No animals were harmed in the making of those flops.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
Do you mean flops as in going to fail? Or flops as in processing cycles. I can't tell.
I believe that he may be referring to the server hamsters; no hamsters were harmed with running at that high of a speed. Luckily, none of the hamsters were fat, and therefore did not fall over from heart attacks, etc. 
I find your lack of signature disturbing.
what am I going to do w/ all these cores!?
Can't wait for one in a laptop.
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I'm interested in how GPUs and CPUs will be used by games more than anything else, because it will allow individual parts of the game to have a single processor devoted to it which will be awesome.
16 cores could be useful to me when doing 3D rendering. Not much else as most stuff not build for multithreaded stuff.
I can see people who are building virtual machine servers wanting these though.
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It's an Opteron, designed for servers. Unless the games are designed to use the extra cores it is a waste. Clock speed counts more in games.
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound
Only 16?
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When they can do that ON THE LAPTOP alone, then it'll be impressive. Rendering the frames on 4 other computers and sending them to the laptop to be displayed makes the laptop nothing more than a glorified monitor.
Not to say the idea itself isn't pretty cool. Done properly it'd bring a whole new level of graphical quality to gaming. I don't expect there to be consumer processors capable of handling stuff like that for at least 10 years and gaming companies probably won't use the tech for at LEAST another 5 after that.
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Let me know when programmers take advantage of even quad cores 75% of the time. As far as I know, there have only been a few titles to take advanatage of more than 2 (first ones that come to mind are the CoD series.)
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When they can do that ON THE LAPTOP alone, then it'll be impressive. Rendering the frames on 4 other computers and sending them to the laptop to be displayed makes the laptop nothing more than a glorified monitor.
Not to say the idea itself isn't pretty cool. Done properly it'd bring a whole new level of graphical quality to gaming. I don't expect there to be consumer processors capable of handling stuff like that for at least 10 years and gaming companies probably won't use the tech for at LEAST another 5 after that. |
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