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mosfet:
I almost forgot, there's that adapter that lets you put a p-M cpu on a cheaper s478 motherboard with faster/better parts.
so that lowers the price even more. It will be even nicer when the p-M proces lower to more on par with AMD and 4 prices tho.
p-M is what the p4 should have been. All they needed is p-M with SSE3 and competitive prices, and AMD might not have spanked them so hard, if at all.
nihilist:
Heh, go search for Yonah.
Or, read this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/02/intel_yonah_gaming/
Trinary:
There was a LOT of talk about improving threading and parellelism at SDWest in response to the coming short-pipeline, multi-core evolution of CPUs. Everyone is releasing some form of multi-core CPU this year or early next.
In test fabs for Intel's 4-and-up GHz architectures, they were making pipeline stages with no logic in them because the amount of physical distance a signal can cover in one clock cycle is becoming significant and super long pipelines is the only way they can make sure a signal is at the right place at the right time...and long pipelines are slow and easy to stall or starve. Intel has pretty much abandoned their plans for 5Ghz chips.
Multi-core is the way it will all go. And that's cool with me...we just need to write software that can deal with it. CAS is neat.
nihilist:
I grabbed my first dual-processor workstation back in 98, and have been harassing about threads pretty much ever since. Hopefully developers, especially game developers, will do some learning. They should, especially given the new setup for the next Xbox and the PS3. Here's to hoping...
c1utch:
--- Quote from: nihilist ---Pentium M 745 (1.8GHz) - $400 CDN
DFI 855GME-MGF motherboard - $350 CDN
OCZ PC-3200 DDR400 Enhanced Latency 1GB - $223 CDN
Antec Lifestyle Overture MATX case - $132
One sweet fast quiet system: $1270 CDN (with 15% GST/PST tax - for Ontario residents)
Figure $900 US (conversion and no pesky taxes). Not bad at all.
--- End quote ---
no gpu? soundcard? 3rd party HSF? PSU? HDD or CD/DVD drives?
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