BAD HARDWARE WEEK

I went "unprepared" to my own wedding !.You know, when you don't provide "that one" necessary condition for macho man, your honeymoon can't be properly consumed.
The moral for the future is obvious: for successful Iran invasion we will need much more troops. But, lack of money will force US for more borrowing from Red China, and that will off shore even much more of our jobs in that direction, than it is already the case. That will in return make our budget even more tiny, and so on. But, after final acomplishing it (like in Iraq), new troubles will suddenly rise, in alas, nuclear equipped Pakistan. We will then again need more troops !. What about abandon of Xeon Israel only politics, it seems a beat cheaper? And might avoid final collapse like that one of ancient Egypt.Nobody ever thought about it !?.

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Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days. We have then, temperature of heaven, 525°C (977°F). Temperature of hell, less than (445°F). Therefore, heaven is hotter than hell.

But, on the Doom Day chosen will go to much comfortable heaven, not to hell? Or, all the physical laws will be invalidated by then? But if so, what is effect of fire in hell, when it would stop functioning without the physical laws?

Burn in hell curse seems, isn't so bad at all?
At least, sounds better than : Burn in Heaven?
Anyway, we shouldn't forget the following (sort of the ultimate Theory of Everything):

"Those things which are impossible with men, are possible with God" - Luke 18 27, and "...with God all things are possible." Matthew 19 26.

Probably, in my humble opinion, provided there are enough faithfuls Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Finally, a truth on bad hardware.

Benchmarks show VIA C7 faster than comaparable Dothan and than Merom (when emerge).

Opterons push Intel out from top of scale, and now VIA will from bottom. As badhardware found last month.
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Bush lost more than 50% of approval in 5 years !. Lets spill bean. If Israel initiated attack on Iran bring oil to $100+ price level (and no fast victory like in Iraq), this diagram shows Bush approval will fall below 20%. Lowest ever in US history, among the all Presidents. But not only in the US. Any Communistic regime (including Cuban's) had approval rating bigger than 20% !!!. Actually any regime in history had better approval. But, once (before Bush) the US were democratic country. Well don't judge the whole nation after only one man. Lets look for the other people in power there.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/nation/3692292
Bush's approval rating is far below those of three of the last four two-term presidents in February of their sixth year:

• Dwight Eisenhower (64 percent);
• Ronald Reagan (63.50 percent); and
• Bill Clinton (57 percent).

Only Nixon, at 27.5 percent in February 1974 — six months before he resigned — was less popular than Bush is now.

About Bush (as the first face of US) popularity world wide, you will have to use much smaller numbers than 20%. No bought main newspapers and TV nets there, or what? Isn't that a bit weird for a victim of terroristic attacks 9/11?

Perhaps something is deeply rotten in Danish Kingdom? (Shakespear), as Badhardware correctly predicted last month. I mean not only in Microsoft financials? And how could be with such a high gas prices?

I mean people have to drive, industry have to burn oil and less money will be left for luxury like a computer and software. But, industry still support those to whom Bush is only a puppet. Long nose wodden Pinochio.

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Intel in troubles with Conroe, mobo manufacturers with its chipsets.
But, AMD is not in any better performance position with AM2. More on AM2 and Intel's
new processors look at badhardware archives.

Intel’s move to push its 65nm dual-core Woodcrest, Conroe and Merom processors (all three utilize the new Intel Core microarchitecture, but target different applications) ahead of previous schedules has not much impressed industry players in Taiwan, according to industry sources. However, since AMD is considered by the industry as being a step behind in the performance race, Intel still has a good chance to regain market share recently lost to its main competitor.

On Thursday, Intel announced that Woodcrest shipments will start in June, followed by Conroe in July and Merom in August – about a couple of months ahead of previous schedules. This will definitely put additional pressure to motherboard makers, the sources indicated, even though a lot of players are expected to come to Computex showcasing new desktop models based on Intel’s new P965 chipset (which supports Conroe).

The sources expect the chipset, which is known as a part of this year’s Intel entertainment PC platforms for the digital home, to be formally launched on June 7, the second day of Computex, or even earlier.

In an attempt to catch up with the competition, AMD will probably try to move the launch of its AM2 dual-core CPUs from June 6, as previously planned, to about May 23, according to the sources. So far, these processors appear to have only minor chances to take a lead over Conroe, and this raises concerns within the industry about AMD’s competitive power, at least, in the second half of this year.

On the other hand, AMD may benefit from claims that Intel may be experiencing difficulties with the Conroe platform, with the sources mentioning possible compatibility issues with the current Intel 975X Express chipset and the unclear situation with the DDR2-800 memory standard, which is still not approved by JEDEC.

The AM2 platform seems more stable at the moment, but the lack of performance should prevent AMD from looking forward with optimism.

