ATI Imageon and e740

[Guest]

Moose, you might be the one confused. We're trying to figure out the additional problem the e740 has that brings it performance to 50% of the SA in some specific applications. A problem other Xscale units don't seem to have. A problem that might be related to the fact that this Xscale unit has the ATI imageon.

[Jadam]

[James S]

[Guest]

All the other X-scales are around 95%-100% of the SA PPCs in multimeda and in general.

The e740 is more around 60% (inaccurate estimate)

[Robotbeat]

[Jadam]

[DillRye]

[R0B]

[nobody]

[sponge]

What.. the.. hell..

I'm confused now.

[Robotbeat]

And that's not normal for you? (looking at your avatar, sponge.)

[Robotbeat]

I doubt that Macs will be 2 GHz by anytime in 2003. Yes, I read that little "forecast" thing, too. And no, I don't think that it's realistic.

BTW, 64-bit isn't a subset in the Sledgehammer... It is also native.

I am a system integrator. I know how to get good deals... (Then again, so does anyone who knows how to use ...)

Ha! $1500 for a Sledgehammer processor!

More like $300, but I might save money and get cpus that are 10% slower and pay only $150...

Yeah, I was going to say Mandrake 9, but hey...

Why would I need to recompile? I'm sure someone else will do it for me, or at least test it. They include the SMP Linux kernel when you install most modern desktop Linux distros. And 64-bit Linux has been available for a long time, too. Where do you think AMD got their 64-bit OS for their first ever demo of the Hammer?

I refuse to buy a Mac. I will never do it. Well, if I ever buy a Palm (ha!), I might do anything... Like become a serial killer or something...

Anyways...

Seriously, Moose. I do know what I'm talking about. I just put together a dual processor Athlon MP 2-U rackmount NAS RAID server for the company I work for. (well... I only put one cpu in it... I picked the board because it had 64-bit PCI slots.) I also installed Red Hat on it and Windows 2k. It won't actually use those (I am testing the speed of the RAID device(s)), it will use a sort of embedded linux disk image.

What's this thread about, again?

[sponge]

Read the sig.. do NOT insult the flamboyant clown! *gets out the ball and chain*

[Guest]

Hey Mark!

I saw you yesterday at work but was going to a metting.

still on for tues?

[Jadam]

AMD is going to introduce the clawhammers @2ghz costing $800 per processor, and these are clawhammers not sledgehammers.

Apple WILL have 2ghz chips next year, 64bit also

plus actually, i want to get a used DEC Alpha system off of ebay anyways , why, dont ask i just like the 64bits and the power of these processors