Again I hear on/. that old chestnut, 'America produces 30% of the world's output'. 30% in monetary output is possible, but even then that figure us dubious to say the least. Even if it was correct a great deal of that would include service industries, which would make America's inefficiency even more evident.
While 4.6 GHz sounds impressive, I thought we were getting away from the notion that clock speed = performance. The Pentium 4 killed off clock speed comparisons.
I must admit the specs are impressive, but show me the benchmarks!
The jokes about the heat these puppies will pump out couldn't be more appropriate. An article at Tom's states that the Smithfield core has a thermal design power of 130W making it by far the hottest x86 CPU ever seen.
In contrast, AMD's dual core offering will offer no increase in TDP over their present single core designs.
Q3 has the finest netcode of any game I've played. Granted it's more friendly towards broadband connections, but it's the only game you can confidently snipe with the railgun at a moving target two pixels wide at the other end of the map.
As for UTxxxx's netcode, all I can say is that it's very suspect at times which is a shame as they are all good games, even the best players moan about the netcode and how they missed what they thought was a sure shot.
Another good reason for not using Oracle is because it sucks. We've found recent releases of their software to be buggy and a headache to install and configure.
...and that's despite having a crappy low end ATI Radeon
For those of us unfortunate enought to have a 9500 or greater, using DRI is not an option, we have to use ATI's pitful excuse for a driver. My 9600 Pro gets slaughtered by a GF4MX in glxgears , yes I know glxgears is not much of a bench but still..
We're also still waiting for official Xorg support. This was promised by mid-December but that's now been put back until mid-January.
Always buy the same brand and model of screen that you have an abundance of in your workplace. If your sceen turns out to be faulty then you have an instant swap-out with no questions asked (security aside).
Same goes for any hardware you might be thinking of getting, make sure it's 'in stock' with your employer first.
The news here is that IBM and AMD have perfected strained silicon with their Silicon on Insulator (SOI) process, an achievment that should lead to even better results than just strained bulk silicon.
..I'd head down the nearest casino and hit the blackjack tables. Those with exceptional memories can earn much more than those who use the simpler hi/lo card counting technique.
The difference between AGP cards running at 2x and 4x is small. The difference between 4x and 8x is practically non-existant. So I seriously doubt that extra PCIe bandwidth would increase performance. Also note that SLI'd cards talk to each other via the SLI cable.
No, because stating that CmdrTaco sucks is an opinion and the law protects your right to make your opinions. If however you said that Mr Malda is the Goatse man and eats live kittens for breakfast and those statements are implied as fact, and you would indeed be guilty of libel.
x86 has come a long way over the years. We now have a multitude of streaming SIMD instructions and the biggest complaint of x86, the lack of GPRs, has been remedied by AMD in x86-64. It's cheap, relatively easy to code for and is not going away any time soon.
And you say x86 is power hungry? What does that make Itanic?
.. and that's a company called Creative Labs and their patent portfolio.
Aureal, Nvidia and most recently id software are all firms that have fallen foul of Creative's desire to stifle innovation. Until someone challenges these patents, we will see few developments in PC audio which has stood still for many years.
The key thing with peltiers is that they just *move* heat.
Which is exactly what your domestic refrigerator does, merely moves heat from the inside via the evaporator to the outside to the condenser. In fact heat cannot be destroyed at all (think conversation of energy), merely moved elsewhere.
On the contrary I think I was a little conservative. The latest Intel roadmaps show that we will see the dual-core Xeon out in Q1'06 while AMD's dual core solution is slated for mid 2005. You must consider that Intel's dual core plans were only recently conceived after they realised that they've hit the MHz ceiling. AMD's 64 bit chips were designed with dual-core in mind from the start.
However, never underestimate Intel. They have resources, especially in R&D, that AMD could only dream about. It's still possible that AMD screw up and hand the initiative back to their much larger competitor but I still think that as far as performance goes, 2005 will belong to AMD.
AnandTech and Tom's Hardware are so AMD-biased, I don't even bother reading them any more, especialy when it's related to the latest AMD or Intel chips.
Oh please, without any evidence or even anecdotes to back this up you're just making yourself sound like yet another disgruntled fanboy when reviews aren't going your way.
Almost all hardware sites agree that at the present, not only are AMD's chips providing the best performance, they also provide the most bang for the buck. That now even goes for media encoding, an area previously dominated by Intel. Who knows, no doubt the see-saw will swing back in Intel's favour in the future, but now it's clear that AMD will hold the lead throughout 2005.
The Socket 754 Sempron has very little in common with the Athlon XP. Two notable differences are the on-die memory controller and the no-excecute (nx) protection from buffer overflows.
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What do you mean by 'less of them'?. Most records I've seen have just 2 grooves :)
Again I hear on /. that old chestnut, 'America produces 30% of the world's output'. 30% in monetary output is possible, but even then that figure us dubious to say the least. Even if it was correct a great deal of that would include service industries, which would make America's inefficiency even more evident.