Motherboard makers do not believe that the new Intel schedules for Woodcrest, Conroe and Merom will heavily boost shipments. Even before the update, Intel was in a good position, targeting the new CPUs to hit the market in a hot season, the sources indicated. This quarter, according to Intel, motherboard supply will again exceed actual demand, so the sources expressed some worries about how the inventory pile-up will play out.

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Electron is mistery, the biggest ever, as Einstein said once. But after the following story, who can now say that scientists aren't mad? I mean without electron there is no matter.

Bayard Peakes submitted a self-published 33-page photo-offset publication on the non-existence of the electron to present it at the next meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) for mass publication entitled So You Love Physics. Bayard's publication was reject by Karl K. Darrow, head of Bell Labs and the secretary of APS. Other scientists reviewed the publication and described it "as a pointless and elementary discussion of various aspects of physics." Bayard was outraged and planned his revenge.

Near the beginning of July, he went all the way to Bangor, Maine, and purchased a .22-caliber automatic pistol and ammunition for the gun. Eileen Fahey, an 18-year-old secretary who had worked for the APS for the past two years, arrived for work at 9:05 a.m. today with three unopened letters from her fiancé, Ronald Leo, a Marine serving in Korea. The wonderful girl with reddish-blonde hair and blue eyes sat down at her desk, opened one of the letters and began to read it. Dressed in a dark gray suit, Bayard arrived at Columbia University this morning with the intention of killing Karl and any other scientist he could find. He entered the APS office on the ninth floor of the Pupin Building on the campus and saw that only Eileen was in the office.

Frustrated that his target wasn't there, he lashed out at the only person he could. At 9:20 a.m. Bayard pulled out his pistol and emptied into Eileen's body. Five of the six shots struck her, three of them in her chest, one in her right hand and one in her right forearm. The remaining bullet lodged in the desk. He left the office and encountered another secretary for the APS, Mrs. J. V. Lumley, 32, in the hallway by the elevators. He told her, "You better call the police because I just shot somebody. You better call a doctor. I just shot a female." Bayard then walked down one of the staircases and left the building. Mrs. Lumley raced into the office and found Eileen's body on the floor, one of the letters from Ronald had been open, but the other two were still sealed. An autopsy on Eileen's body found that her heart, lungs, liver, spleen, left kidney and aorta had all been punctured by the bullets. Police initially had no leads in Eileen's murder, until they suspected that her murderer could be a disgruntled former member of the APS.

The APS supplied police with a list of members and the investigators went to work. Early Thursday morning, July 17, 1952, police arrested Bayard, 29-years-old, in Boston's Back Bay section as he returned home from a dance. He confessed, at length and without remorse, to killing Eileen on the train ride back to New York City. Bayard was wounded in Belgium during action in World War II and was discharged from the Army in 1945 as mentally ill but not in need of hospitalization. At a hearing on Friday, experts said that "establishing this thesis, and upsetting the conclusions of the great physicists of the last half century, would be a typical objective for a person with schizophrenic tendencies attributed by military psychiatrists to Bayard." He was tried and sentenced to the Rockland County Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
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Chinese eat Wintel's eggs. That is the best way to say No to Wintel. Please note that Chinese offer complete Linux PC for $150 with 800Mhz Godson 2C processor. Please note that Intel's striking Merom processor will cost alone $350 -$650 when emerge. But, we can't compare those processors !! Why? Well, Merom is dual core (needed for DRM) that could run sometimes over 2Ghz, though bigger part of time it runs actually below 1Ghz, to spare some power consumption, due to its big leakage. But, Chinese don't need at this moment DRM ! Hardly Intel - Microsoft will be able to solve this problem in the future. Perhaps to announce all those who don't want to pay for it a very dangerous terrorists, und push them in Gunatanamo until they reveal its (open) sources? I mean almost half of Intel's future production will come from Israel (currently $3,5B is invested in that hughe fab) and dirty cheap PC is obvious dirty anti-semitic idea. The only problem I see is how to put among the wires some 1,5B Chinese?
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Seems naturally for AMD to make before that, a safe transition to new HT 3.0 standard and FB-DIMM servers based on DDR3. On the other side, Intel will switch to 45nm by the beginning of 2008, the whole year earlier. Thus, Intel will not have enough time to make transition to a new architecture until then ( I don't count current NGMA as a new architecture). What will AMD do until 45nm emerge? It would produce 100M processors anually, some 33% of world's x86 production in 2008.

