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Quote: Originally posted by Brad All this says is that GCC is readying to compile code for the 970 processor. Nothing more. Remember that GCC is used by all kinds of people and that IBM is a Linux vendor. It's just as likely that the GCC updates …
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Quote: Originally posted by johnsonwax I can image the CAD/CAE boys would be interested to see a high-performance 64 bit, 4-way system with hardware accelerated X11. I wonder if Apple's talked to MSC or Dassault... Well, this CAE boy is defin…
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Quote: Originally posted by mmicist NO Do not confuse PCI-X and PCI express, they are completely different beasts. What used to be called 3GIO (amongst many other names) is PCI express is a new physical interface, essentially parallel, and ve…
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Quote: Originally posted by mmicist Ending sentences with prepositons, is, of course, grammatically wrong. Should be : Unfortunately, that is the state in which our society is. Churchill showed just how silly this can get with the marvellou…
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Quote: Originally posted by Shaktai What are the current PCI? "Standard" PCI (1.0?) is 33MHz and 32 bit giving 133 MB/s. There are also 66 MHz and 66MHz/64 bit PCI flavours giving 266MB/s and 533 MB/s respectively. Quote: Originally po…
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Quote: Originally posted by kupan787 Now here is a question for someone more technical. Would it make sene to have the RAM running at half the FSB speed? With Intels 800Mhz (4x200MHz) FSB, what type of RAM are they using, and at what speed? Y…
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Quote: Originally posted by kroehl You are IN a state - not at one. So that would be: 'Unfortunately, that is the state our society is in.' Kroehl Gotcha! Yup, that was the point of the [irony alert]...
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Quote: Originally posted by Shaktai Bare feats has just posted a comparision update between a dual Xeon 2.4, Pentium 4 3.06 and the Current Apple dual 1.42. While I haven't done a detailed analysis of the data, on initial glance it appears …
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Quote: Originally posted by keyboardf12 onlooker, i just did a quick check and on pricewatch i found a no name xeon system for 2k which i do not think was dual?!? What sort of prices are you seeing for dual? If its in the $2500 range and a …
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Quote: Originally posted by Rhumgod Grammar is becoming a lost art, alas. [irony alert] Unfortunately, that is the state our society is at. [/ia]
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Quote: Originally posted by curiousuburb desert named processors still to come... Kalahari, Chihuahaun, Sonoran, Western, Atacama, Namib, Rajasthan, Thar, .... Simpson, Tanami...
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Quote: Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg That's not anything at all like what the MacDoobie benchmarks describe. The 'Doobie benchmarks show the low end, 1.4 GHz Mac keeping even with and at times surpassing a Pentium IV, while the high end, du…
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Quote: Originally posted by Algol The G4 is not going to go any higher than 1.42Ghz in its current incarnation. The Powerbooks will not be able to take anything higher than 1GHz with the 7455 G4. It just gets to hot! The only way apple is goin…
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Quote: Originally posted by visigothe I read the benchmarks, and they didn't do what they should do when talking about "taking a hit"... compare a 32bit version of an app with the 64bit version running on the same system [machine/OS]. No doubt, t…
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Quote: Originally posted by Ed M. People are forgetting that both Intel and Microsoft have been playing down 64-bit for the mainstream desktop for quite a while recently. Can you provide any links where Microsoft has said these kinds of things…
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Quote: Originally posted by @homenow Didnt IBM already pre-anounce a faster 970...something in the range of 2.5 ghz, and then cancel the actual announcement? I have a suspicion that IBM has faster than 1.8 ghz 970's (and remember this was the ori…
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Quote: Originally posted by Anonymous Karma BTW, does anybody know what the registers in the x86-64 are called? EEAX? Looks like RAX: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/2003...4bit_registers 'Course, more detailed stuff on AMD's site but I a…
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Quote: Originally posted by visigothe This means that windows as we know it at the moment [32bit X86] will run unaltered in the Opteron. This will not however, allow any sort of 64 bit computing to take place. They aren't altering the kernel, nor…
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Quote: Originally posted by Matsu regardless, a 64 bit PS7 on AMD would get a lot of mac pros to switch over if it beat a 64 bit mac shop by a significant margin. there is a lot of justified pro user dissatisfaction with the mac, something lik…
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Quote: Originally posted by Programmer With regard to the original topic, I see 5 levels of interaction being possible. I'm not saying anything about the likelyhood of these, I'm just making a list. In no particular order: 1) Apple will ship…