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- titansix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23...meets minimum system requirements for Windows Vista: Scooby Doo Edition.
- dave_colorado, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23why have billions of floating point operations when we can have....millions? (with pinky finger next to mouth)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Photoshop still takes 5 min to load...
- m.sandstorm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Suffering from high oil cost, No Problem! With the new processor you can heat your entire house!
- EricBoyers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15This computer would be great for my mom, solitare and email take far too long to open on her 3Ghz machine. I mean she is getting older now and every little second counts.
- RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I hear the CPU comes with a grill attachment for barbecuing. How long before our PCs need to be rigged directly to our home AC units?
- LaslarsFermion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Moores law originally refers to the number of transitors on the die. It was appropriated for MHz.
- martyf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Why I want a 15ghz machine? Maybe one day, with speeds like this, I'll have a computer that's faster than me. this is my dream, one where there's no perceptible lag between a click and the response. I want application to open as fast as I open a book page, I want screen redraws to be (perceptually speaking) instant. I want to convert files from MOV to MP4 as fast I can copy them. I never want to see an hourglass, a spinning pizza of death, a stuttering screen image, or a window that "populates" slowly.
I also want to be able to heat my lunch and toast marshmellows in the warm glow of my computer.
One day, your computer will have a door on it, and it will look much like this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002XGRCK/qid=1141756418/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-2694306-4624762?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=284507 - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I'unno man. We've been in this 3-4GHZ trap for a while now. I don't think Moore's Law is as applicable anymore. You can't have a linear progression on something like processor clock speed, especially when die size and heat dispersion are such big issues.
- dusingaz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13I just think of how funny this article will look in 10 years... 5.46ghz ha I've got a 546ghz now.
- modsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Finally a PC faster then my phone
- xodex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+710 years? I bet we won't even get to 15ghz by that time.
- Hubris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Vacuum pumps? You mean the phase-change cooling? The compressor is actually really quiet.....think about a new fridge. Most of the noise comes from the fan blowing through the condensor (radiator) to remove the heat from the refrigerant and put it into the ambient air. A system using Vapochill is easily within the normal range of desktop noise generated by a computer with a quality heatsink and fan for cooling. Of course the temps are an awful lot lower than aircooling...
- WillyWonka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Moores law is the number of transistors, not the amount of MHz/GHz.
- in4mation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7When they turned the machine on the lights dimmed at CeBIT ;-)
- mighty_mouth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12"640 K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
- cakefart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Be careful what you wish for- at that speed, your computer would leak X-Rays, not radio waves.
Not that I'm saying it's a bad thing.:-) - KillerX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Wow, I bet Word just screams on that beast and spyware must run at light-speed! :)
- JudgeDredd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I see. This is what I apparently need to run Vista.
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You guys do know that AMD has a superior CPU architecture for gaming, right? Intel reaches higher Gigahertz by using longer pipes, but with gaming, shorter pipes are a virtue due to inconstant data flow. Therefore, if you were to significantly OC, say an FX-60, you wouldn't even have to come close to 5GHz to beat out that Intel chip in gaming,
- DeadPain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Did you read the article?
"The jointly configured system based on, VapoChillr LightSpeed CPU cooling, WaterChillT graphics and motherboard chipset cooling, Kingston Technology HyperX KHX7200D2K2 DDR2 RAM, WD Raptorr X hard drives and Intel P4 3.8GHz CPU, forms the basis of the ultimate Dream Machine for PC enthusiasts and gamers." - trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's a joke but it has a shard of truth in it. Intel designed Netburst to come into its own at around 5 to 8 GHz. They laughed at AMD when the Athlon XP came out, with such a high IPC they knew it would never get up to 5 GHz. Well along came Thermodynamics and it turns out AMD was on the right track. FINALLY Intel is doing it AMD's way, and if they have their way, doing it better.
So in theory Netburst can trounce the A64, you just have to go to the planet neptune to get it cold enough ;) - SirNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hasn't the world figured out how truly little processor clock speeds mean? AMD chips (as well as IBM/Motorola) beat out Intel chips that are considerably higher clock speeds due to various inefficiencies of Intel's designs. Putting another 1ghz onto the current Intel designs won't truly speed it up a whole lot. I wouldn't be surprised if the fastest AMD chips still beat it performance wise.
- ascott9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"for Windows Vista: Scooby Doo Edition."