Thus, 45nm could further increase AMD's market share!? .
Or not?. Intel will introduce new architecture every 2 years. AMD will introduce high-K technology at the 45nm node, earlier than Intel. Seems like fight to death, both companies are relying on its own weapon.
What about Intel's Next generation Gesher microarchitecture?
Gesher = current project M(it)osis. (That led Jews out of oppressive Egypt to Promised Land?). My confident source? Deep throat from Intel's multicore development center at Braunschweig , Germany. Please don't miss the fact that Gesher's party David Magan was a mayor of Quiryat Gat, where is currently in construction Intel's gargantuan 45nm fab, that will too produce 32nm Geshers (bridges) in the year 2010 and after. Lets go back to Nehalem. In Hebrew nehal means a stream.
Nehelam means multi streams. Now, Gesher+Nehalem in Hebrew literally means bridge+multistream.
With transfered meaning: BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS ! . Err, link is here.

I am joking, but probably we have here not only one, but two new, competitive Intel's microarchitectures. Nehalem might be streaming architecture like Stanford's Merimac ( stream in native Indian language, but no problem for us multilinguals, hehe). Gesher? Speculative multithreading architecture, sort of functional bridge over few cores (4 at least). And who will win in the end? Well, being Gesher is from the Holy Jewish Land promised by Jahve, what do you think who will be favorized by God (Jahve)? Lets wait some 3,5 years for this hypothesis to be tested in reality. Not too far.
But, don't forget. Nobody was before Badhardware.




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Stupid, idiotic question, Jesus was a Jew, thus any Jew has to understand Jews even when they use modern Hebrew. We all know that! . Well, we are all wrong this time. For the right answer we should know only something about language. Jesus has spoken ancient Arameic language.That language is still alive and some 400 000 people are still speaking it in a different dialects world wide. The following story is from 1986, the Chernobyl disaster year, curiously the same year when everyone expected to be the "end of the world" from all those time counting method for 6000 years from the genesis first day.

The lady was every afternoon sitting on the last row, at the very end of that jewish temple.
At that time she was in her fifties and nobody, among the those coming from time to time, knew her at all. Nobody, nor the rabbin himself.
Finally, three weeks after the first days she was saw the first time, the rabbin decided to approach her and very gentle he ask her:
- Good afternoon my lady, we have seen you for several days to come in the temple. Are you jew or interested about our belief? I can help you in some manner?
She was a little confused and a lot nervous, for this moment she expected and fear at once, and answered:
- No Sir, I am not, but I came here because I thought you can probably help me on a particular matter.
- What could be this? - answered the rabbin.
- I need to learn some arameic - answered her, not less confused than before.
The rabin was not nervous now, but a little bit confused due to the inexpected way the conversation turned to, and wanted to know some more details about:
- I beg your pardon mylady, but coul I know why are you interested in learning SOME arameic? - the arameic is a very ancient language, probably not spoken anymore today or in some very reduced areas.
She felt at her utmost shyness at this moment, but she replicated:
- To say Jesus "Hello" in his language when I'll be there.

Thus , if she was sure that Hebrew is more understendable to Jesus, she wouldn't bother to learn much harder available Arameic.

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#5000 visits in 3 months
Not too much, but not too bad for beginning. 5000 visits in a quarter means 20K visits per year. Thus, multi person blog could reach up to 100K visits per year. Not bad result for a niche topic like hardware is. Personally, how do I feel? Is it easy to make it?


That is relative, I couldn't believe I would make it, but personally I feel now like Jesus when he had to feed 5000 men with 2 fishes and 5 barley loaves. However, I used only my 5 fingers and a pair of my eyes. And still without disciples help. : )


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Nothing new at the latest AMD Tokyo presentation. Literally, except 65nm low power consumption production starting early in 2007. Nothing radically will change at AMD until mid of 2008. Then it is expected Rev2 of Core G and HT 3.0 . But, hmm I never heard for revision of revision. :)
Beside low power, we could expect low prices too. Not appealing to you? But what is more important than that, in situation when further performance rise is limited? Could AMD go beyond 3Ghz effectively?. No not at all.

Then, Intel will brake AMD? How? By its much bigger production capabilities and smaller cores, due to lower applied geometries, as all we know. Well, let check first what we actually know about that. AMD has now in reach 3 fabs, 2 of them are 300mm and 65nm. Thus, Intel has no any competition smashing production powers like it had in 2001. But, it has 65nm production and AMD has not, thus its core will be smaller and consequently its production bigger. Wrong again. AMD will start 65nm by the end of year, and no more any advantage of that type for Intel. Quite contrary. AMD 65nm SOI is much better in power consumption terms than Intel's 65nm bulk. Thus, all Intel myths are busted. Add to that possible negative effects of forthcoming anti monopoly case and dying Itanium low blows. Than, think about again.
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Merom supports SSE4, as badhardware found long time ago. But do you think that mPGA 479 socket will drive announced 64bit until Santa Rosa platform chipset (that will support 800Mhz FSB speed) when arrive in 2007? I am not so sure. Beside, Merom T5600 at 1,8Ghz will use only 2MB L2. But, please note Merom's core speed: 997Mhz. Thus, there is no such a thing like a fixed clock at Merom. Its 2Ghz clock is something it hits only sporadically. So its max performance. Like Super PI25 for model T7200. Add to that Bus Speed of only 667 MHz. Doesn't seem like monster when announced in September. Of course, it will be launched earlier, but alas on paper only.
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Amazing.

