New Ship in Bottle

First runs 50 rebuilds

Dual 3.4 Xeon 800 MHz FSB
2 Gig PC2700 Memory
10k SATA drives
Nvida Quadro FX 3400 PCI-E

28.625
29.236

Mr. Me

 

Mr. Me,

What MoBo are you running?

 

Starting to approach AMD 64 speeds.

What is the absolute fastest you can do SIB in? Anywhere near 18 sec.?

 

P,

Regardless, The intel "still" has to run at nearly twice the AMD64
clockspeed in order to get there.

Mark

 

Is it just me, or have the processor speed wars by Intel and AMD
cooled down of late?

AnandTech had this to say, and it is scary for a SW user:

"With 2004 quickly coming to a close, we can't help but wonder if this
will be the last year for the foreseeable future where we will have a
processor speed war to talk about. With 2005 destined to be the year
of multiple cores, and with dual core solutions from both AMD and
Intel guaranteed to run at lower clock speeds than present day single
core chips, are the great MHz and GHz races of years past on hiatus
for a while?"

If the next speed increase improvements are going to come from
multiprocessing we, the SW community, are going to be left in the cold
unless SW64 comes out soon. SW is going to have to backtrack on 4 or 5
years of 3-5% speed decreases as well. That would be a 20% improvement
in performance right there.

 

Intel SE7525GP2

Sorry for the late response but I have not been on this group in a while.