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Just cant wait when they actually arrive and we can see for our selves what they can do in relation to A64 Dual cores.
Dont just write off AMD just yet
Dont just write off AMD just yet
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Intel's Conroe 2.66GHz beats an Athlon 64 FX-60 overclocked to 2.8GHz!
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Hang on a minute we don't need a faster CPU. Processors are already more powerful that we need. We need better software, better games and on the hardware side better storage. Large scale storage is the limit today – we should be working on TB storage capable of 1GB per sec sustained transfer. Until then there's nothing to get excited about in hardware at the moment.
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clv101 said:
Graphics card bottlenecking? Yeah we do
clv101 said:
If that's what you think then you most obviously haven't done much scientific computing. You can never have the calculations done fast enough. Not everyone uses their computers for nothing but gaming and media. In my home I have more than 30 GHz worth of processing going on at any one time. Most of these machines don't have graphics cards at all. I use these computers for computing.
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BillytheImpaler said:
what do you do with them, out of interest?
Mostly they think about proteins.
There's been some talk lately about setting up a render farm among a few of my friends. I don't really do any of that 3DS Max/Maya type stuff so whatever they want to do is up to them.
There's been some talk lately about setting up a render farm among a few of my friends. I don't really do any of that 3DS Max/Maya type stuff so whatever they want to do is up to them.
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ahh. well it's all subjective then. 30ghz of cpu isnt what the average household will have or need... a 10th of that isn't
I only have a masters degree in computational physicsBillytheImpaler said:
. But yeah I know what you mean. For some people/tasks there can never be enough power. But generally speaking... across the vast majority of users hardware has run away from software. From ~1990 'til ~2000 computers had to be upgraded every year... these days (XP's been with us for 5 years!) most users can get by on any reasonably recent PC and wouldn't benefit from a CPU upgrade like they would have benefited from the upgrade from a 200MHz Pentium to a 600MHz P4 to a 1GHz Athlon to a 3GHz P4.clv101 said:Yeah yeah... I meant P3.
Speaking of P3s, I have one sitting here, old Dell system someone threw out...
Back on topic, I dont know if this has been mentioned before but Intel quietly released a low-end dual core (2.66ghz\533fsb) priced at around £120 in the UK..
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Intel_Pentium_4_Dual_Core.htmlsr4470 said:Surely that has to be OEM?