P4 @ 4.7GHz

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  Why? Not everyone is looking for the cheapest solution, my friend. : [7]kami
  • not all of us are rich, so we go for the best performance/price : nurall

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  It took a year to go from 1GHz to 5GHz. How do you see 1THz being "not too far off" : Phearsome
  • the flow of time is weak with this one 1GHz Athlon Reviews [January 11 2000] : halfwaybastard
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    It took from 1978 to 2000 to go from 5mhz to 1Ghz, so maybe by 2024 we could see 1 THz! If DNF is out by ... : NukeDukem
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      Actually, it's not that far off.. 3ghz summer 2002 (well, almost) 6ghz winter 2003 12ghz summer 2005... : needlez
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        Well, you will hit a brick wall long before reaching those clock speeds. But you can always make chips wi... : Grigory
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          yea those speeds sound crazy, but how do you know about the wall? I mean, nobody really knows...and pp... : needlez
          • My friend driving a brandnew fomula firebird hit a brick wall-but that was almost 24 years ago and the wa... : brutal
          • You need to shrink the transistors and you can't go very much lower than one atom per transistor. =) : Grigory
    • I think we will be at 1THZ in 10 years at the most. I am also talking on an afordable consumer level. 7 ... : GravyBoat
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  10 GHz != 1 THz : idmud
  • oh...my...god... : poppasp1ce
• fastest transistor = 100GHz, 1terahertz =1000GHz http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/resources/news/2001... : fen boi
• your sir, are an idiot :P : alky

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  *blinks* latest is 533mhz bus. (845G chipset) : *metal*
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    not true...its still a 133 meg bus...its just quad pumped EFFECTIVELY its a 533 meg bus...but its not ... : TheTick
    • That's ok. We're not literary types. : freqq28

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  ....and you base this on?? NOTHING?!?!? Hell nothing is final till they show a demonstration of how well ... : MarksmanX
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    My glass is half full, yours is half empty. : Arjun Thakur
    • Conclusion: No tip for the waitress. : Grigory

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• Amen : gamegoof

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• Lockpick failed. : *metal*
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  Are you kidding? Or is that a fact? : LordVeXeN
  • Carmack made a comment on this in his quakecon speech. Basically don't believe anything that is said unti... : archon
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  You honestly think a simple cocsole command won't unlock it? Q3 is "locked" at 85 fps. /com_maxfps 100... : Cygnus X-1
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    heh I said cocsole. CONSOLE dammit. : Cygnus X-1
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      Cock sole? *looks disgusted but interested* : Grigory
      • LOL : brutal
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  wasn't q3 locked at a certain fps unless you used a console command? : ermac
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    i think carmack means like the engine is locked at 60fps much like CS is locked at 100.0fps. : Turd Ferguson
    • Then I got some hacked version of CS then. Mine exceeds it past 100 to 120 FPS (My refresh rate). : MarksmanX
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  correct answer is: yes.. it is locked.. out of the box... but afair it is at 80 fps and you can change th... : alky
  • oh you said doom... :P i am talking about quake... i suck : alky

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• 256 player Bf1942!! : needlez
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  That's what they said about the p90 when it first came out.... : *metal*
  • exactly. I WANT Photorealistic games asap. : needlez
• We need it if we're gonna make significant improvements in game A.I. : jvox
• * F A M O U S L A S T W O R D S ' D * : Toraz Chryx
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  I got 4 characters for you: .NET 'nuff said. : Sander Pilon
  • hahahah! I don't know if that's an insult or a compliment?! : indeego
• Not one huh? What about video encoding/editing? Can never have enough speed. Or even people doing some 3d... : Speedy8
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  Well since we're on a gaming forum, I was meerly talking about games. Sure Video Editing/Audio, Servers, ... : []v[]adwacker
  • video games will ALWAYS stretch graphics capabilities. ALWAYS. : Solar Jetman
• Doom III NEEDS THIS! You would be around a steady 60 FPS at 1280 x 1024 at 32-bit color. I hope not! : MarksmanX
• windoze needs this :P : alky

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• ahh yes the greatest crate staking sim ever may finally run at >5 fps : onemind
• THAT ARM!!! : Unleashed
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  Trespasser ! The Strogg have struck again. : brutal
  • har har... after years i still have the exact sound of this monster in my ears :) : alky

