I predict that the Barcelona will win in highly threaded benchmarks (server apps) but lose to X2 in single threaded benchmarks (desktop apps).
I predict that Barcelona uses 50% more letters than Athlon.
Must be a Northwood. yuk yukSo, you want predictions do you.
The next time you go out in the woods, you will be hit by a branch. You know my prediction is right, because I got it off my P4, and everyone knows how good they are @ branch prediction!
Especially when the one being pedantic is wrong. 9/6=1.5..50%Uhh... One hates to be pedantic... but barcelona is nine letters, and athlon is 6... So the percentage is actually 66.66%. (truncated due to lack of space)
OK, so holding barcelona/athlon as an example, it is still only one third more letters... Hence only .66 better. Depends on oxen and goring.... (And statisticians, of which I am not.) OK, a solipstistic argument.?
I predict that Barcelona uses 50% more letters than Athlon.
And I disagree with your prediction because the CEO of AMD has already stated that he speculates that he knows that he expects a 50%-70% preformance increase from K8L over a Core 2 Quad.
Uhh... One hates to be pedantic... but barcelona is nine letters, and athlon is 6... So the percentage is actually 66.66%. (truncated due to lack of space)
I predict that Barcelona uses 50% more letters than Athlon.
I predict that Barcelona uses 50% more letters than Athlon.
And I disagree with your prediction because the CEO of AMD has already stated that he speculates that he knows that he expects a 50%-70% preformance increase from K8L over a Core 2 Quad.
I have no doubt that AMD will come back strong, but there's no way they are going to get that sort of performance increase. I would bet my yearly salary on that.
-The String
So what you are doing is essentially trying to put words into his mouth and drive is conclusion rhetorically to something completely different from what he stated.... this is your typcial style of posing an argument... and it is ineffective....
BTW --- did you know that the 4x4 Asus dual socket 1207 motherboard does in fact support 8 gigs of memory .... what are you waiting for Baron, all your excuses are gone --- 8 gigs of memory and Vista is out.... what are you waiting for? Whip out Mr. CreditCard and give him something to do....
Baron --- why are you looking at ibuypower anyway, why don't you build it yourself....
Jack
Went to that site ... ibuypower, and did not see anything on the 4x4 in general, but did not really look...
Let me guess, you called them up and asked -- can I get 8 gig with it.... and they probably told you no, and probably passed off some BS that it doesn't support it.... you are getting the run around.
Did you actually call AMD and ask --- do your 4x4 64-bit CPUs only support 4 gigs? I am sure they will laugh at you.
Tell me Baron, just what is it about the IMC on AMD's 64-bit FX-74 that will not support > 4 gigs? You do realize that the memory supported is not dictated by anything other than the IMC/CPU in the AMD platform ---- the chipset has nothing to do with it.
Baron --- why are you looking at ibuypower anyway, why don't you build it yourself....
Jack
'Athlon' uses 33% fewer letters than 'Barcelona', and 'Barcelona' uses 50% more letters than 'Athlon'. It's a simple fraction thing, not a 'perspective thing':
Taking 'athlon' as the base:
9/6 = 3/2 = 1.50 = 150% = 50% increase
Taking 'barcelona' as the base:
6/9 = 2/3 = 0.67(to 2dp) = 67% = 33% decrease
You'd have thought basic maths would be the forte of computer geeks, but alas nay.