Here we go. My guide for another friend who queried on the same topic. Decided to add so that it didn't seem incomplete and therefore leading to wrong conclusions.

Screen Size and Resolution:
LCDs are measured from one edge of the screen to the other. CRTs are measured from the it's physical edge to the other. As a result, while LCDs are smaller, its screen size is a few notches higher.
17" CRT - 15" LCD
19" CRT - 17 to 18.1" LCD
21" CRT - 19 to 20" LCD

Do remember a 19" CRT with viewable size of 18" is of course larger than a 17" LCD.
15" LCD 1024X768
17-18.1" LCD 1280X1024
19" 1280X1024 - 1600X1200
20" 1600X1200

Take into consideration the screensize and ratio if you intend to game. The lower you get from the native resolution, the worst the game will look, even if you do have a hardware calibration unit. Even worst is when the aspect ratios are different.
If your videocard plays at 1024X768 and no more, you'll be seriously dissapointed when you game on a 18.1" monitor. Or it can be a excuse to upgrade once again.

Contrast Ratio:
Light intensity from the brightest white to the darkest black. Higher contrast ratio means better colour reproduction. The better the colours will look and be displayed, the more detail and saturation. LCD range is from 150:1 to 600:1. They average around 350:1 and 450:1. 350:1 should be the minimum.
Contrary to popular belief, while CRTs are capable of displaying more colours than a LCD, many do not. You get what you pay for.

Colour Depth:
Most LCDs can display 15.2 million colours. That's 8 bits per primary. Remember, the alpha channel doesn't really exist. Merely a blend of the 3 primaries. To decrease the response rates, some manufactors start at 262K colours then use varying voltages to output 14.9 million colours.
As far as that goes, it's not much different from what most CRTs actually display. Again, even so, it is still preferred that you stick with a high-end CRT if you demand 100% colour accuracy. Tried and true.

Response Rate:
Mostly been covered by original poster. Just to add that some manufactors will usually state their tr time. You have to add tr and tf together to get the full response time.

In addition, they will commonly state those response time given several conditions. Say 80% contrast and 50% brightness. If you want full colours, you will bring those up and response will suffer. This varies upon monitors.
Being that there are so many ways mislead, a 30ms spec'd monitor may very well ghost LESS than a 20ms spec'd monitor. When contrast et brightness are turned up, same applies.

Refresh Rate:
Ignore this. LCDs don't flicker at 60Hz. Most glass screens only do 60Hz. Few will do 75Hz. Models that state they do 75+ are 90% of the time limited by the glass screen and circuitry anyways. Either way, you won't see any flicker.

Analogue or Digital:
Digital is clearly better to the keen. On LCDs will hardware calibration, it's subtle but still there. There are problems with using analogue connection to a LCD and those are usually sync problems. This leads to "shimmering" lines and irregular sized text. You can adjust it by eye or have hardware calibration do it for you.

All LCDs have adjustments by hand. If you don't know what it is, it's fustrating and usually leads to no gain.
Hardware is harder to come by in that they come on $1000+ models generally. But you get other features that are well worth it. Most are passable. EIZO's hardware unit is a whole in a league of its own.
As far as quality.

Cables:
Not all cables are created equal. There is no such thing as a high quality bundled cable. While most of us would say it's very well good enough, it never hurts to get a new one if you experience excessive ghosting blurriness or dull colours. Do not mix and match cables as some meet the requirements for their monitor only. In that I mean, bandwidth. Higher resolution monitors require higher bandwidth. Using a cable from a 15" unit will be far from great on a 18" unit. Leads to horrid picture quality, shimmering, shaking, ghosting, et-c.

Brightness:
LCDs are all bloody bright. If you look at a unit over 250cdm^2 for too long, you're asking for trouble. Since LCDs do depend on the backlight for colour, take this into consideration. There are always gamma adjustments to make if dark areas are too dark. No different from a CRT.

Backlight:
While many manufactors use the same screen in their display, they will use different backlights. Quality will vary. Which is why, for example, NEC and Hitachi, even though they use the same panel in their 16ms monitors, the NEC has better colour.

Backlight are of very high quality nowadays. Many have a life of >40,000 hours. That's 4.5 years of 24/7/356. 9 years at 12/7/356. How many of you even do 12 hours a day?