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  imo I dont think AMD is showing that much real progress compared to Intel. But they are showing at least ... : Rageaholic
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    I actually hope AMD can keep up. As people say, they are indeed critical to economic balance. I can't... : Downforce
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      I don't think it matters with Doom III. If it's anything like all the other id titles the top of the lin... : Sludgehead
      • I cant wait until some companies push it like the Q3 engine has been. That day will be sweet. : Unleashed
• Lets just hope Hammer is something of a worthy competitor or expect $1000+ for the latest and greatest In... : MarksmanX

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  haha, kind of ironic considering thoes "real mhz for real performance" ads compaq or whoever was running : magila
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    Yeah, it's great. The 4.7ghx speed was based off of the 3.6ghz Hyperthreading. So evem then, that's pre... : Derringer
    • Typos = teh suq : Derringer
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      Do you have a link to that? : FlyingButtPliers
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        http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t271-s2122039,00.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2121991,... : Derringer
        • I don't see anything mentioning 4.7ghz equivalent performance due to hyperthreading...they say the chip w... : FlyingButtPliers
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      um.. Hyperthreading isn't that useful except in by the book cases.. which occur practically never?... : Toraz Chryx
      • Well, no. If you run a couple of threads at the same time (the OS does it all the time) or software is ma... : Grigory

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• i have this crazy feeling that amd will be doing pretty good around q103 : Turd Ferguson

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  only a true fanboy would want to see either intel or amd go out of business : halfwaybastard
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    I love AMD,if not for product, then for the price war. : *metal*
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      yeah we need competition, it keeps the market nice n cheap(well sorta..) : Unleashed
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        "sorta" cheap? The 2200+ XP is ~$145 on pricewatch this instant, the 2100+ is $117. Do you want the... : Polish Sausage
        • So cheap that their wives have to whore to keep the business afloat. : ornee

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  My 1.4GHz T-Bird seems slow now... : JGene
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    my 400 pII seem slow now... : Original G
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      My k6-2 500 seems slow now... : male/grunt
      • My homemade Z80 system seems... Oh well. : Grigory
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  MY ATHLON 700 IS!!!! SLOW : Rageaholic
  • BUT IT WAS FAST FAST FAST FAST LONG AGO : Rageaholic
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  My 7.14 Hmz motorola powred Amiga seems so slow now. :/ : Dynotaku
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    I had one of those fuckers to. (An Amiga 2000.) Wasn't it clocked at 8MHz? : Grigory
    • Oh, and I *still* have it. =) : Grigory

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• Hmm, I had one of those! And it was TEH SHIT back then! =) : Grigory

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  ... Intel demonstrated a 3.5Ghz P4 nearly a year ago... um, I can't buy those yet.... : Toraz Chryx
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    If memory serves me right, I think the 3.5 that was shown was not using conventional cooling. I'm not rea... : Rageaholic
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      Sure, if you look at it from a business perspective it's frickin' obvious, but Intel have been doing this... : Toraz Chryx
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        so whats your point your just backing up my point!!! : Rageaholic
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          my point is, whilst it's good for Intels sake for them to impress investors, it means jack and/or shit to... : Toraz Chryx
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            How is it jack shit, if you dont impress the investors NO R&D CASH, therefore products will simply be vap... : Rageaholic
            • You need a continous cash flow from your investors in order to "slowly" push the product out. Investors h... : Rageaholic
          • What's wrong with your Toraz? You're sounding like an AMD troll that has nothing to say against this Inte... : MarksmanX
• 2nd of all you cant just show the same technology once to your clients or stakeholders. Initial stage ... : Rageaholic

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• This will go the way of the Intel Chip ID/BS they tried with the p2. : *metal*
• meh I am not really sure about that. What I am sure the [H]ardcore websites will get the word out about ... : stgdz

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• Either that, or they're a bit scared of what the hammer can do. In any case it's going to be tough to top... : tension
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  They might be trying to boost stock price (which is almost at a 10 year low) with smoke and mirror presen... : Sludgehead
  • +1 Insightful. : Tissen

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  this is a .09 part (new fab) : Toraz Chryx
  • Nope, this is Northwood architecture. http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1700&p=3 : nomaad

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• Because < 3Ghz chips are going to be much cheaper. : tension

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• 800~ : RiNgMaStEr

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  Runs Quake3 at 700FPS. <G> : *metal*
  • that probably aint no joke with that speed... : Unleashed