First, Prescott was never king of the hill. Well, not unless you consider ridiculous power consumption and heat output as a positive attribute.
And all the hype about 4x4 is really just AMD's attempt to counter Intel's upcoming quad core chips, which will be out in the same timeframe. 4x4's just a fancy name for what you've been able to do with a pair of dual-core Opterons on motherboards with dual graphics slots for quite some time now. The only real difference is that those Opterons have required registered DIMMs, while 4x4 will not.
I really hope you didn't go out and spend a lot of money on a "super fast" "top" motherboard hoping it would be compatible with 4x4. If you did, you might feel mighty silly when you realize that all the motherboards currently on the market that are compatible with Sempron processors don't have enough CPU sockets for 4x4.
Acutally, it doesnt' say that. Seriously, RTFA, with comprehension this time.
Also, upgrading from a single-core Athlon 64 3000+ to a dual-core Core 2 Duo is a huge leap over the move from 2.5 to 2.8GHz. There are plenty of SMP-aware apps that scale quite nicely, and even ATI and Nvidia's graphics drivers are making use of dual-core chips to improve in-game frame rates.
"Some fanboys still stubbornly cling to their favorite underdog, but most enthusiasts have seen the light and are looking at Core 2 for their next upgrade or system build."
Nowhere does it say when that next upgrade or system build has to come, or that anyone needs to upgrade from AMD64.
Nvidia fixed ActiveArmor's data corruption issues a while back. They haven't dropped TCP/IP acceleration from their entire chipset line, either, just the 570 SLI for Intel. The 590 SLI, 570 SLI for AMD, nForce4 SLI X16 for AMD and Intel, and others still support hardware GigE acceleration.
What makes the PowerMac G5 a desktop system? The PCI-X slots? Seriously, there were Opteron systems available with very similar configurations (hard drives, graphics, motherboard features, etc...) to the G5 systems before they were released.
I've yet to see anyone come up with a compelling reason why the G5 is a desktop but a similarly-configured Opteron system is a workstation.
In this review: http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/aiw-personalc inema/index.x?pg=1 , which also features the NVIDIA Personal Cinema FX 5700.
Sorry, no disk utilization, though.
Did you even read the comparison? Do you understand that testing different core logic chipsets requires using different motherboards? Do you.... wait, I'm probably just wasting my time on a Troll.
I see a lot of posts on the fact that the 6800 Ultra requires a 480W power supply. However, if you read Tech Report's review, you'll notice that the card's actual power consumption isn't much more than the previous generation of cards. In fact, its idle power consumption is actually lower than the 9800 XT.
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A much more in-depth review is available at The Tech Report: http://techreport.com/articles.x/13224
The Tech Report also has coverage, with full application and peripheral performance testing: http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/intel-p35/ind ex.x?pg=1
Over at Tech Report
And all the hype about 4x4 is really just AMD's attempt to counter Intel's upcoming quad core chips, which will be out in the same timeframe. 4x4's just a fancy name for what you've been able to do with a pair of dual-core Opterons on motherboards with dual graphics slots for quite some time now. The only real difference is that those Opterons have required registered DIMMs, while 4x4 will not.
I really hope you didn't go out and spend a lot of money on a "super fast" "top" motherboard hoping it would be compatible with 4x4. If you did, you might feel mighty silly when you realize that all the motherboards currently on the market that are compatible with Sempron processors don't have enough CPU sockets for 4x4.
All Intel Core 2 Duo processors are 64-bit.
Acutally, it doesnt' say that. Seriously, RTFA, with comprehension this time.
Also, upgrading from a single-core Athlon 64 3000+ to a dual-core Core 2 Duo is a huge leap over the move from 2.5 to 2.8GHz. There are plenty of SMP-aware apps that scale quite nicely, and even ATI and Nvidia's graphics drivers are making use of dual-core chips to improve in-game frame rates.
Two of the chipsets tested support SLI, the nForce 570 SLI and the nForce4 SLI X16. http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/core2-chipset s/index.x?pg=10
Your precious P5N32-SLI SE is even tested in the article! So what was your problem again?
Socket AM2 chipset comparison here: http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/am2-chipsets/ index.x?pg=1
"Some fanboys still stubbornly cling to their favorite underdog, but most enthusiasts have seen the light and are looking at Core 2 for their next upgrade or system build." Nowhere does it say when that next upgrade or system build has to come, or that anyone needs to upgrade from AMD64.
Nvidia fixed ActiveArmor's data corruption issues a while back. They haven't dropped TCP/IP acceleration from their entire chipset line, either, just the 570 SLI for Intel. The 590 SLI, 570 SLI for AMD, nForce4 SLI X16 for AMD and Intel, and others still support hardware GigE acceleration.
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10091
Also reviewed at The Tech Report, with more extensive testing against a wider range of processors.
TR also has additional details on the architecture itself.
I dunno, all those iMac colors were a little gay. Ditto for the pastels with the iPod Mini.
The Tech Report has a more thorough review of the chipset, complete with independent benchmarks.
What makes the PowerMac G5 a desktop system? The PCI-X slots? Seriously, there were Opteron systems available with very similar configurations (hard drives, graphics, motherboard features, etc...) to the G5 systems before they were released. I've yet to see anyone come up with a compelling reason why the G5 is a desktop but a similarly-configured Opteron system is a workstation.
In this review: http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/aiw-personalc inema/index.x?pg=1 , which also features the NVIDIA Personal Cinema FX 5700.
Sorry, no disk utilization, though.
Did you even read the comparison? Do you understand that testing different core logic chipsets requires using different motherboards? Do you.... wait, I'm probably just wasting my time on a Troll.
Ahh the joy of Slashdot. 5, Informative for a post that doesn't understand that PCI Express is a replacement for PCI, PCI-X, and AGP.
I see a lot of posts on the fact that the 6800 Ultra requires a 480W power supply. However, if you read Tech Report's review, you'll notice that the card's actual power consumption isn't much more than the previous generation of cards. In fact, its idle power consumption is actually lower than the 9800 XT.
Tech Report's review tests the FX-53 against a total of sixteen other chips. Good reading if you've got a benchmark fetish, too.
Tech Report compares the SilenX with four of its competitors here.
I'll bet that less than 1% of Slashdot readers has actually been out to a club in the last year.