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I do. I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop.
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Is the Core 2 Duo processor any good as it says in the marketing ads.
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no real bench mark. But I once ran the same application written by myself to parse XML and do some file I/Os. It's slightly faster on my dual core laptop (1.8G) than on my desktop single core Dell GX520(3GH). -- modified at 4:13 Friday 18th August, 2006
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yes i have used it and its good.
-Prakash
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No. I'm for AMD... :-D
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Me too. We've an Athlon X2 5000 machine arriving here next week, and we've been stockpiling hard drives * in preparation.... :cool: The system drive is going to be swappable so we can experiment with different OSs as required.
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Me too. We've an Athlon X2 5000 machine arriving here next week, and we've been stockpiling hard drives * in preparation.... :cool: The system drive is going to be swappable so we can experiment with different OSs as required.
Anna :rose: Currently working mostly on: Visual Lint :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Athlon X2 5000
X5? Would you mean X2, maybe? :-D Nevermind, you corrected it already. :) -- modified at 4:59 Friday 18th August, 2006
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Intel is competative again, which is good, instead of getting their arses kicked. They are good, but right now, as far as most users are concered, look at the price. The Athlons are still fast and power efficient. If you have a dire need to have the fastest gaming machine, then you will want the top one with a top end ATI crosfire, but for more general dev use, look at how much you are spending. With AMD not being able to command the lead they have had anymore, the Athlon prices have halved. They are now very good value for money. In all its good news for consumers. In all there is a lot of hype, just because their new CPU's trounce Intels Netburst achitecture old ones so much.
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Athlon X2 5000
X5? Would you mean X2, maybe? :-D Nevermind, you corrected it already. :) -- modified at 4:59 Friday 18th August, 2006
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I've only just woken up, so the occasional typo is to be expected! :rolleyes:
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Intel is competative again, which is good, instead of getting their arses kicked. They are good, but right now, as far as most users are concered, look at the price. The Athlons are still fast and power efficient. If you have a dire need to have the fastest gaming machine, then you will want the top one with a top end ATI crosfire, but for more general dev use, look at how much you are spending. With AMD not being able to command the lead they have had anymore, the Athlon prices have halved. They are now very good value for money. In all its good news for consumers. In all there is a lot of hype, just because their new CPU's trounce Intels Netburst achitecture old ones so much.
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Particulary, Devs need fast RAM, fast RAM and fast RAM, Cache, Cache Cache, and an uncrippled CPU. And lost of USB plugs for all the toys :)
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Me too :)
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Why?
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Why?
cheers, Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Why?
Obviously cause Intel sucks, just like Microsoft. Anyway, I currently have an AMD, so I suppose I should have posted a me too message.
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yes i have used it and its good.
-Prakash
Om.
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eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Yes, works great
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Why?
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Particulary, Devs need fast RAM, fast RAM and fast RAM, Cache, Cache Cache, and an uncrippled CPU. And lost of USB plugs for all the toys :)
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Linkify! || Fold With Us! || sighistBoth the new AMD's and Intel have large caches, compared to the past. The Intel have a larger one right now, as its main memory performance sucks. Its why Intel still gets its arsed kicked in 4 processors and above. As the AMD's have much lower latency memory access due to the on CPU memory controller, they don't need quite as much cache. It just has very fast main memory access, that scales as part of a NUMA architecture. One thing the DEC alpha boys new how to do to great effect. Expect to see onboard memory controllers on Intel chips with NUMA in about 2 years. The old netburst P4's were bad for dev machines as the CPU pipelines where around 30 stages deep. Its why the very old Athlons (3-4 years) were as fast or faster that the last P4's when compiling. Compilers are about the worst apps for branch prediction on CPU's. :) The Athlons have gone from 8 stages to 14 in the current generation. The new Conroe/Woodcrests etc have 14 or 15 stages I think, and is one of the things that makes them so competative, even though to clock speeds are a lot lower than the P4's. When you get a branch prediction miss around an if statement, the whole pipe lines of predicted instructions gets srapped, and long pipelines take a while to get going again. So the P4 when it got up to speed could crunch a lot, but did not like conditions or jumps, where as for the newer processors, it takes them less time to get the pipeline working again.
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