Author Topic: Holy Sh@T! (Read 451 times)

Wanker · « **on:** January 18, 2002, 12:41:05 PM »

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020117/index.html

Ripsnort · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2002, 12:46:47 PM »

I can remember getting a woody when I went from a 286 to a 486!

(And for a meager price of $3000, CPU and MB alone)

Wanker · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2002, 12:48:23 PM »

Gee Rip, I can remember getting a woody when I started dating this eighth grader when I was in seventh gr.....erm, nevermind!

Staga · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2002, 01:15:48 PM »

Hehe banana... How about Quake 3 with 3500MHz P4 ?

http://www.muropaketti.com/artikkelit/cpu/northwood2200/ln2/index.phtml

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 18, 2002, 04:16:08 PM »

I read that article last night. It is impressive, and shows just how easily it will be for Intel to scale to 3 Ghz. AMD is going to have a tough time matching Intel until they can shrink the Athlon down to .13 micron and get it's clockspeed up. I'm not expecting this until April at the earliest, and I doubt any real quantity of processors will be available until June or July. (AMD also has an entirely new CPU core set for a late 2002 release - codename "hammer".)

The only thing odd about those benchmarks is that in many cases it appeared the 800 Mhz jump in clockspeed did not translate into as big of a performance boost as would be expected. That tells you that something is bottlenecking the system. It's likely that before the P4 really gets to 3 Ghz you are going to see some changes in other system components to resolve those issues.

Aurelius · « **Reply #5 on:** January 18, 2002, 04:37:35 PM »

IBM has been past 10 GHZ for a while now.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/15376.html

Camel · « **Reply #6 on:** January 18, 2002, 06:19:13 PM »

yeah I saw that!

I was shocked at how low it was scoring! Like Bloom said, must be a bottle neck (Gf3???266ddr???).

It was nice to see the Northwod @ 133fsb+, and thought that along with its larger cache it would have lit those tests on fire at 3000+. Would liked to have seen this done after Nvidia's new releases, and faster ram settings. Hopefully we will

soon!

-ammo- · « **Reply #7 on:** January 18, 2002, 06:24:40 PM »

Yep that is strange. I was looking at their 3D2000 and 3D2001 scores snf many 1400 mh users that frequest this bbs scored higher than they did. Looking at the specs, it seems strnage. Their machine was stout.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #8 on:** January 18, 2002, 06:34:11 PM »

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IBM has been past 10 GHZ for a while now.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/15376.html

That's an anouncement of a roadmap for 10GHz.

Hell Intel has those too.

I think IBM is going to focus on breaking 1 GHz before they get that ambitious.

AKDejaVu

Camel · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2002, 07:32:30 PM »

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Originally posted by -ammo-
Their machine was stout.

Not sure about that Ram wise. More robust ddr solutions are availabe. My 333ddr is @ 396mhz, a much closer match to the p4. If I understand the article their ram along with other stuff (PCI, AGP) was running at nearly spec with the 133fsb+. I would guess the 266 was near 270ish. I could be all wrong, I should go back and reread it. I will, but I'm totally rockin out to "Houses of the Holy"(The Rain Song) on some Logitech Z560's at the moment!!!!

hehe DejaVu

-ammo- · « **Reply #10 on:** January 19, 2002, 06:11:37 PM »

Deja, all of their test machines were stout, the AMD machines and the intel ones. All the scores in their 3d test were in scale it seemed with the 3 Gh machine out front. They all used Geforce 3 cards which is the key to scoring high in the mad onion BM's. I was just wondering why some AH users had scores that were on average higher than the same setups in their BM.

I dunno.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #11 on:** January 19, 2002, 09:53:49 PM »

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Originally posted by -ammo-
Deja, all of their test machines were stout, the AMD machines and the intel ones. All the scores in their 3d test were in scale it seemed with the 3 Gh machine out front. They all used Geforce 3 cards which is the key to scoring high in the mad onion BM's. I was just wondering why some AH users had scores that were on average higher than the same setups in their BM.

I dunno.

Why is this adressed to me? I only said IBM doesn't have a 1 GHz much less a 10 GHz.

AKDejaVu