The good old days of AMD and Intel

• DoomedLover

  9 Oct 06, 22:52

  It is no longer there. The heydays of Intel and AMD during the Pentium 3 time period when everyone was going for clockspeed and FSB w/o that thermal burning. It was a challenge for them
  Now with double core speeds, processor battle is no longer interesting.It makes it easy for them and unchallenging.
  Ever recall how AMD and Intel tried to outdo each other before crossing the 1 gig mark?
  
  1 interesting aspect was that back at that time multi cpu thing. when certain "exclusive" mainboards have the ability to use 2 cpus.
  
  That was the idea which gave birth to the multi core CPUs of 2day.
  
  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  9 Oct 06, 22:54

  Now is battling for how many cores. Intel is pushing out quad cores chips soon.
  
  Next, we shall see AMD.
• Ito_^

  9 Oct 06, 22:56

  no money
• dork3d

  9 Oct 06, 22:59

  Intel's Pentium D isn't that good and stable...
  
  My company got me a Lenovo ThinkCentre Pentium D CPU two weeks back... So far me encountered lots of hanging and when opening applications like MS Outlook and Word, it hangs... Then after a short while, a popup window saying out of memory... Damn sucky as it will automatic shut down and reboot...
• DoomedLover

  9 Oct 06, 23:05

  and also the 3dFX- Nvidia saga and Nvidia's rise to power. The 3dFX was the true graphics card to revolutnise gaming .
  Then after demise of 3DFX, ATI became the messianic company to oppose Nvidia's growing dominance on the graphics market. An unlikely candicate ,ATI rose to power after 2000.
  
  Then somewhere behind the scenes, companys like Sony brought about advanced technology equal to 6 yrs down the road like the PS2 CPU which had immense horsepower of its own FPU, two 64-bit integer units (IU) with a 128-bit SIMD multi-media command unit, two independent floating point vector calculation units (VU0, VU1), an MPEG 2 decoder circuit (Image Processing Unit/IPU) and high performance DMA controllers.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  10 Oct 06, 09:38

  1 interesting aspect was that back at that time multi cpu thing. when certain "exclusive" mainboards have the ability to use 2 cpus.

  Servers do that long before PCs can do it.
  
  When PCs could do it, it started from hyper threading or what is known as HT technology. It simulates 2 cores running on a motherboard.
• FireIce

  10 Oct 06, 11:10

  pls move discussion to tech.sgforums.com
• seow

  10 Oct 06, 11:21

  +1 before close???
  
  AMD>intel!!!
• ShutterBug

  10 Oct 06, 11:23

  AMD has overtaken Intel now...