In reply to:Indeed - same here.I will not taint my computer with Real.
In reply to:Damn straight, you're not!Apple.... I'm not even gonna start...
In reply to:To my knowledge that is only because that is 32 bit, and because the P4 only does 6 IPC (instructions per clock) compared to a 32 bit aXP's 9; compare it to a 'real' chip - ie the AMD Opteron (sledgehammer same as fx-51).The PowerPC G5 can pump through more than 200 in-flight instructions at a time, a whopping 71% more than the 32-bit Pentium 4
In reply to:That is incredible! Especially for a card that cannot do the Nature test (Game Test 4). That would be another few thousand right there. From direct-x 7 compliant GPU's such as that GF2 to a DX8 Compliant one, there is such a gain in 3DMark score (for 2k1), but after that it's kind of not important, as there are no tests in 3DM2k1 that it cant do (3DM 03 is another story ).when I o'clock a P700 to 1066 or something like that with a GForce2 GTX and I would get 7000+ on 3dmark.
In reply to:At least your card uses the 5v rail, which is generally less stressed than the 12v rail, which my card (and the nV30 and nV35 use, the 58 and 5900's).I just wish my 9700Pro didnt have that extra piggy back power drain. It doesn't work too well if your building a HTPC for low noise and low power.
In reply to:Hahaha - I havn't heard that in a while.If you want a silent but expensive case this is da bomb.
In reply to:Do you know what a RISC based 64 bit Power4 power PC chip?
In reply to:The PowerPC G5 can pump through more than 200 in-flight instructions at a time, a whopping 71% more than the 32-bit Pentium 4.
In reply to:Comparing the Power 4 to the Pentium 4 is pointless.
In reply to:The PowerPC G5 can pump through more than 200 in-flight instructions at a time, a whopping 71% more than the 32-bit Pentium 4
In reply to:Which is irrelevent if each of those instructions takes less time in a Pentium 4.
In reply to:Yes I was kinda interchanging RISC based AIX systems which runs PowerPC chip to Mac G5 PowerPC chips.
In reply to:That was my intention because both does run unix to a certain degree.
In reply to:But what I was refering to as a 64bit Power4 or Power4+ are these.
http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPublicUSA/en_US/eServer/pSeries/mid_range/pSeries_midrange.html
In reply to:And yes the PowerPC970 is 64bit but that is not what I am talking about.
In reply to:Both the IBM Pseries 6xx server and the G4 or G5 do run Unix ..yes of different flavors one AIX..the other I think BSD.
In reply to:http://www.apple.com/g5processor/
Scroll down to the area that talks about the the G5 and IBM 64bit Power4 processor. Apple worked with IBM to leverage the Power4 technlogy to create the G5.
In reply to:I was comparing this...
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The PowerPC G5 can pump through more than 200 in-flight instructions at a time, a whopping 71% more than the 32-bit Pentium 4
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... I was comparing G5 to P4
In reply to:Wheres proof? How many instructions per cycle can the P4 do? How fast is a P4 cycle in comparison to the G5.
In reply to:I have gotten information from a Mac user from my company that he has rendered a 300meg+ 3D object in realtime on Photoshop with a G5 vs and a fast CPU P4 with somewhat the same GPU and found that the MAC did create it much faster almost realtime.
In reply to:But there are a lot of Unix gurus out there creating stuff for the G5 because the OS is opensource.
In reply to:They are trying out their scripts and thinking this can be used for fileservers which may cost under $15,000 in comparison to some of the $50,000+ IBM Pseries servers. It may not do all the functions they need but for something 1/3 the price its one hell of a machine.