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    What do you expect from Barcelona in reality?

    So not only are you predicting that 200Mhz (the difference between the two Phenoms) will make a big difference, but you are also predicting that Intel will release no new processors between December 2007 and March 2008. I am going to doubt it on both counts.
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    RMA: OCZ Platinum DDR2-800?

    What version of Vista are you running? If you have the 32bit version, then nothing is wrong with the ram you have. With a 32bit OS, you will only see a little over 3GB of ram in windows due to the fact that devices such as PCI bus, AGP, or PCI-Express have to mapped to memory. The only way to...
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    POWER6

    The Power 5 image you linked is of a multichip module, not a single Power 5 chip. Each of the four center chips contains 2 Power 5 cores and the outer four chips hold 36MB of L3 cache. Here is a pic of a single Power 5 die with 2 cores: Power5
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    Has there been any word on G90?

    I need to get me some of that GDDR4 XDR2 to replace my SRAM EDO DDR RDRAM in my pc.
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    Intel Demonstrates 80-Core, 3GHz, Air Cooled, Teraflop CPU

    The Cell can't hit 1TFLOP. The Cell's peak is 256GFLOPS at 4Ghz.
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    Intel Demonstrates 80-Core, 3GHz, Air Cooled, Teraflop CPU

    The chip was built using Intel's 65nm process. As for how they compare to a Conroe core, they are alot smaller. The entire chip is 100M transistors and each core is only 3mm^ 2 (This is just an estimate, but I think each Conroe core, without any cache is roughly 35mm^2.)
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    Holy Lord... Intels Larrabee ---disclaimer: INQ LINQ

    It doesn't matter how you design the GPU or what architecture you use, high-end GPU's process ridiculous amounts of data. In order to be able to feed the GPU the data you need either tons of on die memory, like edram, or you need tons of bandwidth to off die memory. The on die approach isn't...
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    New Details on R600 emerging - ReScheduled to MAY Launch

    Unfortunately this isn't true. According to Cevat Yerli, the CEO of Crytek, there are no plans for Crysis on any of the consoles at this point. Xbox360 Clarification
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    ATI's R600 has 64 real pipes

    These are the same guys that say that the R600's core will reach 1GHz. Yeah right! :laugh: ATI's R600 reaches for 1000MHz clock
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    Intel's Next Gen - Conroe - what do you make of the speculation?

    I think the Inquirer article is complete BS. The author is the same author who wrote the "Cell Architecture Explained" article that said stuff like this: Now I am as excited and curious as the next guy when it comes to the Cell and its potential, but the stuff this guy says is completely...
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    Smithfield Users Where Are You?

    I assume you mean Conroe, right? Dothan is the Pentium M that is currently out now. Yonah is the next Pentium M, available for notebooks in Q4 2005/Q1 2006, and Napa is the platform (chipset, graphics and wireless lan) it will run on. Conroe is the next major reworking of Intel's desktop...
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    seagate 7200.8 vs raptor

    I assume you mean 7200.8, when talking about the Seagate drive? In my opinion, get the Seagate 250GB drive. At newegg.com they have a one day sale on them that makes them the same price as the 36.7GB Raptor. You might see a little better performance from the Raptor, but I think the extra...
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    Cell & XBOX 360 Architecture

    The 2TFLOPS number that Sony released is for total system performance, not just the Cell. The same thing is true for XBox 360, 1TFLOP is the total system performance. The Cell's theoretical peak is 218GFlops, while the 360's cpu's theoretical peak is a little over 100GFLOPS.
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    Xbox 360 CPU vs PS3 CPU...3 cores vs 8 cores

    "its back to the drawing board for PS3", what are you talking about? The PS3 has always been slated for release in 2006. Also the Xbox 360 doen't have 3 cpu's, it has 1 cpu with 3 cores.
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    PSU for dual-cores

    The link does not work. Here is a new one: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050405/images/board_big.jpg If you look closely you will notice that the AUX power connector on the motherboard is different. It is an 8 pin connection instead of the usual 4 pin. I wonder if PSU's with the...
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    Wll Computers Ever Be Fast Enough?

    Actually Moore's Law is alive and well. You are making the common mistake, believing that Moore's Law is that cpu speed will double every 18 months. Infact Moore's Law is that the number of transistors on a cpu will double every 18 months. For Example Intel will go from roughly 450 million...
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    The cell is all hype.

    I promise that a cell workstation will be able to outperform an opteron workstation when it comes to graphics rendering and design. IBM says they already have a protype Cell workstation that can reach 16TFLOPS. Link: http://www-03.ibm.com/chips/news/2004/1129_cell2.html
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    The cell is all hype.

    Of course it will not hit 256GFLOPS in real world applications, that is the theoritical peak. But even if it only hits half of that, 128GFLOPS, it will still be far more powerful than any cpu out right now.
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    The cell is all hype.

    The reason we aren't hearing "that much about it" is that today was the first time IBM, Sony or Toshiba has officially talked about it in public. They did just that at ISSCC today and will be saying more in the next couple of days as the conference wraps up.
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    The cell is all hype.

    The Cell is not a gpu. NVidia is designing the GPU for the Playstation 3. According to CNet News.com, the cell, which is a cpu with a 64-bit Power Processor and 8 "synergistic processing units" can perform 256GFLOPS. By comparison a Pentium 4 3Ghz chip can perform 6GFLOPS. Yes, the Cell...
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    Has Anyone Used this Case?

    I saw this case on the net and thought it looked cool. I also liked the placement of the psu and the hard drives, but was wondering what quality the case is. Does anyone have or has anyone used this case http://www.newegg.com/app/View...11-196-006&depa=0?
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    Computer for My Dad?

    He connects mostly through broadband, but occasionally has to use dial up. The web hosting sounds like that my be the best bet.
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    Computer for My Dad?

    I am not sure what he is thinking for a budget, but probably no more than $800-$1000. We I need the VPN?
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    Computer for My Dad?

    My dad wants to get a new computer and he asked me to check things out for him. I built my own pc and I am fairly knowledgeable about computers and components, but I do have a question that you guys can help me with. He has his own small business. Basically he wants to be able to have...
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    Intel's Pretty Much Screwed.

    One thing to remember about the numbers on Xbitlabs, is those are only for a single month. So yes AMD outsold Intel for that one (or a couple) month(s). The numbers that both Accord99 and myself were quoting were for all the computers (desktops, notebooks, workstations, and servers) in the...
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    Intel's Pretty Much Screwed.

    Thanks Accord99. Here is where I got my numbers from: http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P1365 AMD has only been out selling Intel lately and as you can see has made very little progress in the grand scheme of things.
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    Intel's Pretty Much Screwed.

    It may just be me, but I think we are getting ahead of ourselves by predicting the demise of Intel. After all the advances AMD has made this past year or two, Intel still has over 82% of the cpu market compared to AMD's 15%. The big advantage that gives Intel is capital for R&D. I...
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    dvd compared to film

    Actually the two major HDTV resolutions are 720p and 1080i. 720p is 921,600 pixels, 1280*720. 1080i is 2,073,600 pixels, 1920*1080. So HDTV can handle just over 2MP.
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    Overclocking Prescott 3.0

    Intel won't let you overclock on any of there boards now. If your board is made by someone else you can, but not on an Intel made board.