like i'm talking brand new fastest processor that is available today

money dont mean shit

9/30/2005 8:21:29 AM

PIII

9/30/2005 8:24:04 AM

is that that new dual thing?

9/30/2005 8:26:07 AM

You haven't heard what a PIII is? I have a computer w/ one that I'm willing to sell.

My sarcasm meter is probably on the fritz but here goes:

PIII = welcome to 5 years ago.

9/30/2005 8:32:34 AM

oh he meant pentium 3, i naturally dont try to be a douche so i thought his answer may have some merit

[Edited on September 30, 2005 at 8:35 AM. Reason : seriously whats the fastest you can buy?...like i wanna get 2 dual 3.0 ghzes cause thats 6ghz]

9/30/2005 8:34:25 AM

this crazy thing is over $1k
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80729

9/30/2005 8:40:48 AM

I think pentium calls their new chip the "Pentium D" I have also seen a "Processor Extreme Edition" both run near 3GHz and have dual processors with a FSB of 800MHz.

I kinda lost track when they stopped using the numbers (2,3,4).

^

Quote :

"Quantity Limit 20 Per customer"

Crud. I planned on buying 21



[Edited on September 30, 2005 at 8:44 AM. Reason : ^]

9/30/2005 8:42:06 AM

Haha I thought was the kind of everything after I got a 300 mhz Pentium II in like 1995.

9/30/2005 9:15:12 AM

athlon64 4800+ (x2 1mb cache fx55 cores)
or
3.4ghz EE 2mb cache

9/30/2005 9:18:14 AM

AMD Dual Core Opteron 275

9/30/2005 10:25:29 AM

itanium 2

9/30/2005 10:39:10 AM

The top two fastest computers in the world use PowerPC processors to reach speeds of 183.5 TFlops.

(183 trillion floating point instructions per second peak.)

Of course, it is an array of over 65,000 processors (PowerPC 440; 700 MHz; 2.8 GFlop/ea)

http://www.top500.org/sublist/System.php?id=7605
http://www.top500.org/sublist/System.php?id=7466

9/30/2005 10:48:47 AM

Really tho. I'd like to know what cpu is fastest out of all of them out there.

And i dont mean out of just the consumer retail deals.

I mean like including the custom proprietary stuff and the really high end expensive as balls shit.

9/30/2005 11:04:08 AM

Fastest how? Pure clock speed, computing power, what? This isn't a simple question. It's like asking what's the best car? Their all different from each other. Therefore, you need some kind of qualifier to better define what you're looking for.

9/30/2005 11:16:21 AM

i think the highest i heard was like 3.4 ghz once

9/30/2005 11:17:58 AM

fastest FLOPS-wise

9/30/2005 11:27:29 AM

Quote :

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

9/30/2005 11:28:32 AM

P-D are okay, but if you have read up on some of the current news. One Intel's Officers (Maybe CEO) admitted that they rushed out the D's to compete with the X2's from AMD and their performance is suffering.


If money is no object get an AMD X2 FX or whatever their top of the line is. Should cost you almost 1K. If you prefer intel just go get the P-D extreme.

9/30/2005 11:33:03 AM

Those AMD Athlon 64 dual core x2 4800's are pretty flippin fast

9/30/2005 11:38:58 AM

My uncle was a lead designer for PowerPC processors at IBM. That is until they got stupid and sold the division off.

9/30/2005 11:49:26 AM

Quote :

"he top two fastest computers in the world use PowerPC processors to reach speeds of 183.5 TFlops."

heh, a significant majority of the top 25 too.

9/30/2005 1:21:51 PM

^ yes.

Its funny that Stein laughs, since PowerPCs are behind the planets fastest computers. They are extremely good at working in clusters. It is a generally fast and efficient archetecture.

9/30/2005 2:21:58 PM

cell

9/30/2005 2:27:24 PM

Quote :

"Its funny that Stein laughs, since PowerPCs are behind the planets fastest computers. They are extremely good at working in clusters. It is a generally fast and efficient archetecture."

Quote :

"like i'm talking brand new fastest processor that is available today"

I'm laughing because I know how to read.

The question is about the fastest processor on the market today, not what sort of clustered super computer you can build.

If you want the fastest processor, get the top of the line AMD or Pentium.

9/30/2005 2:31:04 PM

my computer is a dual processor Intel Xeon 3.2GHz server, its fast enough for work

9/30/2005 2:33:59 PM

there are oscilloscopes out there that can sample at rates way over 20 GHz...

frequency means jack shit.

look at another metric like instructions per second - although that's not good metric either

9/30/2005 2:36:45 PM

^^ It was more of an aside really.

