February 2008 Hardware Roundup 67
Tom's Hardware has a nice roundup of some of the new shiny hardware for February '08. Everything from a screaming fast 2 GHz DDR3 to liquid cooled cases and back again. "Unlike previous Zalman cases that used a heat pipe assembly, the LQ1000 has a traditional water pump and flexible hose for connecting the case's sinks to CPU and graphics coolers. A passively-cooled finned side panel and fan-assisted rear radiator remove heat, while a lighted flow indicator shows the bottom-mounted pump in action."
Stop this. (Score:5, Informative)
Summary if you don't want to go through it all (Score:5, Informative)
- overpriced power supplies
- and 6 new DDR3 modules at varying frequencies
WARNING: Link is GNAA (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Stop this. (Score:5, Informative)
If you don't like it, get an ad-blocker, stop visiting those sites, or visit the printer friendly link.
It's 21 pages in 1:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/01/hardware_news_roundup_january_2008/print.html [tomshardware.com]
Just the opposite, I'm afraid. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Just the opposite, I'm afraid. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Big and bulky (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Big and bulky (Score:3, Informative)
Add an 802.11n USB dongle out the back (or traditional wired 100 Mb/s Ethernet), and you're golden.
Linux 2.6.23, alsa, xorg 7.1 with DRI, openchrome, xine --with-xvmc, and mythtv and you can render 1080i at anywhere from 40% (most streams) to (rarely) 95% (some particularly badly coded ones with lost of motion).
I just finished natively building (i.e. compiling from the sources themselves on the box itself) this starting from a stock Damn Small Linux install.
I'm trying to pare it down so it runs completely out of 512 MB RAM disk.
Re:But what're the hard facts on Latency? (Score:2, Informative)
Applying Amdahl's law here, if you want to reduce memory latency, you really want to increase your cache's hit rate or speed, for example by getting a processor with a larger cache or lower cache latency.