Hi, Guest
You bought one? Why buy something that hardware-wise is ready for massively-parallel apps with the narrowest app field?
Oh, and it's 4-core / 8-threads per processor package. :P :ph34r:
It's the P4 all over again, literally, as their performance scaling from 4 threads to 8 per package is decent, suggesting that once again... Intel can't even keep their own instruction pipelines saturated at that clockspeed. Expect the heat dissipation and clock speeds to rise under further processor steppings and models. It's like buying a car with twin throttle bodies but having to do extra work to ensure that you unblock the airflow to the second throttle body in order for it to be of use to you. Only THEN are you making full use of the "engine"'s capabiltiies.
Still, if I had a whack of cash lying around... I'd build something Core i7-based.
And unless you're doing massive graphics work with it (3D or batched photo-processing)... you're hemorraghing money all over the floor right there. A complete waste of cash.
Now, if you were running BOINC and doing Rosetta@Home and SETI@Home, as well as CPDN... I'd give you a full acquittal. ;)
Core i7 info: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15818
:)
Oh, and it's 4-core / 8-threads per processor package. :P :ph34r:
It's the P4 all over again, literally, as their performance scaling from 4 threads to 8 per package is decent, suggesting that once again... Intel can't even keep their own instruction pipelines saturated at that clockspeed. Expect the heat dissipation and clock speeds to rise under further processor steppings and models. It's like buying a car with twin throttle bodies but having to do extra work to ensure that you unblock the airflow to the second throttle body in order for it to be of use to you. Only THEN are you making full use of the "engine"'s capabiltiies.
Still, if I had a whack of cash lying around... I'd build something Core i7-based.
And unless you're doing massive graphics work with it (3D or batched photo-processing)... you're hemorraghing money all over the floor right there. A complete waste of cash.
Now, if you were running BOINC and doing Rosetta@Home and SETI@Home, as well as CPDN... I'd give you a full acquittal. ;)
Core i7 info: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15818
:)
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33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.