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  1. meloz

    Could Skylake present us a regression in single-threaded performance?

    This forum has been slow -not much new CPU news- so let's speculate to pass our time. I have been thinking about Intel's desktop CPU strategy for 2015. They will be selling Broadwell-K (old architecture, shrunk Haswell) and Skylake (their new baby) at the same time. Now, we know our...
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    Intel OSTC's kernel patches reveal initial details about Skylake

    Intel's Open-Source Technology Center pushed some changes towards the kernel. From these patches Larabel has compiled following information: ULT, ULX and DT are self-explanatory. But what about Halo? How would a Halo GT1 differ from DT GT1? SRV is presumably reserved for the small-socket...
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    How will AMD answer the challenge posed by Haswell?

    I have just read the excellent article by Anand: Intel's Haswell Architecture Analyzed: Building a New PC and a New Intel As I read through the article about all these things Intel was doing to improve their future processors, one thought kept recurring in the mind: what will be AMD's answer...
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    Ubuntu Server 10.04 is heading for a disaster

    Even phoronix with their usually slanted benchmarks cannot hide the truth. Ouch. As Linode's data shows, Ubuntu Server remains a very popular distrobution in server space. Most of the guys using Ubuntu Server Edition would be people like me, who know just about enough to get in...
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    A decent G45/G47 chipset motherboard

    Hello everyone! I have been reading these forums and the websites for few days, joined today. I am planning to build a new computer using the cheapest Intel Core2Duo processor E7200 (in 45nm). Since I do not play 'heavy' or modern games (just simple flash games sometimes), I was thinking...