I was in the library flipping through a back issue of EE Times... and I found an article saying Sun Microsystems was working on a clockless computer...
Anyone here think there could be a day we will call 'The End of GHz'???
Oh my... 17%??? Someone really should do some real world app tests with this DOS compatibility thing disabled. Maybe the P4 is more powerful than everyone first thought :D
I don't know about the Cache, but the Athlon has a few more execution units than the Pentium3 - supposedly the transistor gates in execution units get worked alot... thus the Athlon runs much hotter...
However, this is more a question for the Electrical Engineers.
1 GHz Athlon ~ 54 Watts
1...
<< In this latest batch of court papers, Fox cites Stillman's suit, claiming CBS and the makers of Survivor had engaged in "prearranging and predetermining the outcome" of both the first Survivor series and its recent sequel. Fox said this was done to "appeal to a desired audience...
<< In this latest batch of court papers, Fox cites Stillman's suit, claiming CBS and the makers of Survivor had engaged in "prearranging and predetermining the outcome" of both the first Survivor series and its recent sequel. Fox said this was done to "appeal to a desired audience...
AP Euro... ah brings back such memories...
I dunno if they changed the test, but it was ridiculously easy when I took it in May '99
Physics C was quite hard :(
Here ya go for an AP Euro resource!!! Good luck!
The Inquirer claims that Palomino has SSE2 support... is SSE2 exclusively Intel or has Intel licensed the technology???
http://www.theinquirer.net/10050107.htm
Ok... I'm now seriously considering purchasing a Radeon LE. I have a few questions though...
(1) If I OC the card from 148 MHz to 166 MHz, do I need a fan on the heatsink?
(2) If you have owned a Diamond Viper V550 TNT card before, how does the 2D quality on the Radeon compare to the V550's...
kewl... as a kid I always wanted to buy my own system, but I never had the cash. Never paid for an entire system until this year - $520 for a Dell Latitude CPi P2-266. :)
Oh, I forgot my dad's old AT and T.
??? MHz 8086
640K RAM
20 MB HDD
10" green-screen
The first serious rig I worked on was a Gateway 4DX-33V in Dec. 1992 (I was 11, almost 12)
33 MHz 486DX
8 MB 70ns DRAM, 64K L2 Cache
250 MB HDD
1 MB ATI VESA Local Bus graphics
1x CDROM!!!
Aztec sound card
15" CrystalScan monitor
Windows 3.1
Cost of $2800... but wow did it kick arse...
<<< Well, I'm a total gamer >>>
Get the PC133. More memory bandwidth generaly = better games performance (provided your FSB can take advatage of it
*i820/Rambus* kof kof
:P
I see a great many people are enjoying AXIA TBirds and a few have taken the P4 leap...
Are my rigs too slow? I'll check the poll in the morning. See sig for rigs.
Tee hee... the article is pretty good - a future full of minisub fighters and sub Carriers sounds cool to me!
Why oh why did SeaQuest have to go off the air :(
SeaQuest: DSV
:P
No military sub would be able to use this as a primary means of propulsion... it would majorly disrupt sonar. But for quick deployment it might be nice.
Nah... there's too much money involved.
Besides, in a few years all the Commies will be senile or dead - the Tieneman Square generation will have their day and things will change.
a Pentium 3 processor gets too hot? I hear that a thermal sensor will shut the chip down, but does this turn the computer off as well? Will the system crash, BSOD, or what?
I wanted to download CPUID from H-Oda's site, but when I clicked on the link to download the file I got this message:
<<<Your access point was prohibited because other member did the dishonest operation>>>
Dishonesty? I don't understand this...
Try here for the latest detonator drivers. Your V770 uses an Nvidia TNT2 chip I think.
NVidia
If you want non-det drivers I think you are SOL - Diamond hasn't released anything new in years.
Softballslug:
McGlen Sucks as$ - Big time. I ordered a P3-750 from them... they said it would ship in 3 days. 4 days later, I called asking why it did not ship - they said I'd have to wait 10 business days. wtf?! I canceled my order and bought from Googlegear. Shiped the next day.
Those clowns...
well...
PC800 is really PC400 DDR. 400 MHz transfering data on each edge of a clock cycle.
However, the interface is only 16 bits wide, whereas an SDRAM interface is 64 bits wide.
Rambus = narrow, fast channel
Sdram = wider, slower channel
Ok... I'm going to make a huge amount of generalizations here...
For most people, the Pentium 3 and the Athlon perform about the same clock for clock in most applications.
Pentium 4 is generally slower clock for clock in programs that are branch-heavy and integer dependant (Office Apps are a...
In terms of bandwidth:
Per Channel:
PC800 ~ 1.6 GB/Sec
PC700 ~ 1.4 GB/Sec
PC600 ~ 1.2 GB/Sec
To put this in perspective...
PC100 ~ 0.8 GB/Sec
PC133 ~ 1.06 GB/Sec
However, I might add that Rambus has a higher latency, meaning that it takes the RDRAM interface longer to find information...
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