Burn-in & Screen Fade:
Unlike CRTs, the LCD screen never degrades over time. It will be just as crisp 4 years from the day you opened it up for the first time. This makes it a very good long term investment. You can keep it att 100% contrast and brightness and it will never degrade. Do that on a CRT, and you've cut its life in half.

It is still possible to burn in an image on a LCD screen. Say, you left your desktop on for 12 hours. To rid of that, just run a screen saver the next time. If you actually did get a burn in image, again run something with motion for the same amount of time and the image will soon disapear.

Dead Pixels:
CHECK to see what the manufactor policy is on this. Some will let you return after 3 dead pixels. Some will be 7-8 sub pixels. Some will be 5 but only if they're noticable spot and/or in a cluster. If this bothers you, check before you buy.

Technology on dead pixels have improved by quite a bit from even last year. It's rare to have a fully dead pixel now. A dead sub-pixel is one that displays one colour and only that one no matter what the others are doing.
Not to be confused with a lazy pixel. These change a bit slower than the others. Usually, this is normal on a new or display that hasn't been used in a while. Use the screen for 5-10 minutes in some fast movement game and you'll find it has vanished.

Keep the screen clear of dust particles as those may block a pixel and you may see it as being dead till you wipe it.
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Dell loses market share to HP, says IDC
AMD and HP ready corporate desktop push
Intel & Dell down.
PC shipments increased by 13.1 percent in the first quarter, according to research firm Gartner, thanks in part to sales in emerging markets and to consumers. Overall, 57 million PCs, notebooks and servers based on so-called x86 chips were sent to customers. Rival IDC came up with similar results and rankings although the exact numbers are slightly different.
The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker saw shipments rise worldwide by 10.2 percent from the first quarter of 2005, resulting in a decline in market share from 16.9 percent to 16.5 percent.

Gartner further added that, in processors, Advanced Micro Devices gained market share over Intel in the last seven quarters. Before Intel's next generation paper launch: The whole 2 years.

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Finally, a truth on bad hardware. Intel's cache cow gets mad.

Intel's cash is down 7.1 billion from Q105, and down $3.7 billion from Q405.
Intel went down: 8.9 billion sales (-5% on YtoY), only 1.3b net income (-38%!!!). Profit margin is extremly low, it is only 55.1%.
Expectation for Q2 is even worse: revenue is between 8.0b and 8.6, it was 9.2 Q2 2005 and it means 11% decreasing! Expected gross margin is 49%(!!), down from 56.4% (Q2 last year).
The interesting thing is that AMD sales balanced the negative impact of Intel sales, so the market was more or less flat compared to Q1 2005. But in Q2 the situation will be different, the market will go down.

Seems that no one wants Intel's beef? Nasty AMD, you Intel's market eater ! Interesting thing is that somehow $3,7B of cache has dissapeared this year, since design of new "Intel's " fab in Qiryat Gat, Israel (worth JUST THE SAME "Intel's" $3,7B) began ??? No more monopoly, no more cache? Or that "small amount" of $3,7B should be laundered first in the Middle East before the ongoing antitrust case investigation?
Is that the cause of MAD CACHE COW DISEASE at Intel's farms? Anyway, seems that sudden outbrake of CACHE COW DISEASE was quite justified reason for Intel's CEO recent fast and ferociously wild rides.

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AMD requests documentation from Microsoft for its antitrust suit against Intel.

We hope that if AMD can get it, the revealing documents and email would not be ciphered and their key accidentally lost somewhere. Alas, if that happen, further chances of AMD at the court are pretty slim (see cartoon on the left). But, if Microsoft officials use the same strongness ciphering, as the ordinary Windows users have to deploy, than AMD could easily solve that pretty small hypothetical obstacle. Right?


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IBM hits 8Ghz in 90nm using Limited switch dynamic logic circuits for high-speed, low-power processor designs.
That high performance logic will be used in IBM's forthcoming high clocked (up to 4,4Ghz) Power6 processor. Intel recently demonstrated 10Ghz circuits in 65nm. Thus, generally there is promising improvement space for higher clocks , but the question is would be that the most optimal choice?

But, as you can see from the graphs, there is no simulataneously low power consumption and high clock (high performance). At 5Ghz linearity between those stops, and higher system clocks are simply not economical in term of performance/power-consumption.

Interestingly, top diagram shows linearity of voltage scaling with frequency. That imply robustness LSDL for 65nm manufacturing technology and covering the whole spectrum of processors (from mobile to server ones) with one unified manufacturing technology family in the range of of 4,4 to 7Ghz.

