octo core 8 duo, quad 8950gx2 sli nothing compared to this!

Ranman68k

Distinguished
Dec 19, 2006
255
0
18,780
Concerning the thread title...

Is the Core 8 Duo out already? What happened to Core 3, Core 4, Core 5, Core 6, and Core 7? :lol:
 

Hex

Distinguished
Apr 13, 2004
119
0
18,680
I'd be willing to spend $9,000,000 on a PC to play Soldier of Fortune 2 at 1 billion frames per second. :D :roll:
 

knowsitall

Distinguished
Dec 19, 2006
377
0
18,780
It says there using 5000 series Xeons, i wonder how fast it would be if they used woodcrests?

yah! this sucks we all sit around with these shitty desktops while the government and the russians sit around on these top secret computers that would max out 3dmark06 with 999999999. this is bull, consumer gets the sharp side of the stick.... i just did the math that damn super computer litterally uses 19,300 processors!! and nine tenths of them are 5000 series xion's!! wtf! imagine the cpu test on 3dmark 06 with that many cores!! sure as hell wont skip! kill me!
 

Dahak

Distinguished
Mar 26, 2006
1,267
0
19,290
It's an extremely specialized computer that has no practical applications in todays world other than what it was deigned for.

Dahak

AMD X2-4400+@2.6 S-939
EVGA NF4 SLI MB
2X EVGA 7800GT IN SLI
2X 512MB CRUCIAL BALLISTIX DDR500
WD300GIG HD
ACER 22IN WIDESCREEN LCD 1600X1200
THERMALTAKE TOUGHPOWER 850WATT PSU
COOLERMASTER MINI R120
 

virtualban

Distinguished
Feb 16, 2007
1,232
0
19,280
A collaborator of mine has asked me at least 4 times what is the difference between Dual Core and Core 2... I had to give him a P4 example to make it clear (or at least hope so), renaming it from a Pentium D to a Pentium 4 Duo :)
 

virtualban

Distinguished
Feb 16, 2007
1,232
0
19,280
Dahak said:
It's an extremely specialized computer that has no practical applications in todays world other than what it was deigned for.

Dahak

I'd like to do weight lifting with, that's a practical use, ain't it? :)
 

virtualban

Distinguished
Feb 16, 2007
1,232
0
19,280
There was a joke once: which one is better, a newspaper or a TV set? - given PC have surpassed both of them in almost every way, we can say: in what way a newspaper is better than a computer?
Well, living in Albania has it's answer in power outages, but the general answer is about killing flies.
 

apt403

Distinguished
Oct 14, 2006
2,923
0
20,780
in what way a newspaper is better than a computer?

Um....There good for starting fires. If you burn newspaper nobody will care, but if you burn a comptuer many people will cry tears of blood.
iconcryqo3.gif