For those questioning the whole concept of "upgrade path", for those who work for a living and have money come in on a regular basis, doing an $800 system purchase today, followed by a $200 CPU purchase in even three months MAY end up being a bit easier than spending $1000 today. Some might...
After AMD implemented the AMD64 instruction set(otherwise refered to as x86-64 or EM64T), it took a while for Microsoft to release a version of Windows that supports the extra features available. In order to run a 64 bit application, the operating system MUST be a 64 bit operating system...
It's under $1080 per boxed Opteron 275 from egghead, which helps quite a bit. As others have said, the case doesn't need to cost that much and doesn't need to look the same as the Apple machine. As others have said, you also don't need to spend $100 for the cooling.
Windows XP Pro OEM is...
The reason that Mac was chosen AGES ago for graphics work was because initially the Macintosh had several advantages in graphics over the PC. The Mac uses square pixels compared to the 4:3 ratio you see on the PC. As a result, it took some extra CPU power to draw objects. Because resolutions...
The key to server performance isn't about how a synthetic benchmark does, but how well it handles a real life server environment. From that perspective, a database benchmark may not be the proper test for a LOT of reasons.
Servers are generally intended to have MANY MANY MANY data requests...
Watt for watt. So they may be able to cut the power draw of Merom by 66% but the speed might stay the same. Or at the same wattage you get a huge boost in performance. Which will it be? I'm not putting down what engineers are doing, just what the marketing people are doing. It's also...
I said that in environments where power usage due to electicity costs was important in those environments. But to say that across the board that performance per watt should be more important than the performance of the processor fails to understand that for MOST people out there, a higher...
Intel may also be using multi-core in their formula to decide what increased performance per watt means. They may try to convince people that a four-core chip with each core running at 1GHz provides the performance of a 4GHz chip or something. We all know it doesn't work that way, but Intel...
Ok, I've gone through all 12+ pages of these posts going back and forth, and decided to finally chime in.
Intelia, you can't compare a water cooled or phase change cooled processor to an air cooled chip and say the water cooled is better. Getting a chip to run stable for extended periods...
You missed that these chips are going to become the new desktop processors from Intel, didn't you? Intel KNOWS that the P4 ran out of room to grow, so they went to the only other processor design they had ALMOST ready for the desktop.
Things we can expect from Intel:
Somewhat better...
When AMD went to socket 939, they broke the ratings a bit. Socket 939 processors have a dual-bank memory controller compared to the single bank socket 754. While this provides an increase in performance, it's not worth the 200 rating points or so they give it.
A socket 754 Athlon 3200+...
In theory, the Windows XP license applies to sockets only and not to the number of cores. As a result, XP Home should in theory show the EE version as 4 "processors" under Windows XP Home(2 cores with HT enabled per core). Under a dual processor system, that means that you could have 8...
ahock, the only advantage Intel has had is due to their higher clock speeds. Hyperthreading was made possible because of the very long instruction pipeline of the P4. Intel hasn't really had a real advantage when it comes to multi-tasking.
As for the other stuff going on...
When 64 bit...
The key is how much work gets done per clock cycle, not how many MHz or GHz a processor is running at.
If you look at cars, a V6 and a V8 engine may produce the same amount of horsepower based on design differences, but the V8 will be able to do it at a lower number of RPMs. One may push...
I've picked one of these up, but I am going to do a case modification to help support the Thermaltake Tower112. Because of the weight and strain this cooler puts on the socket, it comes with an extra mounting bracket that you attach to the motherboard. This requires that you take the...
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