However, all clock values beyond 5Ghz will be suitable only for high power consumption (and consequently heating) workstation or server roles. But, isn't IBM after Lenovo and Apple spinoff, just that: a server manufacturing company?

Please note that the thoughts above are quite simplified analysis, based on ring oscillator measurements, but processor itself is something much more complex.
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100M AMD's 64 bit processors in year 2008 alone, through continuous transistor improvement.




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Mitosis - Cell division principle in biology is applied for Intel's new multicore microarchitecture in 2009.
Replicating small cores with its own register file and speculative L1 cache, and using Global Register file+ Register Versioning Table, and version control Logic to glue multicore, boost a lot of gains in performance that might be obtained inside single die. Intel is pretty good in large L2 so, it is promising new architecture. Drawback is however, the lack of memory controller on this picture, that means still no CSI I/O for such a fast multicore !?.

Will AMD be competable by 2009?
AMD will do almost the same with its future K10 processor , that should be at disposal about the same time or somewhat earlier. However, K10 will use large integrated L3 (due to recent Z-RAM deal) that naturally fits into its SOI technology, but not into Intel's bulk. By the year 2008 Intel will use 45nm technology, that will leak a lot at higher temperatures and clock, but that will not significantly hit speculative multithreading directed, naturally lower clocked processors. And finally, Mitosis processors will be produced at Intel's 45nm fab in Qiryat Gat in Israel, currently under construction, less than 50 kilometers from troubled Gaza strip in Palestine.

If you can't wait so much, you have an option to join opened Sun T1(Niagara) multicore project that with Rock implementation, a year or two earlier, will offer very similar core collaboration concept.
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Intel Server Roadmap Update (on left, click for higher resolution) given to Badhardware and less than month old, shows ambitious multicore plans, that will be supported by Longhorn R2 OS in 2009. Thus, no CSI supported by Microsoft before the year 2009 ! AMD has the whole 2,5 years to prepare K10 and HT 3.0

Microsoft Windows Server roadmap reveals Intel server roadmap too. Among the other things, Intel's New Generation Architecture is not so knew, as if it supposed supposed at badhardware. Actually, Woodrest is not Opteron killer, but only a low power blade server. Its bad I/O is not so restrictive in blade role, but benefits that offers low power processor consumption are much bigger. As you see from picture, Woodcrest will start in 2H and by the end of year finishs its DP top server role. By the end of 2008, Woodcrest will be replaced with a New Xeon Architecture.
What REALLY NEW microarchitecture will use both companies, AMD and Intel, after 2008?
Speculative multithreading.

More details will follow!

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We have two big global deception going on simulateneously:
1. Collapse of US economy
2. Global warming and life extinction

Though something might be done about the first, the second one is in function of covering the first one.
Covering US economy collapse under its leadership, current US administration has simulataneously organized a big deception campaign on Global warming and its tragic consequences for life on Earth.

By the way, do you see more intelligence in the eyes of this one subject, from the top of the endangered list, more then in the eyes of some Presidents?
How we can expect our further prosperity when we destroy all we didn't create? And sometimes even that to make space for a new prosperity.
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AMD64 is obviously performance broken, without any doubt !
The Three Kings (Th'Inq, Anand, Geek) follows a new performance shining star, traveling from Haifa to Jerusalem.
This one fallen, BROKEN star is actually 754 pin A64 3200+. Sorry, Intel fans, if you thought about the headline in the more general terms. You will however, have to wait to see that.


Heat spreader on chip is obviously still only a piece of metal, literally glued on to A64 die. Quite simple.
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What, someones have already forgotten Tejas at 10Ghz? Well this time Intel demoed actually a register file running at 10,1Ghz in 65nm. Beside they are able to run at 4Ghz clock and VRM11's bottom voltage of 0,85V at only 42mW/Ghz. That shows actually Merom ultimate goals in 65nm (in Gilo form perhaps?). Will we see Intel's processor running at 10Ghz? No, of course not. Devil is again in the details. Intel's 65nm leaks and heat like a hell. Lower clock means lower temp. and leakage.
Thus, nothing new again, except yet another David Copperfield style show for the ignorants.
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AMD has managed to obtain enough Opteron processors in the 2xx and 8xx configurations that it now has a 3GHz version, and these 256 and 856 parts are yielding some really desirable performance! We find that some recently submitted SPEC2000 scores were submitted using a Tyan Thunder K8SD Pro (S2882-D), and the results are significant. For the first time ever, a single-CPU system has been able to break the 2,000 barrier on SPECint, scoring an impressive 2,043. The SPECfp score was even better at 2,365.

To put this in perspective, Intel's highest 3.8GHz Pentium 4 670 numbers are 1,863 and 2,091 from a Precise Workstation 380, with the highest P4 955 numbers being 1,713 and 2,006.

