Intel vs. AMD

Japan wants to reclaim the processing laurels from the US with a supercomputer 75 times faster than today's champion


Government officials in Japan said on Monday that they are planning to build the world's fastest supercomputer, according to a report in The Japan Times on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology expects to complete the system by 2010, when it will run at a maximum speed of 10 petaflops — 10 quadrillion floating-point operations a second. The current record holder is the IBM supercomputer Blue Gene/L, which at 137 teraflops is around seventy times slower.


http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/emergingtech/0,39020357,39210640,00.htm

 

Wow, interesting stuff. Nice to know they licensed it. I wonder when we're going to start seeing the real implications of that.

 

AMD Four core

 

ATI are currently saying they don't intend to make quad crossfire as there's no market for it.

 

I haven't really been following it. I just saw the article in engadget and thought it would be good for discussion. CD.
EDIT>If they do, I know what my next frankenstein will be built on.

 

a quad setup is maybe a little over the top huh guys lol!!!

anyone else getting this on the banner ads to the right in the post my Trend Mirco seems to be blocking them

TREND MICRO PC-cillin Internet Security 2006




The Web site that you are trying to access has been blocked following the

 

I see no banner ads. I use no security software whatsoever, pretty much.

 

@aabbccdd,
no banner ads here either.

 

I had the same issues when using TM PC-Cillin 2005 with IE. I switched to FireFox about a week ago, and will not be going back. With Adblock, you rarely see any banner adds. I don't get the this page not shown stuff either.

 

@Nephilim,
Glad you found them interesting.

 

does anyone know how to oc a prescott?

 

Seems you have!

Nephilim, which way round do you have your Freezer 64 Pro facing? I'm trying to decipher which way round it's going to end up, I've seen every which way in reviews of it in system builds.

 

@sammorris,
Depends on your board?
Point any airflow to the most beneficial area of your mainboard.
IE:dont blow any of the exhausted air from your cpu cooler straight out of your case.The more circulation of air inside your case the better.
Especially if your room temperature is lower than your average cpu temp.
I have 3 fans, 1x12cm top of case,and 2x9cm fans in each side of the case all sucking air into the case as the room temp is around 10 degrees celcius here.

 

Hmmm, it already has fins to blow air over the power regulators. I suppose I want it blowing in the direction of the memory and things like that, so I want it facing sideways.
The board's going to be an A8N-SLi SE

 

@sammorris,
Cool,I will go with the tuniq 120,although its way heavy,with a brace it should be ok.I just want maximum cooling as Iwould love to see this 3800 at 3GHZ!!!

 

Tbh I don't think it'd be heat stopping you from getting that chip to 3Ghz. As long as you're not using the stock cooler, you'll be fine for anything with an X2, it's a question of memory, mainboard, and voltage tweaking.

 

@sammorris,
The mainboard isnt an issue,
more settings than a jumbo jet.Voltages on tap.
The memory is where Im lacking.

 

As expected. Value Select? That can do 20%, then after that yes, you may want XMS PC4000.

 

@sammorris,
Yes,unfortunately value select was the extent of my upgrade.
I,ll get the cooler first,then the memory.