donut
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 posted on 6/2/06 at 07:34 PM |
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New CORE proccessor
Anyone know what the new CORE proccessor is all about? Saw it on the cover of a PC mag and said it was 4 times faster and silent!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Messenjah
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| posted on 6/2/06 at 07:37 PM |
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not sure but isnt it the one developed by sony for the ps3
if so DAMN its good
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muzchap
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| posted on 6/2/06 at 07:56 PM |
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Sony one is the CELL processor :-)
If it's M$ its: this
or it could be an AMD variant?
[Edited on 6/2/06 by muzchap]
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Peteff
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| posted on 6/2/06 at 08:12 PM |
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I went to the link
But the man on the right scared me so I shut it again  He was the baddie in Captain Scarlet.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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donut
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| posted on 6/2/06 at 08:43 PM |
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Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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stevec
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| posted on 6/2/06 at 09:15 PM |
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My lad has just bought a duel core processer.
His pvevious one was positively smokey and he says the duel core one is 2and a half times better,
Combined with an equally smokey graphics card you have what I believe is called the dogs nuts.
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dl_peabody
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 03:57 AM |
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IBM has been doing alot of research on the Core...said to kill the PC in 5 to 10 years.
(Cell)
Mutliple cores built on to a single chip (like eight cores I was reading, moving processes and memory onto the chip they can really crunch some
numbers)
It will be interesting....
Double speed by 2007
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c41f2d94-973c-11da-82b7-0000779e2340.html
Sony IBM alliance
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/12/sti_alliance_extended_five_years/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/index.php?p=517
Cell computing ??? or Dual / multiple Core?
Did this help or muddy the waters? ( I think I confused myself...Sorry)
[Edited on 7/2/06 by dl_peabody]
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donut
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 07:47 AM |
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Looks like there will be a war on between IBM, Intel (ding ding ding - just like the ads!) and AMD!! YAY!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Gav
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 10:13 AM |
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I read a paper on the cell processor a couple of years ago and it came to these conclusions:
It's been suggested that the Cell will be of limited use in a general purpose home computer because;
* Most of its raw power lies in the highly parallel nature of its vector APUs and most home computing tasks don't make heavy use of highly
parallel vector code. Nor could they.
* It's main core, although based on the POWER arch, is a relativley simple in-order execution unit. So while it can chew through one task quite
quickly it'll be stuck with the kind if heavily branching and context switching code you use on a home PC.
--
Now i understand the code branching bit but not the "highly parallel nature of its vector APUs"
[Edited on 7/2/06 by Gav]
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donut
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| posted on 7/2/06 at 10:27 AM |
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I'm sure the reviews will tell us all.
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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