Any comment?
What would happen with headlines of many hardware sites if Intel would be able to do it? However, at this moment I haven't noticed even single one.
But,Intel's future chips will win for sure! I swear they will, Intel told me so !!!!

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A gem or something else? Lets check.
In two part bullshit 1 and 2 , at recently bought The Inquirer, journalist Nebojsa (Fearless!!) gives some perspectives on Woodcrest and Intel's future server chips. In first part distinguished jounalist finds that Woodrest performance are unbeatable, what is true, but devil is as always, in the forgotten details. He didn't mention that his analysis doesn't apply under all circumstances, but only for carefully selected applications that have to fit into Woodcrest's 4MB L2.
Frankly, I don't know any standard 2-4GB DRAM Vista server application that will completely fit under real conditions into 4MB L2, but perhaps someone knows?? Beside, do you know that you will need a lot of memory bandwith for Vista's 3D Aero graphics (picture below)? Some 1800 Mbytes per second at minimum.

Yes, Nebojsa separated second part of his analysis, where he showed that Intel's new generation server micro architecture is a bullshit without quite revisioned currently associated I/O architecture. But, who will garantee that all will read both of his articles?? And of course, Woodcrest's the most important part ( that one speaking on Woodcrest performance sensitivity on application locality bigger than 4MB of L2) he left for the UNPUBLISHED 3rd part of Woodcrest analysis , that one which naturally fits somewhere BETWEEN those two mentioned parts. Luckily, you can find it almost mirrored here.
In the end, let compare Intel's "New generation architecture" from its both end. Low performance Merom and high performance Woodrest use the same micro architecture, the same size 4MB L2 cache, but differs dramatically in performance, though not so much in clock (3Ghz at Woodrest and 2,67Ghz at Merom). WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH A NEW GENERATION ARCHITECTURE PERFORMANCE AND ITS ONLY 14 STAGE PIPELINE WHEN 4/2MB L2 CACHE MISS HAPPEN? THE PIPELINE FLUSH! Do you feel something again is stinking at Intel (and its rabat partners)? Very bad. Please, DO A FLUSH, immediately.

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Transition difficulties seems.
Merom will initially support one of the current Core Duo and Core Solo processor sockets to maintain compatibility with the Napa notebook platform (both processors are available in 478-pin mPGA and 479-pin mBGA packages). And next year, it will move to another socket with the Santa Rosa platform.

So, if you have 478 pin socket that was used for 32bit Yonah and Napa chipset on mobo that doesn't know what is 64 bit, how Intel plans to deploy 64bit Merom through that genuine 32bit infrastructure and 32bit memory controller on chipset? Translated from cryptic Intel's English: Merom will be effectively 32bit due to 478 pin socket until 1H 2007 and Santa Rosa platform. If you need 64bit mobile, don't wait for the next generation 32bit Merom, take AMD Turion. Now. But be causious, that is pure anti semitism.
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Newton, Tesla, Einstein. That is just the order of the greatest modern minds after Life Science online voting. All the other polls about the topic are very similar, with those three at the top, but in a different order.
My opinion? Newton lived 200 years earlier. Hard to compare. But, he was almost a student if we compare his knowledge with the knowledge of those two remaining. Thus, Einstein or Tesla? Lets scientist say theirs. Einstein won Nobel prize, Tesla didn't. Thus, Einstein? Well, wait a minute. Tesla won his unit od measure of magnetic flux (T). Einstein didn't, but he started his Special theory of Relativity thinking on magnetic flux!. Thus who is the first? I made a small research. On Einstein's Nobel prize. He got it in 1921, but not the money part of that award. Where gone the money? Money left to his wife Milena after their divorce agreement in 1919. Einstein gave money of his Nobel prize award to his former wife? Yes, he made that clausule in his divorce agreement. But, how he could know in advance? Einstein and Newton in addition were both some very influent persons, beside being a great scientist. Tesla was not. Perhaps that left him more time for pure science.

Lets back to Einstein's wife (Tesla never got married, just like Sir Newton). She was received at ETH Zurrich (where she met young Einstein) after Tesla recommandation (both were the Serbs). So what? Einstein got his Nobel prize for photoelectric effect explanation. So what again? His basic explanation was that photoelectric radiation was a consequence of beam of the light particles, contrary to then ruling aether based wave theory. Tesla even patented an apapratus based on that idea in 1901. So what? Few months later Einstein started his first employement at Switz federal patent office.
He must got to review and classify Tesla's patent on radiation. There is where he got his idea from. His wife must knew it. Beside, she was a Lenard's student who made experimental verification of photoelectric effect, so first hand experimental results are again from that link. I don't belive that Einstein sucked his theory from his finger.But, Tesla probably didn't know for Planck's discovery of quantum energy the same year. In 1901, Planck + Tesla - Aether = explanation of photoelectric effect. Add Lebedev's (great Russian scientist) experimental confirmation on Maxwell's idea on light radiation pressure in 1901, announced 1902 in Annalen Der Physik, (that was published about the same time as some Einstein's early works in the same journal). Thus, though didn't mention, Einstein had previously very solid experimental verifications about his theoretical topic. But, many years later, historians of Science found he was genius, as the only plausible explanation about the former. Now we know what kind of genius. Genius of the sources hyding. Probably he had a very strong reasons behind. Einstein mentioned Planck results in the year 1905 references (though didn't used his proof method), but not Tesla himself. However, had he mentioned Tesla as a reference, hardly he could ever get some Nobel prize.

