[Rant] Pentium IV Prototype at 3.5 GHz | ANN.lu |
Posted on 29-Aug-2001 09:05 GMT by Christian Kemp | 41 comments View flat View list |
Solar (BAUD) wrote:
PPC vs x86, Intel vs AMD, believe me folks I´d like to see PPC rule the market, but this looks like x86 is here to stay. I think it´s interesting to see what will be tomorrow, even if it has little to do with Amiga today.
Yes, I know that GHz isn´t everything, but that´s a *lot* of GHz to make up for with superior (?) architecture...
From Heise Online:
"In the early morning, shortly after 8 AM local time, [Intel] presented a prototype of a 0.13µm Pentium-4 (Northwood), which - shortly - ran at 3.5 GHz.
On average, the IDF record breaking CPUs reach the market after roughly a year. The 2 GHz type that started production yesterday was also presented as a prototype on last year´s IDF. So we can expect the 3.5 GHz Pentium 4 in late summer 2002. In general, so Otellini, the architecture can be scaled up to 10 GHz."
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Posted by sutro on 02-Sep-2001 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 28 (Solar (BAUD)): :: No. If you count off the HW initialisation, which isn´t a factor of CPU or OS - AmigaOne´s will have to run through that just the same. A bare-bones Win98SE takes less than 20 seconds to boot, at least on my machine - haven´t had the opportunity (or time to kill) to do throughout testing on this.
Time to buy a new watch ;-) Seriously, start installing some programs and you will see the "great" Wind0w$ crawling at boot-time like an 040-AGA-based A1200 trying to run Quake. It's suprising how many consider adequent (some believe it is good !!!) an OS that gets slower everytime you install (NOT run in startup) a new program...
:: SCSI drives are either none the faster than IDE drives, or if they are, they spin at 10,000+ rpm - ever listened to one of these beasts?
I am afraid you are wrong. IDE drives are quite good in squential I/O but, in everyday use, be prepared for a lot more system bogging than SCSI. Provided of course that you are an (ex ?) Amiga user that is used to deal with many tasks simultaneously. |
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