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popper · 15-07-2006, 02:58

you might want to read the OS news linked story
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_i...0&threshold=-5
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After an 18-page in-depth review of Intel's new processor line, The Tech Report concludes: "After years of wandering in the wilderness, Intel has recaptured the desktop CPU performance title in dramatic fashion. Both the Core 2 Extreme X6800 and the Core 2 Duo E6700 easily outperform the Athlon 64 FX-62 across a range of applications - and the E6600 is right in the hunt, as well. Not only that, but the Core 2 processors showed no real weaknesses in our performance tests."

http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15189
"AMD executives said this week that they will promote its '4x4' enthusiast platform to counter the Core 2 Duo. AMD also plans to push a sort of 'performance number' into the market to redefine how consumers should think about power. The 4x4 platform will place two physical sockets on a motherboard, connected by AMD's Direct Connect architecture. Mounted on each socket will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, for a total of 4 cores. An eight-core '8X8' program will roll out in 2007."

i do wish they would put at least as good an SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) as the G4 PPC Altivec co-pro on the x86 though, its way past time, and the current sse2/3 dont cut it, were as the Altivec was 128 bit all the way through from day one (a very long time ago now) , there are moves to improve it, but that wont be seen anytime soon, we need a co-pro thats able to cope with the HD AVC MBAFF decoding/encoding without blinking in all the x86 cpu's.

15-07-2006, 02:58	#157
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: [Merged] 4.1 Ghz Dual Core Pentium 805 Monster you might want to read the OS news linked story http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_i...0&threshold=-5 " After an 18-page in-depth review of Intel's new processor line, The Tech Report concludes: "After years of wandering in the wilderness, Intel has recaptured the desktop CPU performance title in dramatic fashion. Both the Core 2 Extreme X6800 and the Core 2 Duo E6700 easily outperform the Athlon 64 FX-62 across a range of applications - and the E6600 is right in the hunt, as well. Not only that, but the Core 2 processors showed no real weaknesses in our performance tests." http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15189 "AMD executives said this week that they will promote its '4x4' enthusiast platform to counter the Core 2 Duo. AMD also plans to push a sort of 'performance number' into the market to redefine how consumers should think about power. The 4x4 platform will place two physical sockets on a motherboard, connected by AMD's Direct Connect architecture. Mounted on each socket will be an AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, for a total of 4 cores. An eight-core '8X8' program will roll out in 2007." i do wish they would put at least as good an SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) as the G4 PPC Altivec co-pro on the x86 though, its way past time, and the current sse2/3 dont cut it, were as the Altivec was 128 bit all the way through from day one (a very long time ago now) , there are moves to improve it, but that wont be seen anytime soon, we need a co-pro thats able to cope with the HD AVC MBAFF decoding/encoding without blinking in all the x86 cpu's.