From a well-known brand? Well-designed? With several decent applications bundled? Not overheating? Decent-quality chipset and motherboard?
And if anything, those are Pentium D's (Pentium 4 derivatives), which are nowhere near as powerful as their gig's would make them sound. Dead-end technology.
From a well-known brand? Well-designed? With several decent applications bundled? Not overheating? Decent-quality chipset and motherboard?
If I am not mistaken, it was some HP model. But I don't remember details about specifications, it was just a glance while I was looking for something else.
Why, yes, I do. And my Quad is plenty fast for my projects.
Add plenty of Motion, Livetype, general effects that have to be rendered then encoded, it kills my iMac.
Projects I have seen on a new quad was impressive, but for advanced techniques and projects, it isn't enough (and will never be enough as long as I have to wait more than half-a-second).
My point is that despite the hardware "defects" that prevent a multi-processor machine to deliver its full power, there are situations where 4 x 2.5 can actually mean 10. Unfortunately, these are isolated exceptions.
Heh. The 970gx, 970mx roadmap is interesting. Was it IBM's roadmap before they moved to the PPU core in the Cell as the PPC CPU core of the future, or was IBM willing to do them concurrently?
What makes you think the Cell PPE would be the future of PPC cores from IBM?
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Originally posted by PB
I have seen dual core 3.0 GHz Intel systems at around 1000 euros.
From a well-known brand? Well-designed? With several decent applications bundled? Not overheating? Decent-quality chipset and motherboard?
Originally posted by Chucker
From a well-known brand? Well-designed? With several decent applications bundled? Not overheating? Decent-quality chipset and motherboard?
And if anything, those are Pentium D's (Pentium 4 derivatives), which are nowhere near as powerful as their gig's would make them sound. Dead-end technology.
Originally posted by Chucker
From a well-known brand? Well-designed? With several decent applications bundled? Not overheating? Decent-quality chipset and motherboard?
If I am not mistaken, it was some HP model. But I don't remember details about specifications, it was just a glance while I was looking for something else.
Originally posted by Nr9
heh, i said no a long time ago
Look who is there.
Originally posted by Chucker
From a well-known brand? Well-designed? With several decent applications bundled? Not overheating? Decent-quality chipset and motherboard?
Dell will sell you a 3 GHz XPS Pentium D system for $1200.
Isn't a Quad 2.5Ghz enough?
Thats 10Ghz!
4 x 2.5 = 10
Originally posted by Agent Macintosh
People!
Isn't a Quad 2.5Ghz enough?
Thats 10Ghz!
4 x 2.5 = 10
You don't use Final Cut Studio do you?
Originally posted by aplnub
You don't use Final Cut Studio do you?
Why, yes, I do. And my Quad is plenty fast for my projects.
Originally posted by Agent Macintosh
People!
Isn't a Quad 2.5Ghz enough?
Thats 10Ghz!
4 x 2.5 = 10
I wasn't aware Apple came up with a miraculous technology that enabled 0% latency for dual-core and dual-processing.
If you're really going to add up "GHzes" like that, 7 or 8 GHz is more likely.
Originally posted by Chucker
If you're really going to add up "GHzes" like that, 7 or 8 GHz is more likely.
While this is true generally, there are cases where the quad 2.5 GHz is more than twice as fast as the dual 2.5 GHz.
Originally posted by Agent Macintosh
Why, yes, I do. And my Quad is plenty fast for my projects.
Add plenty of Motion, Livetype, general effects that have to be rendered then encoded, it kills my iMac.
Projects I have seen on a new quad was impressive, but for advanced techniques and projects, it isn't enough (and will never be enough as long as I have to wait more than half-a-second).
Originally posted by PB
While this is true generally, there are cases where the quad 2.5 GHz is more than twice as fast as the dual 2.5 GHz.
But that's multi-core vs. multi-processing.
Originally posted by Chucker
But that's multi-core vs. multi-processing.
My point is that despite the hardware "defects" that prevent a multi-processor machine to deliver its full power, there are situations where 4 x 2.5 can actually mean 10. Unfortunately, these are isolated exceptions.
Originally posted by THT
Heh. The 970gx, 970mx roadmap is interesting. Was it IBM's roadmap before they moved to the PPU core in the Cell as the PPC CPU core of the future, or was IBM willing to do them concurrently?
What makes you think the Cell PPE would be the future of PPC cores from IBM?
Originally posted by RazzFazz
What makes you think the Cell PPE would be the future of PPC cores from IBM?
Well, it is either PPE or Power6.
Originally posted by Programmer
Well, it is either PPE or Power6.
Actually, there's at least one more contender.
Originally posted by RazzFazz
What makes you think the Cell PPE would be the future of PPC cores from IBM?
If there is another, let us know.
Originally posted by RazzFazz
Actually, there's at least one more contender.
I don't know how much mileage is really in the 750 line, and didn't they sell off their 4xx line? What am I missing?