Yes but ask any serious coder x86 is seriously flawed, and needs to be replaced. It is dependant on decoders decoders take up huge ammounts of logic to feed current processors.
The K7 core in its current design is dead, seen any promising hammer benches and we are 2 months from launch? Doesnt spur my faith yours? If this chip is so killer where is the beef? AMD has so far only confirmed 1400Mhz parts for the best yeilds and they are hand selected cores in demo machines.
Plus hammer, can only address 48 bits anyways(the server chip) and the desktop chip is still limited to 4GB oh the sever chip will be $1000+ too.
Plus Windows home edition only support 2GB and pro 4GB, you have to buy a $500 server OS to address more that 4GB. plus windows advanced 2K3 server or whatever doesnt support hammer.
No Final OS support closest is linux and its still very beta, whats the point? until sortware comes out with support and the prices comes down.
Who care what Intel is worth.
64 bit is hype, minus the addressing space (48bit adressing allows 256,000 GBs), other than that its bogus. x86 is so flawed and so inefficent its dead ended without huge chips 1/3 of logic on chips is decoders to enable multi threads 2, 3 4 time more decoders will be needed hence huge chips. Itanic needs no decoders hence is a pan in the ass to writ for but the pay off is endless.
Hammer is bogus is adds 2 stages to the pipe and 2% die space for 64 bit addressing, hence why it hasnt been released, the AXP core had to be rework 3 times in 2 years to hit the 300+ rating and its maxed its IPC, and Mhz the K7 core is DEAD.
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Yes but ask any serious coder x86 is seriously flawed, and needs to be replaced. It is dependant on decoders decoders take up huge ammounts of logic to feed current processors. The K7 core in its current design is dead, seen any promising hammer benches and we are 2 months from launch? Doesnt spur my faith yours? If this chip is so killer where is the beef? AMD has so far only confirmed 1400Mhz parts for the best yeilds and they are hand selected cores in demo machines. Plus hammer, can only address 48 bits anyways(the server chip) and the desktop chip is still limited to 4GB oh the sever chip will be $1000+ too. Plus Windows home edition only support 2GB and pro 4GB, you have to buy a $500 server OS to address more that 4GB. plus windows advanced 2K3 server or whatever doesnt support hammer. No Final OS support closest is linux and its still very beta, whats the point? until sortware comes out with support and the prices comes down.
Who care what Intel is worth. 64 bit is hype, minus the addressing space (48bit adressing allows 256,000 GBs), other than that its bogus. x86 is so flawed and so inefficent its dead ended without huge chips 1/3 of logic on chips is decoders to enable multi threads 2, 3 4 time more decoders will be needed hence huge chips. Itanic needs no decoders hence is a pan in the ass to writ for but the pay off is endless. Hammer is bogus is adds 2 stages to the pipe and 2% die space for 64 bit addressing, hence why it hasnt been released, the AXP core had to be rework 3 times in 2 years to hit the 300+ rating and its maxed its IPC, and Mhz the K7 core is DEAD.