I noticed that some of the newer Intel i7 processors like 990X and some of the newer Xeon like E5690 use a separate memory bus from the I/O bus, and the memory business is run at extremely high speeds. Does support for this new memory bus technology require a special motherboard? -- W

Yousuf Khan wrote: On 11-05-13 11:03 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote: This is one of the biggest breakthroughs in integrated circuits since I don't know when. In 2020 we will have the equivalent of a pizzabox cluster rack on a single package the size of today's i7. Mind-boggling...

I am conducting research for an article and am trying to identify patents associated with key Intel products: - iAPX-432 family of chips and system 86/330 integrated microcomputer system (both introduced way back in 1981) - the 216A (a 64k RAM) - 386, 486, and Pentium Pro processors

AMD introduced 4 new Athlon 64 and FX models. However each one seems to be designed for three different types of sockets. Athlon 64 3500+ and 3800+ are designed for the Socket 939, while Athlon 64 3700+ is designed for Socket 754. Meanwhile are now two FX-53 models, the older one designed for...

AMD introduced the Athlon 64 today, and Microsoft was on hand to intro its 64-bit Windows too. Microsoft said that it will support both Intel and AMD 64-bit, but no more than that. I think what they are referring to when they talk about Intel 64-bit is Itanium, but no other 64-bit that Intel...

Some new Itanium info is out, http://goo.gl/vBg63 gives details on the eight core 32nm version of the chip just announced.

1) Is there any benchmark comparing Itanium and Opteron running a 32-bit chess software? 2) Is there any benchmark comparing Itanium and Opteron running a 64-bit chess software compiled for each processor?

Hello, Why is x86 badly designed ? * x86 hasnt enough registers. * x86 has variable length instructions, * x86 has mem to mem operands, * x86 has complex addressing modes, * x86 is backward compatible with useless features like "real mode" at boot, etc. x86 are CISC but RISC processors take more...

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/242 Larrabee: 16 Cores, 2GHz, 150W, and more... Friday 01st June 2007, 06:08:45 PM, written by Arun It is amazing how much information is out there in the wild, when you know where to look. TG Daily has just published an article partially based on a...

I will KILL George Bush Jr, Dick Cheney and FBI director Robert Mueller III, NSA director Keith Alexander, CIA director David Patraeus, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and National Intelligence director Dennis Blair. I am looking for a "FEW REAL WORLD HEROES" like myself (not the FICTITIOUS heroes...

I wanted to buy a pair of Xeon processors (2.4 or 2.66). There seem to be two kinds of those, each with a different code. One seems to be 1.495V and the other is 1.5v. Can I fit either one into Asus PC-DL motherboard ? I can't find any info on that. thank you for the help, Luke

I have the following: 1. Intel DH57JG motherboard 2. Intel Core I3-530 CPU 3. 2BG DDR3-1333 RAM I want up upgrade to a newer/faster system. Any ideas?

looks like dp31pr does not support vt fully as windows 2008 x64 complained it could not add the hyper-v feature as the required VT was not enabled or not supported by mainboard. Is there a setting BIOS I missed? On the other hand, Virtual server machines seem able to use hardware assist

I have a real-time app that runs on a P4. The box we are running it on has an Aopen i865PEa-7IF motherboard. We are using the On-Time RTOS. We have found that every 37 seconds the app completely stops running for 250 microseconds. Using a PCI bus analyzer we discovered that between the last...

The Pentium-M seems to be unusually superb, even going up against the ultimate gaming processors. GamePC - Dothan Revisted : Focusing On Gaming Performance http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=dothangaming&page=1 Yousuf Khan

hi all, can any one clarify below points, 1. can we access the Peripheral registers which are of size 255 bytes (memory-mapped) in real mode which consists of 1Mbyte of space only.. ? or we must access them in only protected mode ?

http://tinyurl.com/ydtq7k (nytimes.com) http://games.kikizo.com/news/200610/063.asp http://tinyurl.com/yadece (teamxbox.com) http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=68767 it seems Microsoft will try to design its own multi-core CPUs. the same thing was said shortly after Xbox1...

These are just some rumours from some stock talk groups and other sites, but if they're true, they will obviously necessitate readjusting your next computer buying decisions: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=20491978 http://www.overclockers.com/articles1096/ With, Intel's...

I was excited when I heard the news that the Xeon E7 chip would bring to the x86 platfom the kind of RAS features that had previously only been available for the Itanium (and, of course, other architectures like SPARC and IBM mainframes). However, currently, in looking for servers, I find that the...

Hello. In AMD, I used PowerNow to save power when idling in my old Debian/Linux box. Yesterday, I upgraded to an Intel Core 2 Q8200 (quad-core; default clock speeds; Socket 775 LGA) system. What do I use for it? This is mainly a workstation and acts as a private SSH2 server. Thank you in...