I wouldn't be suprised - CritterNYC, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Wow. An Intel chip running at 5.46GHz. Maybe it'll be as fast as an AMD chip now. :-)
... runs away... - headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Are you being sarcastic, or did you just not understand ericboyers joke?
- longman2g, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4software is ***** without the hardware to run it
- Erroneus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If adds makes you so sick, try Firefox with Addblock Plus 0.6.1.2 and Adblock Filterset.G Update 0.3.0.2
Does wonders :) - tecmec, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6rtfa, its a p4.
- worthawholebean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Clock speeds mean nothing. If you had a 4 transistor processor running at 3 terahertz, it still wouldn't be able to do anything.
- thewhitefedora, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Rolling on the freakin floor laughing
- lmbrjck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'd love to see the electric bill that thing would run up...
- matthewsr2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3case looks way too mass produced. they could have done a way better job with aesthetics!
for instance, they have those fancy clear top raptors in there, why not show em off!!?!?!? you can guarantee that if i laid down that much money for those drives, they'd be mounted where you can see the damn things spin up and the heads seek!
looks like they've only got a single graphics card in there too?!?!? what gives?!? couldn't get NVIDIA or ATI to throw them a few of the top of the liners? or would we reach critical mass at that point and incinerate the convention?
and whats this?!?!? a normal aluminum case spray painted! come on!! seems like the only thing they did was slap together a few top o the the line off the shelf components, and they expect it to be worshiped.
overall good hardware, just not a very pretty package to bundle it all in. - Dgen_X, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11so that means once AMD hits 4.5GHZ this one will be topped!
=P - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's already outdated.
- Chakz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes, Bill Gates did say that...It's well documented and I think there's a video of it too. But at the time, that was enough. It's just like someone today saying 60 mph is fast enough for anybody. Then in 100 years from now someone will bring it up because they go faster. Big Deal.
- SnakeO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Correct:
Instructions / Program * Clock Cycles / Instruction * Seconds / Clock Cycle - jjanousek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i thought The Dream Machine was a Maximum PC thing...
- leha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Moore's law not about frequency but about number of transistorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law . Moreover, AMD has shown to the world that Intel's gigacraps dont measure cpu's speed.
- matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't think Gates actually said that, but yeah, its stupid to ask "Why would anyone need a processor that fast?"
- RWVolkl158, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8But if it were AMD it would probably run a gigahert or two slower and run circles around it 0_o
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...and by the end of the exhibit it will be outdated technology.
- Barrie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3In ten years we will have at least one of the following things:
- Weird biological cpu's
- CPU's with magnetic fields instead of electrons
- Quantum computers
These things will be so fast that nobody would even care anymore about the speed. Then storage capacity and programming will be what makes computers hot or not. - cathode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm just going to keep my hopes up for the DNA-powered CPUs: That way If I overclock it and it fries, I can add some A-1 sauce and enjoy it as a nice healthy snack.
- mercuryswitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not trying to bash this article, but the same guy who dissected the Intel Core Solo Mac Mini and put in the Core Duo, has his desktop running at 6.12ghz
All I did was see the link in his sig on his forums where the upgraded Mac Mini was posted.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85757 - JudgeDredd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I believe MS has partnered with Samsung to develop a HDD paired with a flash drive so that you have a very fast boot speed, etc. http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/news/HardDiskDrive_20050425_0000117556.htm I read somewhere (perhaps on Digg) about flash drives failing after many uses. Other than that, this seems like a good idea.
- modsuperstar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I was kidding. People on Digg spend way too much time trying to prove each other wrong to catch onto subtle jokes. And Triffid, who posted below was correct, I got 2.4 and 5.8 ghz mixed up.
- ap3xlabs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2....i'd love to see what the video encoding/conversion times are on this.
does anyone on digg use their computer for anything OTHER than gaming? or is that the only benchmarks that matter here?
either way, impressive. - Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought intel locked the bus multiplier on all non "extreme edition" chips. This uses a plain old P4 3.8, right? Doesn't that mean they have to run the FSB and chipset at almost twice the rated speed?
- linnerd40, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A similar AMD based machine would still be faster. People over-rate the Ghz factor of a CPU WAY to much. A 2.4 Ghz AMD runs just as fast (or faster) as a 3.8 Ghz Pentium 4. I agree with seanami (^), it is the CPI that actually matters. It is a wonder that they managed to cool such a fast Intel chip, because it seems to me that Intel has a reputation of making rather *warm* CPUs.
Still, very impressing. -
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