GHZ Wars with RAM!!!!

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No little one, before socket 478 there was a socket 423... :roll:
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Old-Skool  :mrgreen:
Never knew about that one, thought 370 (Pentium 3 coppermine etc..) came before 478 :P
 
I am at the moment, riding a nice train, an e6600 @ 3.6GHZ 9*400 Air cooled, x1900xtx, 2gb DDR2 OCZ 6400 (800mhz).
It's pretty fast compared to my old,socket 478 P4 2.4GHZ @ 3.0 1024mb DDR1 Pc2700 and x850xt PE.

The "Core Duo 2" is actual a mixed Pentium 2-3-4 bringin the best parts form all of them.

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XDR ram is quite slow compared to the MHZ (latancy is poor).
Intel are trying to make the best out of XDR, but they are moving more and more over to DDR3
 
Isnt XDR from Rambus? If it is I know Intel will have a hard time shifting that.
I just realised that the Core 2 Duo isnt 64Bit!
It seems only the laptop (Memron) version is 64Bit compatible. I will definatly wait for a 64bit Core 2 duo before I take the plunge
After all I want to be future proof..
 
I tell you I am getting confused, Im sure I read conflicting reviews yesterday about the 64bit ability of Conroe (at least on the E6300).

I think I need a trip to intel's website...
 
Core Duo (yonah) aren't 64bit combitable, but Core 2 Duo, is combitable

it's not quite 64bit thou, but it is "emulated". There will be "Real" 64 bit when they er shifting core arcitecture, (neahalem)
Also it's no performance loss with that "emulated" type off 64bit!
 
Isnt XDR from Rambus? If it is I know Intel will have a hard time shifting that.
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Which is bit of a shame, RDRAM was decent enough memory, just very expensive.

(Sorry for the short post, we are troubleshooting a privilege issue...)
 
Core Duo (yonah) aren't 64bit combitable, but Core 2 Duo, is combitable

it's not quite 64bit thou, but it is "emulated". There will be "Real" 64 bit when they er shifting core arcitecture, (neahalem)
Also it's no performance loss with that "emulated" type off 64bit!
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It's mainly there so people who want to run a 64bit app, they can.
Desktop procs arent something to do real 64bit things on anyway.
 
Desktop procs arent something to do real 64bit things on anyway.
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You sure are right, not now at least. Developers needs to implantate, Multi-Threading and 64bit support to their programms (games, apps, etc.)
 
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Chaos..

Bill Gates in 1985 said he didn't see desktop PCs ever needing more than 640 KB of memory. In 1989, Computer Gaming World (CGW) announced that Video Expansion Cards were "expensive, ineffective, and doubtlessly a doomed technology". Everytime somebody predicts that PCs will "never need/do" something, they're almost invariably wrong. Right now a top of the line PC can actually outperform (per clock cycle) a Cray YMP/2 supercomputer from 1990.

All the Core 2 Duo's actually use 2 X 64-bit ALUs per core. This allows EACH core to perform one 128 bit calc per clock. However, they still use 32bit instructions and addressing.
 
Chaos..

Bill Gates in 1985 said he didn't see desktop PCs ever needing more than 640 KB of memory. In 1989, Computer Gaming World (CGW) announced that Video Expansion Cards were "expensive, ineffective, and doubtlessly a doomed technology". Everytime somebody predicts that PCs will "never need/do" something, they're almost invariably wrong. Right now a top of the line PC can actually outperform (per clock cycle) a Cray YMP/2 supercomputer from 1990.

All the Core 2 Duo's actually use 2 X 64-bit ALUs per core. This allows EACH core to perform one 128 bit calc per clock. However, they still use 32bit instructions and addressing.
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You have a point but those days they didn't really need the technology of it at all.
I'm just saying if you want to do extreme multi-threaded 64bit apps you should by a blade server or something thats made for the job, not some wanky desktop proc. (though it does its job for WinXP 64...at least the AMD procs do, the intel has major performance drrops because of the emulated 64bit implementation.)
 
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