GHZ Wars with RAM!!!!

[Decayrate]

Core Duo (yonah) aren't 64bit combitable, but Core 2 Duo, is combitable

it's not quite 64bit thou, but it is "emulated". There will be "Real" 64 bit when they er shifting core arcitecture, (neahalem)
Also it's no performance loss with that "emulated" type off 64bit!

[Jari]

Isnt XDR from Rambus? If it is I know Intel will have a hard time shifting that.

Which is bit of a shame, RDRAM was decent enough memory, just very expensive.

(Sorry for the short post, we are troubleshooting a privilege issue...)

[ChaosControl]

Core Duo (yonah) aren't 64bit combitable, but Core 2 Duo, is combitable

it's not quite 64bit thou, but it is "emulated". There will be "Real" 64 bit when they er shifting core arcitecture, (neahalem)
Also it's no performance loss with that "emulated" type off 64bit!

It's mainly there so people who want to run a 64bit app, they can.
Desktop procs arent something to do real 64bit things on anyway.

[Decayrate]

Desktop procs arent something to do real 64bit things on anyway.

You sure are right, not now at least. Developers needs to implantate, Multi-Threading and 64bit support to their programms (games, apps, etc.)

[RW_66]

Chaos..

Bill Gates in 1985 said he didn't see desktop PCs ever needing more than 640 KB of memory. In 1989, Computer Gaming World (CGW) announced that Video Expansion Cards were "expensive, ineffective, and doubtlessly a doomed technology". Everytime somebody predicts that PCs will "never need/do" something, they're almost invariably wrong. Right now a top of the line PC can actually outperform (per clock cycle) a Cray YMP/2 supercomputer from 1990.

All the Core 2 Duo's actually use 2 X 64-bit ALUs per core. This allows EACH core to perform one 128 bit calc per clock. However, they still use 32bit instructions and addressing.

[ChaosControl]

Chaos..

Bill Gates in 1985 said he didn't see desktop PCs ever needing more than 640 KB of memory. In 1989, Computer Gaming World (CGW) announced that Video Expansion Cards were "expensive, ineffective, and doubtlessly a doomed technology". Everytime somebody predicts that PCs will "never need/do" something, they're almost invariably wrong. Right now a top of the line PC can actually outperform (per clock cycle) a Cray YMP/2 supercomputer from 1990.

All the Core 2 Duo's actually use 2 X 64-bit ALUs per core. This allows EACH core to perform one 128 bit calc per clock. However, they still use 32bit instructions and addressing.

You have a point but those days they didn't really need the technology of it at all.
I'm just saying if you want to do extreme multi-threaded 64bit apps you should by a blade server or something thats made for the job, not some wanky desktop proc. (though it does its job for WinXP 64...at least the AMD procs do, the intel has major performance drrops because of the emulated 64bit implementation.)