Itinium CPUs
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Hi there,
Just a quicky for you speed jocks. This UD challenge has got me going (ie 34 pcs tommorow) I have been offered an itinium board and CPU for £25. Now the cpu speed is low, BUT if im correct its a 64bit chip, hence even though the speed is low, it can compete effectively because it has 64 bit bus width as opposed to 32 ? Am i correct that its a 64 bit chip
Just a quicky for you speed jocks. This UD challenge has got me going (ie 34 pcs tommorow) I have been offered an itinium board and CPU for £25. Now the cpu speed is low, BUT if im correct its a 64bit chip, hence even though the speed is low, it can compete effectively because it has 64 bit bus width as opposed to 32 ? Am i correct that its a 64 bit chip
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yeah... it's Intel's first 64-bit processor, IIRC it was codenamed McKinley. There's not much bennefit right now, unless you want to wait for Win2003 to be launched later on this year. It's really a server processor which will be replaced very shortly by Itainium-2 (Madison).
It enables you to address very large amounts of memory and to realistically scale above 8-processors in a Wintel environment.
For twenty five quid, it's worth playing with but it ain't that great.
Phil
It enables you to address very large amounts of memory and to realistically scale above 8-processors in a Wintel environment.
For twenty five quid, it's worth playing with but it ain't that great.
Phil
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