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Mark J. Dulcey wrote: > Intel quads only offer so-so scaling, 4 cores are still better than two > if you can keep them all working. (On the other hand, the faster > dual-core will probably be better for gaming; an E6750 for $190 or an > E6850 for $280 look sweet.) AMD's new Barcelona will scale better, but > the baseline single-core performance isn't as high except perhaps in that > scientific computing, because its floating-point performance is very high. Yup. I just bought a E6750 (still in-flight). I'm ever-so-slightly regretting it, because further research showed me that the 1333 front side bus is a bit of a funny numbers game (sorry I can't find the link), and there's only a very minor performance improvement, but more importantly, it's severely limiting my already-limited selection of motherboards. Picking a motherboard, more than any other component, has been way too much like dating for me. I found a great motherboard (Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P), then newegg said it was out of stock til 10/01 (and most other vendors reported it as out of stock too). But now it's just listed as out of stock. Nevermind... My problem is that I need 1333 FSB (for the E6750), but I also need a serial port (for my IR tranceiver), 3 PCI slots (1 for eth1, 1 or 2 for PVR-350 capture cards), and SATA RAID. I did find one serial card with a PCI Express x1 interface with a chipset that supposedly works with Linux, so maybe I can get away with no serial port. Or I could buy a USB-based IR tranceiver that will work with lirc. And I guess I can use software raid instead of hardware raid. I swear this is more stressful than actually building the box and installing Linux. > Intel will have true quad-core processors (four cores on one chip rather > than two chips in an MCM) next year, and those will be faster and scale > better. But isn't that always the way? True that. But more and more, I find the "new shiny thing" is better at some things and worse at others. The "win-win" is rarer and rarer. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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