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[Da_elf]

http://www.boxxtech.com/news/pressreleases.asp

[Neilg]

Did you mean the top one?

BREAKING NEWS: RUNNING A QUAD CORE IS TWICE THE SPEED OF A DUAL CORE.

[Blitterswitch]

I would find this funny apart from the fact that the last IT manager we had refused to spec me a quad core (2.4ghz q6600) in place of the stock 1.8ghz C2D because in his own words "I am not convinced by them yet, they are not efficient enough". I just had enough one day and had a massive go at him and threw the vray benchmark excel sheet on his desk and said "READ THAT". My guess is that he had got carried away on the AMD usp that a true quad core will be many times quicker than a 'fake' 2x2 quad core. This was at least 6 months ago when the AMDs were still far far far away on the horizon and most definitly an unknown quantity.
It bugged me because he would speak to me in a very condescending manner when he had no practical experiance of my job its requirements or any hardware outside of pre-made server equipment!

Sorry for the rant!

[vlado]

32 cores on a single machine sounds very nice for rendering; but it says later something about water, cloth and hair dynamics, all of which are not as easily parallelized and probably will not use all 32 cores anyways.

Best regards,
Vlado

[tricky]

I agree. We use a x386 for all our hair calculations.

[Da_elf]

damn thats advanced. ive been using a comodoreC64 but i upgraded the ram from 64kb to a massive 65kb lol. i doubt that was even possible untill the 128 came around hehehe. for those who dont know what im talking about you are obviously waay too young
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

[RErender]

I did my first animations on a C64, sprites baby!

[Morbid Angel]

eventually software will evolve to take advantage of multicores. For now though, some softwares crash even with multiple cores...not a good thing. For rendering though, its awesome.

[MoonDoggie]

Raise your hand if you had a Video Toaster...

[Blitterswitch]

For the Amiga? I seem to remember them a looong time ago when those genlock things were all the rage. I am far too young to have actually understood what it was though. Although I didn't really grasp what it was I still wanted one! to an 8 year old me it was just summin cool that Amiga Format used to mention and it had summin to do with 3D and video! haha I miss my Amiga

[Da_elf]

if your too young to remember the video toaster then C=64 was way out of your range

[PixelJockey]

Ahhh... The good old days. I had a TI994a, then an Atari 800 and finally the big fella, Atari 1024ST. I remember getting into all sorts of arguments with my friends that had the C64. Sort of like Xbox vs Playstation. But we were arguing about programming in Basic. Ha.

[Blitterswitch]

I remember the C64 although never had any contact with it, but i remember the Spectrum and also the BBC micro... "DONT TOUCH THE JOYSTICK!!! IT WILL CORRUPT THE LOADING!!"