> >Nah Steve, the Tbird doesnt have SSE just 3DNow, the Palomino has
enhanced
> >3DNow & SSE only not SSE2.
> >Cheers
> >Mark
> OK, my mistake sorry. Just went to AMD com and see I it is like this.
> XP cpu = 52 SSE instructions with SIMD integer and floating point
> additions offer excellent compatibility with Intel's SSE technology
Cheers
Mark
Opteron is the marketing name for the Clawhammer in it's SMP variant and
Sledgehammer cpu's
-JB
getting posts out of order here.. my news server kinda sucks donkley balls >:(
-JB
It's pretty much conjecture either way, the only people who really know (AMD)
aren't likely to say anything other than what they've already said.
-JB
Yup and as I'm getting tired of saying and you not accepting... The 1600XP
is not on average 10% faster, it's between 2% & 5% faster depending on
application which on average says about 3.5% faster.
Show me a site anywhere that claims that the Palimino is on average 10%
faster!
friendly)
Perhaps you would be kind enough to name those games where SSE optimizations
& the prefetch let the Palomino "scream out ahead" of the Tbird!
Yes and there are even more instances where it is no more than 2% faster &
you still havent explained why a 1500Xp is slower than a 1.4tbird, or are
you just hoping I will forget that AMD's naming convention doesnt seem to
tally.
Oh yes & I can *sigh* as well, *sigh*
See, you just elaborated on what you meant and now it makes sense... :)
(AGP 8x probably won't be all that useful btw, if the AGP2x to 4x jump is
anything to go by)
-JB
What nonsense are you blubbering now, the review uses 18 independant
benchmarks that include ones that use SSE including lame/3Dmark2001/divx
encoding how many other applications would you like to be benchmarked???.
On lame/divx the XP is about 10% faster but considering every other
benchmark is between 1% & 5% (icluding 3Dmark2001) it still doesnt tally
with your 10% on average claim.
> >It's the best but you won't buy it?
> >well THAT makes a whole lot of sense..
> >-JB
> I just told you why. Selective reading problem? Next mb I buy will
> have the excellent layout of that mb, but also have
> thermal protection and maybe even AGP 8X. Until I see such a mb I
> won't buy one. Abit SiS648 SR-7 is really close to that but has no USB
> 2.0.
Well you know, strange as it may seem, but sometimes news servers don't
update instantaneously halfway around the world whenever you've made a post.
I know the concept could be hard to grasp, but it is true! ;-)
No need to comment the obvious man, I saw your post too, AFTER I had sent
off mine. Like they say: "shit happens".
unless you compare x87 code and SSE code between them, where the SSE code will
be a hellishly large margin faster, this will PUSH THE AVERAGE UP
Do you know what "average" means?
-JB
Your the one making this personal, who's the troll again?
** ON AVERAGE **
bah, welcome to my killfile.
-JB
It struck me as odd that you were saying both "THAT BOARD ROCKS" and "I'M NOT
BUYING ONE" in the same post, Maybe I should stop reading usenet at 5am :)
You could go a lot further for bragging rights if you REALLY wanted them..
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/whitepapers/pow...
chip
;p
-JB
Oh you are the troll, you make statements you cant back up with figures,
deflect issues & choose to ridicule people when all else fails, although I
have ridiculed you I can at least back up my arguments & I also dont try to
deflect from the issue!!
Which you still havent proven, despite requests for proof.
Oh no whatever will I do now?
Hack VirtualPC to run on it :p
-JB
Just an FYI -
The K7S5A will not work stably with non-XP CPUs.
Symptoms are instability and worst - major data
corruption on hard disks. It's documented around
the net :
http://www.geocities.com/mrathlon2000/zp.html
This is due to incorrect resistors on the board
just inside the cpu socket. I was able to solve
the problem by soldering another surface mount
resistor on top to alter the total resistance
but definately one to avoid if you have a TBird
CPU and are scared of soldering your mobo. I have
since moved on to a 761 based board (ASUS A7M) and
it is excellent.
iksteh