He said money wasn't an issue.

9/30/2005 2:53:22 PM

Well if money wasn't an issue the same number of itanium 2s or other expensive and powerful chip in a cluster would destroy the current leaders.

9/30/2005 3:12:56 PM

i just need something that can play duke nukem

9/30/2005 3:34:36 PM

youll need quantum technology for that

9/30/2005 3:41:14 PM

I heard that all copies of Duke Nukem Forever will come with 1024 Xeon boxes Confirm/deny?

9/30/2005 3:47:04 PM

^^ yeah ... time to break out THE BIG BOY





[Edited on September 30, 2005 at 3:50 PM. Reason : +1]

9/30/2005 3:50:04 PM

haha man back in the day i remember our computer had only 24 mb of ram(got a p1 75mhz in 1994) and when i read the min requirements it was like 16mb's so i BEGGED my mom to get it

9/30/2005 3:53:22 PM

Itanium 2 isn't necessarily all that... that huge cache has a pretty high latency (12-13 cycles for the majority of I2's cache, versus 7 for Opteron)... it shares its FSB in most configurations, whereas each Opteron has its own dedicated memory controllers and HT channels... x86-32 emulation of I2 is, shall we say, glacial, when compared with Opteron in any of its x86 modes... there's a reason I2's niche is getting smaller and smaller, and it isn't exemplary performance

9/30/2005 3:55:18 PM

8086 or 8088

those rule

9/30/2005 7:09:36 PM

Quote :

"s that that new dual thing?"

you use your computer enough to have over 40k posts but dont know what a P3 is?

9/30/2005 8:23:02 PM

you need a computer with a Turbo button

9/30/2005 10:19:04 PM

our new server at work uses quad xeons. its fairly fast

9/30/2005 10:41:06 PM

the P4 670 (or is it 680) is a 3.8ghz with 1mb cache (single core but 64bit capable) and only costs around $500 i think from new egg.

fastest dual core is the 4800+ which is a 2.4ghz (AMD clock specs) with 1mb l2 cache x2 and a FSB of 1000ghz.... (what i got in my rig)

10/1/2005 4:52:40 AM

Quote :

"you need a computer with a Turbo button"

What the crap where those supposed to do anyways?

10/1/2005 10:40:54 AM

ok this is what i never understood

if i go ahold of like 20 p2 700mhz chips why couldnt i just connect them all together and have a really fast computer then?

10/1/2005 10:46:40 AM

There is no computer capable of supporting 20 processors at the same time, Pentium 2s are not multi-processor compatible, and you still need a multi-processing operating system (i.e. not Windows XP Home Edition) to see any difference.

[Edited on October 1, 2005 at 11:06 AM. Reason : oh, and the fastest P2 was 450MHz.]

10/1/2005 11:04:13 AM

it depends on what you want to do. If you are a gamer, AMD FX-57 is the fastest in the world right now. If you multitask a lot or video edit, I would say the AMD X2 4800+.

10/1/2005 11:59:40 AM

Quote :

"i wanna get 2 dual 3.0 ghzes cause thats 6ghz"

10/1/2005 12:29:14 PM

^

10/1/2005 1:04:06 PM

Quote :

"you need a computer with a Turbo button "

had one in my lab

10/1/2005 1:18:08 PM

Quote :

"i wanna get 2 dual 3.0 ghzes cause thats 6ghz"

It really doesn't work that way.

[Edited on October 1, 2005 at 1:37 PM. Reason : would take to long to explain]

10/1/2005 1:29:52 PM

Quote :

""you need a computer with a Turbo button" What the crap where those supposed to do anyways?"

http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5318
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/case/switchTurbo-c.html

thanks for asking, i always wondered that and never bothered to look it up

10/1/2005 2:33:45 PM

Quote :

"like i wanna get 2 dual 3.0 ghzes cause thats 6ghz"

Quote :

"like i wanna get 2 dual 3.0 ghzes cause thats 6ghz"

10/1/2005 4:18:26 PM

Quote :

"It really doesn't work that way. [Edited on October 1, 2005 at 1:37 PM. Reason : would take to long to explain]"

I do beleive he was kidding

Quote :

" there is no computer capable of supporting 20 processors at the same time "

No DESKTOP computer, yeah. But blue gene uses 32 processers on a chip and 32 chips per board...


http://www.nersc.gov/news/reports/bluegene.php


[Edited on October 1, 2005 at 4:52 PM. Reason : ]

10/1/2005 4:46:21 PM