Comment Re:No hardware? (Score 1) 225
As both cheap graphics cards and motherboards with HDMI outputs are very much mainstream nowadays, I think your use of the word "specialized" is inaccurate here.
As both cheap graphics cards and motherboards with HDMI outputs are very much mainstream nowadays, I think your use of the word "specialized" is inaccurate here.
Core 2 Duo P9600 has 2 cores; we have moved much past that stage with six core CPUs and advancements in CPU architecture after C2D, and like mentioned, the code presented is pretty much an early alpha.
Great stuff! Shows Intel's representative's earlier comments about software implementation not being feasible quite wrong.
I know you are trying to be funny, but you still should have replied the GP here, not me.
Absolutely right, emphasis on the tiny chance. Where are my mod points...
Thanks for the tip.
You can "easily" change the button positions in Gnome: Open terminal, type "gconf-editor", go to
Steam and HL2 work fine on Linux with WINE.
So, do we get Phenom II X4 955 vs Intel i5 750 here?
Have fun lagging behind, AC!! LOL!!1!
Hmm-ho, again thanks for the reply. I'll again address your points by numbering.
1. Good for you. Did you really need the quad core? What are you using the computer for? Did you forget the longevity of LGA 775, where you can still do the same thing? Doesn't make sense to me, but CPUs are readily available.
2. I'd suggest taking a hard look at CPU architecture development. By a friend, I happen to know something about it, and the pin layout (corresponding to power and data ports) is actually very important. If you don't think that AM3 was outdated when it came out, I'd suggest doing some research. This is not meant to offensive in any way, the CPU design just means that the pin layout has to live with the optimal physical construction.
3. Your latter point about AMD's big change strikes true to me too, but as a solid-state physicist, I recognize the realities. AM3 is old now, and going past it requires changing the socket, or hampering the real performance just to be backwards-compatible.
For your musings, Intel already made the thing, and it got good acceptance.
Again, I'm not an Intel buff by any means, but as a computer building enthusiast, IMO they have been taking the more sensible way, dropping old crud and pushing aggressively forward.
Yeah, and you just chose the CPUs no-one in the "know" would buy. 980X is for the AnalWare and equivalent horrendously overpriced prebuilts and the few stupid people they can snare just by being the fastest around here (which is probably true); i5 and i3 dual cores can't compete with AMD's offerings.
Can we go back to i5 quads vs Phenom II X4?
Yeah, I agree. Whoever modded up the GP doesn't know a thing about the issue.
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Very good points. If you can follow me without quotes, I'll try to address them linearly:
1. This point about the price
2. Very well, that's the kind of math I've been doing for other people too for some years now. AM3 was outdated when it was introduced, because if you really want to get the best out of a new CPU architecture, you better make a socket that can match it for the best. Hence the two new sockets from Intel in a short time, after we thought that LGA 775 was never going to go away.
3. Repetition of 2, but AMD must know that the next bigger step ("tock" in Intel's language) must mean a big change in the architecture. They can keep the next generation of CPUs compatible with the older boards, but that hampers the innovations they can make in the designs, and thus it probably lowers the performance. I don't trust either of the CPU manufacturers to stay on their PR-published road maps after a year or two, and thus I plan my builds so that I can get most of them out in the period they are supposed to deliver (for example) gaming performance for me, and then they are retired for other tasks.
As a side note, I too loved Socket A, with my water-cooled Athlon M 2500+ running at 3 GHz just fine
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.