs ever get affordable and readily available, it would probably be in 2015 when there are Broadwell desktops/laptops around.
A point that I read somewhere is that even though they're multithreaded, they largely have "the rendering thread", "the audio thread", "the physics thread" etc. Few games are really well multi-threaded. On the other hand this puts a tab on run-away CPU requirements.
Games are often CPU bound or rather have some significant CPU requiremets, it's just that new graphics cards are always benched on fast CPUs and the "gamers" tend to keep their hardware up to date. If you put a good graphics card on an old, unspectacular CPU your games may run like crap.
A dual core solves that already. That allows your most CPU hungry process to use 100% of one core (when it does) while your 244 other processes use about 10 to 20% of the other core.
Other features that weren't in Netscape 2 or old Firefox : - restoring tabs/windows after a crash - ability to open closed tabs again - tabs that spawn on the right of current tab. it used to piss me off but I find it better now and FF has it elegantly done - you can select a link represented in raw text form, right-click and open it
Parallela looks great if you're a computer science student who wants to study supercomputers and many-core (Xeon Phi -like ) architectures, else I don'see the point to it. If you want a fast and small computer with limited connectivity and storage options why not look at an Intel NUC with Atom. ARM stuff will be better when it catches up to that.
This is I was going to write. I don't know if the new UI changes that stuff, but the Firefox is very powerful. I appreciate that I can add or remove buttons and put them anywhere (lately, zooming buttons have got even more useful). I even get to have a menu bar, which gives instant access to stuff.
Google doesnt care about making bookmarks, history etc. easily accessible, they'd rather have you spend your time using Google products. i.e. they let me click a yellow star, or open the last closed tab (only the last one), that's not the same thing as having all handy plus the possibility of arbitrary extension.
Killing -9 is not nice, I suggest you install a "restart firefox" extension like I used to have. Or may be you do that too for getting the start up dialog that allows to clear the junk by unticking tabs.. Sucks that Firefox doesn't allow that without force killing it!, and there's no command line argument for that. There's probably an extension but it should be part of the default software. Or I need a "Crash" menu item.
"3D hardware acceleration" on linux may mean any of slowness, glitches, instability, overheating, high CPU usage. e.g. folks with a Radeon 4000 series graphics card encounter problems with the 3D accelerated desktops (Gnome 3, Cinnamon). Or I don't really want my 8 year old GPU to be constantly used.
So, maybe hardware acceleration can be of use for some people. I don't care about it much but it might be useful.. But given the problems with drivers and old hardware (and possible lack of any GPU power management on a lot of machines) it would be best disabled by default I think.
Then use dillo. I would use it much more often if it could open tabs in background and the tab bar was less thin, but it works. (within those limits. can't log in to a particular forum which is mostly "web 1.0")
That happens to me every time my face is half covered in blood and I pick up a rocket launcher.
This tech should be used to make a nice car HUD. HUD needs a doom guy's face in the middle of it, of course! The way he constantly snoops on the left and right would entice the driver to pay about his surroundings. Funny stuff like the pissed off face (has left and right looking variants) with hurt groan would happen when you have bumps on the road and mild collisions, and two nice screams are built-in that can be played for driver death.
Even in the US you will eventually end up on Social Security or Medicaid once you're a destitute cripple. Um.. whatever country you are from, I guess you're insured because it was mandated by law, hahaha.
Probably because these techs are cheaper and there were no previous infrastructure. Also your internet connection would maybe be worse if everyone in your suburbia tore apart the copper stuff and switched to 4G, the spectrum would get all used up and you would bitch about why don't you have some form of wired internet access.
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HSA means maybe some limited parts of some applications will be sped up, in an indeterminate future, if code has been specifically written for it and if the linux support is good enough. And it is only for A10 7850, 7700 and 7600, the latter of which isn't available. And distros need to ship code that runs on every CPU.
AMD's use of Hypertransport makes it a bit easier to create fast low latency interconnects, needed for high performance clusters or supercomputers.
You brought up the 6MB vs 8MB comparison.
And yet "green diesel" or biodiesel is cheaper still, requires releasing no sequestered carbon, and can be made from algae grown on saltwater.
And unicorns.
Go launch your algae farms and become a trillionnaire, please.
Made with refurbished parts transported by bicycle, ox cart and wooden sail ship. With algae that feed themselves out of thin air.
I was thinking a 15 euro heatsink will do on an Intel, and a 30 euro one on AMD.
Cheapest motherboards are those around 45 euros or less. Putting a 125 watt FX on that is a very bad idea. The electric load is too big and the CPU may be throttled down. In contrast an Intel mobo will run i5/i7 fine. I agree that low end mobos have great stability otherwise, they have high volume and production is reliable.
Power use is insignificant if you don't pay for it or shut down/stand by the PC often. Else over the course of three years the AMD system may well cost more.
Bicyclesion are relatively recent, they're products of the 2nd industrial revolution which gave us cars as well.
So I would say european cities were designed for walking and animal transportation ; that they are good for biking is an accident. There's plenty surbubia too, which ate villages and farm land around the cities.
