AMD future

Common logical fallacy. Google "shifting the burden of proof".

And now on top of shifting the burden of proof and bringing up straw men
you're also requiring proof of a negative and making assumptions not in
evidence, not to mention appearing to be attempting argumentum ad
hominem. Or maybe that was just a weak attempt at an insult, although
I'm not quite clear on whether it is revealing you as a homophobe,
heterophobe, or just a prude.

I'm curious, what do you _do_ at this educational institution of yours?

 

I have just such a system. A Gigabyte 7NNXP running a SATA striped RAID 0
array and 512MB of DDR 3200. I don't see much that bogs the system down.
The hard drive is usually the bottleneck in a system anyway.

I do graphics, video editing, etc... and have never had the system dog too
much. As a matter of fact, I've never had a dropped frame in video capture.
I don't do much 3D rendering so I can't speak to that. By the benchmarks my
system may be a dog to some, but in the real world it does the job well (and
cost a heckuva lot less than "Intel Inside").

When the 64 drops in price I may upgrade, but that will probably be a while.

Art

 

Only!!

If they use it for personal e-mail, chatting with friends, reading
newsgroups like these (what you are doing right now!), listening to MP3's
or CD's etc etc isn't legal as part of their EULA. I hope the machine you
are using for this debate has a -bought by you- copy of windows on it or
you are breaking their EULA!

Also all users must be taking a course that is studying the content of
MSDNAA and the faculty given the software must be directly involved in the
program as well. This is NOT:

"which allows us to distribute a long list of software to faculty and
students at no cost to them"

It allows you to distribute to specific people for specific reasons certain
software.. Big difference, but you'll never accept what you orginally
claimed was incorrect. I -KNEW- MS isn't giving away software for free as
you tried to claim.

 

profits

Sounds like Intel

 

P4 still is overpriced for what you get. What's always been the only
thing to consider.

 

Quantum computing...Problem is, it only works 90% of the time.*




*Explanation: An electron 'orbital' is the space in which an electron
occurs...ninety percent of the time.

 

90% hmmmmm sounds just like my friends Intel PCs, they'll feel right at
home! ;p

 

Laugh..

I guess the big question is how many cach hits are actually misses. I know
it's a problem that gets worse as chips get faster, but would you say it's
as big as 10%.. hmmm I wonder

 

This issue is called "cache coherency" and any machine is designed to
deal with it. If there are _any_ hits that don't reflect the data
stored in main memory then something is broken.

 

How would you know? If you observe it, it dissappears.

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Why are you here? Intel crap is Intel crap, go preach somewhere else please.

 

Oh shut up. Why are you here? Intel crap is Intel crap, go preach somewhere
else please.

 

Sounds like an Intel apologist. 'Sorry, Intel is so lame...but buy me
anyway'! Sickening to listen too.

 

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Try to beat that with the latest Intel crap!

 

Don't get high hopes on Prescott tough. Only good it will do is intruduce
new plateforms where we can run Nortwoods on, only faster.
It has some serious issues with electrochemistry, also those (even more)
lengthed pipelines will give reduced performance per clockrate. Remember how
P4 1,6 was outclassed by almost all other 1,6GHz cpu's? Even
athlon1,2/duron1,3 were a LOT faster than (on papir)faster P4.

Get XP 64 at 3000+. That or opteron.