well… when they were up to 3.8ghz i think was the highest i have seen… then most processors now sit anywhere from 2.0ghz to 2.6ghz… I would say thats a drop. I think this is what marcus was getting at… but again its a terrible way to grade a processor when the L2 and L1 caches have increased immensely in size… and obviously the introduction of mulitple processing cores to increase performance.
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The benchies that I posted for Intel are from the new 45nm core CPU. By the end of 2008 is when the big crushing blow is going to come from Intel when they ditch their aging bus technology and integrate the memory controller on to the CPU die. This is called Nehalem.
Wow, neither of you own Intel or AMD… You just support their products… Who the fuck cares, someone just puts out something better the next day. This guy is looking for someone to help build his pc, not get his thread hi-jacked.
Intel is fast, and generated alot of heat. It also uses alot more power.
AMD is cheaper, just as fast, and doesn’t use alot of power.
You’ll be happy with either if you’re going quad core.
Mac is going to grow in popularity, but i’d probably dual boot either, Lynix, GNOME based GUI, or stripped version of xp pro.
Dual cores have been around for a couple of years right? How many applications even make use of 2 cores currently? Much less 4+? It will be a long time before software catches up to hardware. I’d be willing to bet that the engineers at Intel & AMD find the point of diminishing returns for most applications is at 4 cores and resume the clock speed wars. You can split tasks up as much as you want, eventually it still needs to get done quickly.
Whatever, global warming and/or nuclear war is about to knock us back into the stone age anyhow.
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Sorry, i gave my opinion, my dicks not small enough to play with the big wiggs!
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So you have more than one penis, is that what you are saying? In any event, do you often say things without having any factual information to back it up? You will probably have an easier time convincing people to listen to you if you provided some factual information. To each their own, I guess.
Why Mac? They used to have some pretty decent technological advantages, and from what I hear OSX is a great OS. But now that they have the same technology as everyone else (Intel processors) is Mac OS really worth the premium you have to pay to get one with comparable hardware? Or am I wrong about them having the same hardware as everyone else?
It sounds like there’s no point to a 4 core processor for personal use yet, as software doesn’t make use of it. I would go the most cost effective dual core route.
But I haven’t really been keeping up with all this shit over the least year or two. Who has a good reason to go 4 core and/or Mac?
So you have more than one penis, is that what you are saying? In any event, do you often say things without having any factual information to back it up? You will probably have an easier time convincing people to listen to you if you provided some factual information. To each their own, I guess.
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I’m sorry, I was trying to help out answer the threads original question.
You guys can go name calling when I’m not around.
Does everyone on this bored have an attitude problem or something?
I’ve never seen more people so rude to eachother.
This thread went to shit. We have people asking for benchmarks for a non-existant cpu. People that think higher mhz means faster processor… Sighhhh
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Aparently you didn’t understand the reason for asking for them but whatever.
AMD is announcing the CPU in late August/early Sepetember so there had better be SOMETHING out there that they have benchmarked or they are REALLY behind…
I’m sorry, I was trying to help out answer the threads original question.
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And like I told you, if you have some factual information rather than just “Take my word for it”, people will be more inclined to indeed take your word for it…
I wasn’t trying to make fun of you, you said “dicks” like you had more than one. It was a joke that aparently didn’t even get off the ground. My bad.