Author Topic: Which CPU are you waiting for? (Read 3444 times)

Grey Wolf · **on:** August 12, 2003, 02:14:08 am

I'm just wondering whether you all are waiting for Prescott or Athlon 64.

Stryke 9 · **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2003, 02:34:02 am

Pentium 17 with wormhole access to a Universe-sized mainframe processor in another dimension. Capable of rendering complex scenes of up to 2400000000000x180000000000 in realtime!

Odyssey · **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2003, 05:06:33 am

I very much appreciate the last option there - it's around what my laptop, the old critter that it is, has inside it. It's just about enough to run Alpha Centauri slightly jerkily, and that's enough for me.

vyper · **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2003, 05:58:04 am

Athlon 64, because it will be cheaper than the Prescott. Also because I don't like chips named after British Deputy Prime-Ministers.

Fineus · **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:00:24 am

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Originally posted by vyper
Athlon 64, because it will be cheaper than the Prescott. Also because I don't like chips named after British Deputy Prime-Ministers.

Amen!

Xelion · **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:00:32 am

AMD Opteron "Athens" (up to 8 processors on-board), power is greater than any other intel processor...

(duals and up ^o^)

AMD Athlon 64 "Odessa"

both processors are .09 micron/90nm which is awez

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:04:01 am

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Originally posted by vyper
Athlon 64, because it will be cheaper than the Prescott. Also because I don't like chips named after British Deputy Prime-Ministers.

Indeed. You won't be able to understand anything it says, and it will keep punching you.

vyper · **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:08:20 am

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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB

Indeed. You won't be able to understand anything it says, and it will keep punching you.

Xelion · **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:22:02 am

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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB

Indeed. You won't be able to understand anything it says, and it will keep punching you.

rofl

Hudzy · **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:28:42 am

Now I shall display my ignorance. What's a Prescott?

vyper · **Reply #10 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:46:59 am

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Originally posted by Hudzy
Now I shall display my ignorance. What's a Prescott?

A fat violent politician.

Solatar · **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2003, 08:54:57 am

And all politicians aren't fat and violent?

Petrarch of the VBB · **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2003, 08:56:55 am

Some of them are just stout and agressive.

Grey Wolf · **Reply #13 on:** August 12, 2003, 11:33:46 am

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Originally posted by Max
AMD Opteron "Athens" (up to 8 processors on-board), power is greater than any other intel processor... (duals and up ^o^)

AMD Athlon 64 "Odessa"

both processors are .09 micron/90nm which is awez

San Diego is the 90nm desktop core w/ Socket 939 and dual DDR. Odessa is the mobile variant.
To tell you the truth though, I actually like the look of Paris/Victoria better. Although they only have single channel DDR, they'll be much cheaper, most likely.

ZylonBane · **Reply #14 on:** August 12, 2003, 11:53:33 am

I'm waiting for the ATHALON.

I keep hearing great things about this chip, but haven't seen one for sale yet!

Liberator · **Reply #15 on:** August 12, 2003, 03:16:50 pm

Not until September IIRC.

vyper · **Reply #16 on:** August 12, 2003, 05:54:39 pm

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Originally posted by Liberator
Not until September IIRC.

Flipside · **Reply #17 on:** August 12, 2003, 06:38:41 pm

Whatever happened to the Hammer?

And as for a chip called Prescott, once you include depreciation, inflation and the price of keeping troops in the Gulf, I'll be surprised if you could play lemmings on it

Flipside.

Mebbe it's nickname is 'TwoBusses'?

Grey Wolf · **Reply #18 on:** August 12, 2003, 07:24:37 pm

Hammer = Clawhammer and Sledgehammer
Clawhammer = Athlon 64
Sledgehammer = Opteron

And Prescott is the code-name for the new Intel core. 3.4 GHz and 100w+ of heat that needs to be dissipated by your poor little heatsink

Flipside · **Reply #19 on:** August 12, 2003, 07:27:39 pm

Thanks for the clarification

Ok, mebbe we should call the Prescott '2 Fans' then

Flipside

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