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Transistor technology moving forward?

I read a few weeks ago about a new breakthrough in quantum computing. I highly doubt it will reach consumer products in the next decade (or two, or three), but they're definitely making progress in that field. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385665,00.asp It can hardly do much...
- eldaveo
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- Jun 9, 2011
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Hmm, interesting statistics. I'm a bit amused that a CPU so ancient could still be so (relative to much newer models) competitive! I'm wondering if I'd still get better performance out of it, even if raw benchmarks show the Athlon is more powerful? Just by virtue of the Celeron having more...
- eldaveo
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- Jun 9, 2011
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So theoretically, a older-gen entry-level video card should take most of the load off the processor, correct? As long as it has support for video decoding. I don't think the Radeon 9600 Pro has any sort of built-in decoding, because the processor usage is extremely high any time a video is...
- eldaveo
- Post #14
- Jun 8, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Hmm, I forgot about the instruction sets. From what I can tell, I would be gaining SSE2 and SSE3. I don't know enough about those to know how much of a difference that would make though.
- eldaveo
- Post #10
- Jun 7, 2011
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Yeah, it'd probably be around $50-60 to upgrade it. But if it's going to be a minor difference, I'm not sure it's even worth that much! I don't suppose that line of Celerons overclocks well, do they? It's got a stock cooler. I think I saw at least some basic OCing options in the BIOS when I was...
- eldaveo
- Post #8
- Jun 7, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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It's still NetBurst even though it's a Socket 775 chip? Odd. I'd probably be better off sticking with the Athlon then, since a small performance increase is likely not worth the cost for new memory/video card. I'm still going to test it though, just out of curiosity. A desktop full of icons...
- eldaveo
- Post #5
- Jun 7, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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I've currently got a media PC running Windows 7 on an old Athlon XP 2600+, which clocks at 2.1GHz, with 2GB DDR1 (not sure what speed) and a Radeon 9600 Pro 512MB. Basically an old gaming rig. It still runs Windows 7 fairly decently, given the age of the hardware, but XBMC has some graphical lag...
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