Recent content by savantu

The i920 I bought in 2008 and from which i'm typing this at the moment is probably the best CPU I've ever bought. It just hums along like a Caterpillar bulldozer ( pun intended ) through everything I throw at it. I still have a P4 540E ( that's Prescott based ) on socket 925XE with dual...

Back in the old school ( like 1995-2000 ) OC was done to get more performance for $, CPUs were slow, the new stuff really expensive. Nowadays, the difference between a $100 and a $999 in daily tasks is more or less impossible to tell if all you do is surf the web, office and a few movies. OC...

30% is like hitting the jackpot compared with GF's first attempt which produced 0 yield and the 2nd which gave 1-2 working dies per wafer.

Apparently, due to the power saving features in Win7, Winrar is taking a hit since it can't awaken HT logical cores : http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?p=138245 The difference is staggering for HT enabled CPUs and completely trounce the FX cpus...

How can you suggest an OC computer for Autocad work ?!

I've been using Intel IGPs since the i810 with 4MB VRAM. They are perfectly fine for office use and light desktop scenarios.

http://semiaccurate.com/2011/11/08/looking-at-the-amd-amid-layoffs-and-new-directions/ If this is true, Trinity will be roaring success...;)

To SB-E or not to SB-E, that is the question !!

To have a "programming degree" and post something like this : makes me wonder where you got your degree...Zimbabwe ?

If you think parallelism exists everywhere and is easy to extract, try eating with a spoon in each hand. Thread yourself yourself first.:D

?!?! That's set in stone. That will be fixed with a new uarch, 4-5 years from now. Until then, CMT is here to stay. That's out of the question on any sensible time horizon. And it's not about hand optimization. You need experienced people for that. Probably machines do it better than...

Well, naive wouldn't be a proper word, but is the closest I can think off. In a perfect world, what you'd say would work. In this real world however, anyone who operates a business knows that competition can be hard sometimes. I don't hold Intel's practices as significantly damaging...

And how much did Intel gain with D0 in stock frequency ? 200MHz ? You see, OC ability doesn't translate into equivalent headroom for new bins. Thirdly, D0 did nothing for IPC. Everybody is hoping BD will somehow magically get an IPC increase with a new stepping. Fourthly, BD gaining...

People have short memories and believe wonders will happen...Wait for Win8 in late 2012 or 2013 !:p Man..do yourself a favour and stop engaging in wishfull thinking. A new stepping can bring you 1-2% from tweaks, improve power consumption and yield better. But it won't fix a massive...

I find your entire BD experience as a journey into masochistic practices. :D