CPU Wars

I agree with #38. Lack of FPU on the K6II rocks my world.

Besides, what matters in the long run is not clock speed but money and revenue. Getting a faster chip to market is not a measure of bringing in revenue. They are not \"whupping Intel\'s Ass now!!!!\" Intel is in the Black, has been for umpteen quarters, will continue to be so. AMD\'s losses are growing.

Put the smack down. AMD will be dead/bought out by 2002. WHat should we bet? Their yields are *not* better. The industry was seen proof in Intel yields, and the developer base behind IA-64 is *MUCH* larger than Sledgehammer. Do you see games still being writted for 3dnow? How many were actually made for 3dnow, and did it make a difference in the long run?

I admit amd has better mhz now but better faster technology doesn\'t always win. Marketing is what calls the shots around here... And AMD\'s Marketing muscle is even weaker than they\'re chip speed productions...

#30 + #33.

What the fuck kind of crack are you smoking?!?!

They (AMD) don\'t support 64-bit architecture \"on this one\", and that\'s why they\'ll \"be dead by 2002?!?!\"

Do I really need to comment on this, guys? I mean, what the fuck? Intel won\'t have a 64-bit chip out till late summer/next fall. And the AMD K8, their first 64-bit chip is slated to hit the market before the Merced/Imodium Intel POS chip.

How much you wanna bet that AMD whups Intel\'s lame ass yet again by:

a. Getting their chip to market earlier;
b. Doing it with the minimum of corporate hype;
c. Making their chip WHUP the Intel chip clock for clock, just like the Athlon does right now;
d. Selling their chip at a more competitive price point.

All my money\'s on AMD. They\'re lean, they\'re mean, they\'re yields are better than ever, and they have the new tech, while Intel can\'t even fucking put together a god damn chipset.

I\'m sorry, but let me reiterate:

#30 +#33.

You are fucking clueless.

#35: Performance wise, the K7 is underpriced. Clock-for-clock, it costs less than a PIII, and it performs better.

They may have the best chip now, but
a> It\'s overpriced
b) Hard to get In the retail stores, where money counts. Also, the big mail order/internet OEM vendors like Dell and Gateway aren\'t even bothering with them...
c) Without supply, their reputation staggers lower. It\'s an enthusiasts chip, and it\'s about to die.

tservo, im not \"back\" just yet. trying my best to pop in as much as i can to do updates, but i have very little time right now to actually spend at the computer... =/

AMD dead by 2002 at the latest. Why would people buy shit not supported by Intel and ONLY *AMD*? AMD is still unproven at 32-bit processors and mass production. They really fucked up by not supporting IA-64 on this one.

Shit I just wanna get 120 fps in q3 @ 1024 x 768.

-cre3519]
http://www.belizeinfo.com/k4

w/b sTeve!!!

at the time of the below interview they had been working on the game for 1.5 years and the halo programmer (JJ) says they are about 1/3 done...simple math would tell you the game is 3yrs away fom being done...but of course i dont think thats the case, but i\'d say that 1 year is a bit optimistic...


the interview from august img:

IMG: Halo has been in development for over a year and a half now. Can you talk about Halo\'s beginnings as a strategy game and how it transitioned to a 3rd person action game?

JJ: There\'s an important distinction to make there - Halo didn\'t begin as a strategy game but the engine it uses started out that way. The engine Halo uses began as a next-generation Myth terrain engine, with polygonal units. After playing around with it for a while, putting it through many iterations, it became clear that focusing the action on a single character would be a more compelling use of this world than a strategy game design. It didn\'t become Halo until long after we focused on making it a third-person action game.


IMG: Halo seems to be quite a ways away from being finished. Why did Bungie choose to unveil it at Macworld Expo New York?

JJ: Bungie games are generally developed in three stages: first we make the environment and the engine, then the multiplayer, where we learn to balance units against each other, sort of work out the parameters of each different unit, then the single-player game as the last, perhaps the most challenging, step. That was how the first Marathon was developed, and Myth, and that\'s what we\'re doing on Halo. So, we\'re about done with the first stage at this point, roughly 1/3 done.

Bungie rules the multiverse.

I hope Durandal makes a reappearance/cameo.

settle down people, halo = more than a year away...

\"provided I have to rig to be able to\"
that should read : provided I have the rig to be able to play it

Why don\'t I turn this into a full-blown Halo thread by saying that I\'d rather play Halo (provided I have to rig to be able to) than Quake3 or UT? And not that I dont love the helL out of Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament , its just that EVERYTHING about this game seems completely revolutionary. Everything from graphics to physics to gameplay.

-Oberon
\" I can\'t wait! \"

just give me that HAL-9000 computer that was in some article a few months back. equivalent to like 16000000000ghz but still fit under most desks. i bet i could like....run q3, ut and defrag all at once while downloading the halo demo.

#9, ill add ability to comment on views/tech items when i get home next week fyi.

Off topic....

Does anyone have a link to a mirror of that high-res Halo movie released today by Bungie?

damn, we need mirrors for the Halo movie!!

Since the messageboard seems to have eaten my post:

Aren\'t there already Coppermine chips shipping?

-Scum

#2?....#2?....that is crap...come on, youre better than that...#1 beat you and he wasnt even trying...maybe you are not ready to compete on this level...practice your skills on the ut messageboard, it is pretty dead there, you should be able to get some 1st replies...