Building/Upgrading a PC for TS2
Hegelian:
No. :)
In fact, as far as I know, all current Athlon CPUs from AMD and most if not all current Pentium CPUs from Intel include 64-bit support, so you don't have a choice since you can't buy WinXP x64 off the shelf (you can only upgrade online or buy it pre-installed on a new PC).
This isn't the first time we've been down this road: MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows (Win 3.1?) ran fine on 80386 and 80486 CPUs, which were 32-bit processors.
J. M. Pescado:
* J. M. Pescado stares blankly.
People buy Windoze?
Hegelian:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 June 20, 17:39:43
* J. M. Pescado stares blankly.
People buy Windoze?
Of course. If you build your own machines, you need to get it somewhere (of course if you don't want to pay you can obtain a pirated copy—but I don't do that). And if you already have a copy, you need to buy the upgrades if you want to "move up." WinXP Pro x64 is not available as a retail upgrade, and apparently the "exchange" program for users with WinXP Pro expired in July 2005.
Of course, as with other versions of Windows, if you shop around you can probably find the OEM package of x64, although you may need to buy a bit of hardware (or the seller will include some broken bit like a non-functioning $10 mouse) to meet Microsoft's OEM resale requirements. 8)
Hegelian:
Quote from: VyeOlin on 2006 June 19, 07:33:06
Intel made a huge mistake but they will rectify that within 5 years as they are planning on using liquid nitro to break the 5ghz limitations. He said that cpu chips will come in an enclosed refrigeration unit. Sounds expensive to me.
I just read this morning that IBM and researchers at Georgia Tech have produced a prototype CPU that runs at 500 GHz when cooled to 5° Kelvin using liquid helium (that is -268.5° C). The processor runs at 350 GHz at room temperature. It is not likely we will be seeing these for the desktop anytime soon, very possibly never. Note that the team believes that using silicon-germanium technology, it can achieve 1000 GHz.
Although Intel is the big dog in the desktop market, IBM is definitely still a major player at the high end of silicon-chip engineering.
IBM accelerates silicon to more than 500 GHz
J. M. Pescado:
Will the processor actually *REMAIN* at room temperature when you run it, or is it going to wind up 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun?
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