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This is one of the most obnoxioius stories I've ever read:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

-Larry

... G5 is where the 64-bit action is   ;)

(No Intel or AMD CPU-powered machine beat ***iatech's 'Big Mac' G5
supercomputer on the Super rank - and that one has FEWER CPU's than
those ranked below and it wasn't even running real optimised code!   Now
that's something to think about, eh  ;)

Regards, Rudy
(GPLRank -21)

Talking about cluster with 11,000 CPU's isn't exactly relevent to this
discussion.
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Speaking of 64-bit, I just bought an Athlon 64 3200+ and it's great.
It also kills any Intel chip currently available, based on Tom's own
*** benchmarks from a few weeks ago.  I have no idea how anyone can
view AMD's move to 64-bit architecture as a bad thing when Apple, Sun,
IBM, HP, SGI, and Compaq have sold 64-bit systems for years.

I sometimes wonder if there isn't a gene that evolution somehow
isolated in north america which causes everyone to fear any sort of
technological advancement (or change in general, but that's a larger
issue).

Jason

Yea, when I saw the authors name, I remember thinking how North
American it sounded.

How can you stand living among all those people with funny sounding
names...?

l8er
ronny

I didn't realize North America had a lot of unique names.

Being from this continent I intended that as a jab at myself as well,
but I guess I forgot to mention that.

Jason

Feel free to share your other views on any other subjects you know
nothing about.
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My early experiences sucked, and that was mainly due to the VIA Chipset.

Then, the ABIT KG7, with the AMD chipset came out, and I was extremely
pleased.

The next time I wanted to upgrade, there was no AMD chipset available, so I
went back to Intel with an IT7-Max2, with a P4 2.53Ghz.  That is my current
machine, and I've been quite pleased with it too.

It's NOT the processor.  It's the Chipset and Motherboard that defines the
experience.

I am not in the least impressed with the new P4 Prescott Processors.  Intel
has gone back to the old game by lengthening the pipelines, which hinders
performance, just for the sake of opening up for future higher clock speeds.
They had to DOUBLE the cache just so the Prescott could match the
performance of the current P4's.

Not to mention the damned things run HOT.

So, my next upgrade may be an Athlon 64 3400.  Or it may just be a Northwood
P4 at 3.2.  I'd like to have a P4 3.2 extreeme, but at $1000 Intel is out of
their minds.  $600 more money  for what amounts to an extra 1MB of Cache is
outright thievery.

The choice of an Athlon 64 3400 may well be the choice simply because it's
the least offending to the mind.

That choice, of course, will depend on what Motherboards/chipsets will be
available.  If VIA is the only thing there is, it's going to take a hell of
a lot of convincing by people smarter than me that it's stable and
trouble-free.

-Larry

Jason

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

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