While 4.6 GHz sounds impressive, I thought we were getting away from the notion that clock speed = performance. The Pentium 4 killed off clock speed comparisons.
I must admit the specs are impressive, but show me the benchmarks!
The jokes about the heat these puppies will pump out couldn't be more appropriate. An article at Tom's states that the Smithfield core has a thermal design power of 130W making it by far the hottest x86 CPU ever seen.
In contrast, AMD's dual core offering will offer no increase in TDP over their present single core designs.
'You've got male!'
Q3 has the finest netcode of any game I've played. Granted it's more friendly towards broadband connections, but it's the only game you can confidently snipe with the railgun at a moving target two pixels wide at the other end of the map.
As for UTxxxx's netcode, all I can say is that it's very suspect at times which is a shame as they are all good games, even the best players moan about the netcode and how they missed what they thought was a sure shot.
Another good reason for not using Oracle is because it sucks. We've found recent releases of their software to be buggy and a headache to install and configure.
...and that's despite having a crappy low end ATI Radeon
For those of us unfortunate enought to have a 9500 or greater, using DRI is not an option, we have to use ATI's pitful excuse for a driver. My 9600 Pro gets slaughtered by a GF4MX in glxgears , yes I know glxgears is not much of a bench but still..
We're also still waiting for official Xorg support. This was promised by mid-December but that's now been put back until mid-January.
Always buy the same brand and model of screen that you have an abundance of in your workplace. If your sceen turns out to be faulty then you have an instant swap-out with no questions asked (security aside).
Same goes for any hardware you might be thinking of getting, make sure it's 'in stock' with your employer first.
I appreciate the humour but theft is defined as depriving someone of their property, so how does one 'steal' email addresses?
I'd keep expecting to be jumped by monsters at random intervals during the performance.
The news here is that IBM and AMD have perfected strained silicon with their Silicon on Insulator (SOI) process, an achievment that should lead to even better results than just strained bulk silicon.
Not too sure but you can guarantee that the French space traffic controllers will be the first to go on strike.
You're a very brave man to admit on Slashdot that you have the urge to torment penguins.
..I'd head down the nearest casino and hit the blackjack tables. Those with exceptional memories can earn much more than those who use the simpler hi/lo card counting technique.
The difference between AGP cards running at 2x and 4x is small. The difference between 4x and 8x is practically non-existant. So I seriously doubt that extra PCIe bandwidth would increase performance. Also note that SLI'd cards talk to each other via the SLI cable.
No, because stating that CmdrTaco sucks is an opinion and the law protects your right to make your opinions. If however you said that Mr Malda is the Goatse man and eats live kittens for breakfast and those statements are implied as fact, and you would indeed be guilty of libel.
:)
Unless of course you know something we don't
You must live with a woman. Your geek license is revoked with immediate effect.
Change the record.
x86 has come a long way over the years. We now have a multitude of streaming SIMD instructions and the biggest complaint of x86, the lack of GPRs, has been remedied by AMD in x86-64. It's cheap, relatively easy to code for and is not going away any time soon.
And you say x86 is power hungry? What does that make Itanic?
.. and that's a company called Creative Labs and their patent portfolio.
Aureal, Nvidia and most recently id software are all firms that have fallen foul of Creative's desire to stifle innovation. Until someone challenges these patents, we will see few developments in PC audio which has stood still for many years.
Programming has little to do with analysis and a lot to do with gut feelings when you code
Tell me, what's it like working at Microsoft?
The key thing with peltiers is that they just *move* heat.
Which is exactly what your domestic refrigerator does, merely moves heat from the inside via the evaporator to the outside to the condenser. In fact heat cannot be destroyed at all (think conversation of energy), merely moved elsewhere.
On the contrary I think I was a little conservative. The latest Intel roadmaps show that we will see the dual-core Xeon out in Q1'06 while AMD's dual core solution is slated for mid 2005. You must consider that Intel's dual core plans were only recently conceived after they realised that they've hit the MHz ceiling. AMD's 64 bit chips were designed with dual-core in mind from the start.
However, never underestimate Intel. They have resources, especially in R&D, that AMD could only dream about. It's still possible that AMD screw up and hand the initiative back to their much larger competitor but I still think that as far as performance goes, 2005 will belong to AMD.
AnandTech and Tom's Hardware are so AMD-biased, I don't even bother reading them any more, especialy when it's related to the latest AMD or Intel chips.
Oh please, without any evidence or even anecdotes to back this up you're just making yourself sound like yet another disgruntled fanboy when reviews aren't going your way.
Almost all hardware sites agree that at the present, not only are AMD's chips providing the best performance, they also provide the most bang for the buck. That now even goes for media encoding, an area previously dominated by Intel. Who knows, no doubt the see-saw will swing back in Intel's favour in the future, but now it's clear that AMD will hold the lead throughout 2005.
The Socket 754 Sempron has very little in common with the Athlon XP. Two notable differences are the on-die memory controller and the no-excecute (nx) protection from buffer overflows.