The extreme platform as you call it has had relatively affordable quad cores (i7 3830, i7 4820K) and I guess there will be a similar quad core Haswell-E for sale.
You can go that way if you want a workstation with crap tons of RAM, I/O and PCIe slots.
Steamroller (used only in Kaveri) now uses two decoders, as long with the assorted little changes (a good review on a decent tech site will explain it)
No, they're well ahead of AMD in this regard. AMD's 8 "core" CPUs are actually 4 core CPUs that can process 2 integer instructions at the same time on one core. Much like Intel's current i7s are 4 core CPUs that can process an integer and a floating point instruction at the same time on one core. Basically, AMD is marketing hyper threading as being more cores.
What you describe is superscalar execution, and was the point of the original Pentium. That's Instruction-Level Parallelism not Thread-Level Parallelism. Also the Pentium Pro/Pentium 2 had three FPUs.
It's lame that this comment is modded insightful, you're making shit up.
6 MB L3 plus 128 MB of L4 gets you a faster CPU than 8 MB of L3 alone, actually.
Fun story, AMD supports 16GB unregistered DDR3 DIMMs, but Intel CPUs don't, except the 8-core Atom and presumably Broadwell. If those 16GB DIMMs ever get affordable and readily available, it would probably be in 2015 when there are Broadwell desktops/laptops around.
But with AMD you have a higher power bill, need to buy a bigger heatsink, stay clear from lowest end motherboards. It ain't exactly cheaper.
A point that I read somewhere is that even though they're multithreaded, they largely have "the rendering thread", "the audio thread", "the physics thread" etc.
Few games are really well multi-threaded. On the other hand this puts a tab on run-away CPU requirements.
Games are often CPU bound or rather have some significant CPU requiremets, it's just that new graphics cards are always benched on fast CPUs and the "gamers" tend to keep their hardware up to date. If you put a good graphics card on an old, unspectacular CPU your games may run like crap.
A dual core solves that already. That allows your most CPU hungry process to use 100% of one core (when it does) while your 244 other processes use about 10 to 20% of the other core.
Other features that weren't in Netscape 2 or old Firefox :
- restoring tabs/windows after a crash
- ability to open closed tabs again
- tabs that spawn on the right of current tab. it used to piss me off but I find it better now and FF has it elegantly done
- you can select a link represented in raw text form, right-click and open it
Parallela looks great if you're a computer science student who wants to study supercomputers and many-core (Xeon Phi -like ) architectures, else I don'see the point to it. If you want a fast and small computer with limited connectivity and storage options why not look at an Intel NUC with Atom. ARM stuff will be better when it catches up to that.
This is I was going to write. I don't know if the new UI changes that stuff, but the Firefox is very powerful. I appreciate that I can add or remove buttons and put them anywhere (lately, zooming buttons have got even more useful). I even get to have a menu bar, which gives instant access to stuff.
Google doesnt care about making bookmarks, history etc. easily accessible, they'd rather have you spend your time using Google products. i.e. they let me click a yellow star, or open the last closed tab (only the last one), that's not the same thing as having all handy plus the possibility of arbitrary extension.
Killing -9 is not nice, I suggest you install a "restart firefox" extension like I used to have.
Or may be you do that too for getting the start up dialog that allows to clear the junk by unticking tabs.. Sucks that Firefox doesn't allow that without force killing it!, and there's no command line argument for that. There's probably an extension but it should be part of the default software. Or I need a "Crash" menu item.
"3D hardware acceleration" on linux may mean any of slowness, glitches, instability, overheating, high CPU usage. e.g. folks with a Radeon 4000 series graphics card encounter problems with the 3D accelerated desktops (Gnome 3, Cinnamon). Or I don't really want my 8 year old GPU to be constantly used.
So, maybe hardware acceleration can be of use for some people. I don't care about it much but it might be useful.. But given the problems with drivers and old hardware (and possible lack of any GPU power management on a lot of machines) it would be best disabled by default I think.
Opening tons of basic html pages in a modern browser doesn't use too many resources.
Then use dillo.
I would use it much more often if it could open tabs in background and the tab bar was less thin, but it works. (within those limits. can't log in to a particular forum which is mostly "web 1.0")
That happens to me every time my face is half covered in blood and I pick up a rocket launcher.
This tech should be used to make a nice car HUD. HUD needs a doom guy's face in the middle of it, of course! The way he constantly snoops on the left and right would entice the driver to pay about his surroundings. Funny stuff like the pissed off face (has left and right looking variants) with hurt groan would happen when you have bumps on the road and mild collisions, and two nice screams are built-in that can be played for driver death.
Even in the US you will eventually end up on Social Security or Medicaid once you're a destitute cripple.
Um.. whatever country you are from, I guess you're insured because it was mandated by law, hahaha.
Probably because these techs are cheaper and there were no previous infrastructure.
Also your internet connection would maybe be worse if everyone in your suburbia tore apart the copper stuff and switched to 4G, the spectrum would get all used up and you would bitch about why don't you have some form of wired internet access.