itanium systems

[jhu]

anyone have experience with this? i've seen some itanium cpus go for as little as $50 on ebay. how about motherboards for these things? i think they'd be pretty a kick-ass computer.

 

[kalster]

Originally posted by: jhu
anyone have experience with this? i've seen some itanium cpus go for as little as $50 on ebay. how about motherboards for these things? i think they'd be pretty a kick-ass computer.

kick ass for what?


i am not sure you can get windowz for ia 64 yet

wat is teh use in mind

u do know that 32 bit apps run in emulated mode so very very slow

 

[jhu]

i'd use it for image rendering using povray. an 800mhz itanium would sure beat the hell out of my 800mhz celeron. and i'd get the i-have-an-itanium-and-you-don't bragging rights.

 

[Ionizer86]

Lol, Itanium sucks pretty badly emulating IA32 code. It'll run like a ~200MHz Pentium (IIRC).

Spend your $50 getting a 1700+ of course, unless there's tons of apps you like that have IA64 Itanium code 🙂

 

[jhu]

who said i'd be running ia32 code?

 

[dexvx]

Originally posted by: kalster
kick ass for what?

i am not sure you can get windowz for ia 64 yet

It's been out since Windows 2000 IA64 edition. Thats ... 3 years?

Originally posted by: Ionizer86

Lol, Itanium sucks pretty badly emulating IA32 code. It'll run like a ~200MHz Pentium (IIRC).

He said he'll run PovRay, and there is a highly optimized PovRay for IA64. IIRC, a 1Ghz Itanium2 is about 3x as fast as an Opteron 1.8Ghz.

But in any event, I doubt you'll find any cheap motherboards, unless one pops up on eBay. If you could get a motherboard/PSU, then the rest of the system components are fairly standard.

 

[KalTorak]

Some of the usual Asian suspects were showing off whiteboxable Itanium motherboards at Fall IDF...

 

[jhu]

problem is, will intel let them sell the boards at a reasonable price?