06-20-2003, 09:17 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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new toys from Apple
So, it appears from what little I've read (you know how Apple legal is), that WWDC will hail hte announcement of new G5's! Someone, being the brilliant person that they are, accidentally uploaded one of the images early. here's the text:
1.6GHz, 1.8GHz, or Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 Processors Up to 1 GHz processor bus Up to 8GB of DDR SDRAM Fast Serial ATA hard drives AGP 8x Pro3 PCI or PCI-X expansion slots One FW800, two FW400 ports Bluetooth & Airport Extreme ready Optical and analog audio in and out Anyone saving up for a new plaything? (info care of Severed Hand of Skywalker of MacNN. Thanks SWG!) here's a piccie Last edited by cheerios; 06-20-2003 at 09:28 AM.. |
06-20-2003, 02:17 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Top Reason Not to Buy a Mac:
Just look at the prices in that screenshot
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06-20-2003, 07:24 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
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Plus the first batch of all new processors for any system are always more expensive. Check out the price on Intels higher chips.
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06-21-2003, 05:39 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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06-21-2003, 06:01 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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06-21-2003, 06:19 PM | #15 (permalink) | |
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if i put 2 athlon xp's together, i can get 6ghz or more worth of processing power (64bit amd's that is)
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06-21-2003, 06:21 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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I was simply saying that comparing mhz on a 32 bit chip vs a 64 bit chip is not a good comparison. Yes you can get 6 mhz out of your two processors and they will be faster at some tasks, I will not deny that.
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06-21-2003, 06:22 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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To give you a idea of this CPU's power. IBM PPC 970: SPECint2000 - 937 @ 1.8 GHz SPECfp2000 - 1051 @ 1.8 GHz Pentium IV @ 3.06 GHz: SPECint2000 - 1032 @ 3.06 GHz SPECfp2000 - 1092 @ 3.06 GHz Nearly the same performance at half the cycles and this is rev A of the chip vs a much more refinded PIV. |
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06-22-2003, 06:46 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
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06-22-2003, 07:42 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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Here's an analogy I use for dual processors
Dual processors are similar to highways. With a single processor its like having one truck obeying the speed limit. With dual processors, its like two trucks. They don't necessarily go faster than the speed limit, but they can move a lot more in a time period than a single truck (processor). This is true, if its a dual lane highway (software usage of dual processors). If the software only uses the one processor, it is like a single lane high way; the two trucks can't run parallel to eachother. Therefore, the second processor is useless if the software doesn't use it. Also, dualies aren't always good. Benchmarks have shown that Quake 3 with dual processors actually runs slower than a single processor of the same speed. weird Correct me if I'm wrong computer guru's Last edited by wakelagger; 06-22-2003 at 07:44 PM.. |
06-22-2003, 07:51 PM | #24 (permalink) |
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About the quake 3 thing. It all depends on how fast your dual processors are. In the days of dual P2's quake 3 with SMP enabled was a big performance booster. But if you enable it with your new Xeons then you arent going to see a boost. And when people say decline, they mean going from like 200FPS to in the 150's.
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06-23-2003, 10:57 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=13150
These systems sound sweet. Last I looked, a few minutes ago, the Apple store was off-line for updating. Time to replace my 5-year old G3, I'd say. Last edited by denim; 06-23-2003 at 11:03 AM.. |
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