Thus, should be honest that photoelectric effect explanation Nobel prize to be shared between Tesla and Einstein. However, that didn't happen. Just as in case when Markoni has stolen Nobel prize from Tesla on radio transmition. And again in 1915: There was a tragic mistake during the 1915 Nobel Prize involving Nikola Tesla and Edison. The report of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1915, to be jointly shared by Edison and Tesla, was carried in the Literary Digest and The Electrical World of New York. On November 14, 1915 Reuter's dispatch from Stockholm reported that the Nobel Committee announced The Nobel Prize for Physics would not be given to Edison and Tesla.

Ridiculously, imagine your life without alternate (Tesla) currents? We would look like a cave men (below):


For H. erectus, it may have paid to be dense. According to one theory, males rammed each other with their thick skulls in order to win females. H. erectus is generally believed to be the direct ancestor of modern humans and also the first hominid to live in caves and tame fire.

Tesla and Edison literally have enlighted our caves.
Some say we would probably never got an atomic bomb without Einstein. But, honestly, do you feel a sorrow because of that?

And finally, in my opinion, who is the greatest modern mind , after the all above exposed? Nikola Tesla, then Einstein and Newton..
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Bad hardware security: Pentium computers are vulnerable to cyberattack.

When the processor begins to overheat or encounters other conditions that could threaten the motherboard, the computer interrupts its normal operation, momentarily freezes and stores its activity, said Loïc Duflot, a computer security specialist for the French government’s Secretary General for National Defense information technology laboratory.

Cyberattackers can take over a computer by appropriating that safeguard to make the machine interrupt operations and enter System Management Mode, Duflot said. Attackers then enter the System Management RAM and replace the default emergency-response software with custom software that, when run, will give them full administrative privileges.

OK, remedy is on the road. Woodrecrest will not overheat so easily. But, what about with world's 80%+ of Xeon based small server base? But that hack is not possible, it is only a theoretical possibility! Well yes, until you remotely switch off processor fan. But that is not possible. Well, it is possible with the NSA small back door in some big companies like HP and Dell. Do you now understand why Dell so rapidly grows all those years? Software people would never thought on this simple hardware hacking. Paradoxically enough, in the end we will soon have millions hardware secure PS3 consoles and millions of insecure servers and security guards !?!

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AMD announces 3Ghz Opteron 256 and 856 priced at USD $851/1514 respectively. Prices for the rest of the 8XX processors drop significantly, between 20 to 25% after this introduction.

Serial	Clock	L1	L2	Dual-core
290	2.8GHz	128KB×2	1MB×2	Yes
285	2.6GHz	128KB×2	1MB×2	Yes
256	3.0GHz	128KB	1MB	No
890	2.8GHz	128KB×2	1MB×2	Yes
886	2.6GHz	128KB×2	1MB×2	Yes
867?	3.0GHz	128KB	1MB	No

Rumors say that those 3Ghz Opterons are from new Fab 36. Interestingly, Intel planned to response with 6Ghz processor next year. But, all it will do will be the same ... 3Ghz.
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Bad Electronics Show: Over 50 feared death.
A fast-moving fire at a consumer electronics show Monday (April 10) in northern India likely killed upwards of 50 people and injured over 100, according to several online news reports. The trade fair was being held in the rural town of Meerut, about 50 miles northeast of New Delhi. The show, called Brand India according to an online report in the Indian newspaper Mumbai Mirror, had on display washing machines, stereos and other electronic goods.

Shouldn't electronics be used in fire alarming?
Perhaps this new kind of communication might give the answer?
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Badhardware hits 3000 visits in 2 months.
For now, since 01.02.2004 - 3000 pageviews is a 1000 per month.. (last month alone already 2000!)
So what? Seems that Badhardware monthly number of hits accelerates.
Try the following, and then ask so what, please:

0. Make your own blog on niche topic (not about sport, politics, stars, sex and similar)
1. Don't pay Google for indexing
2. Don't pay commercials
3. Don't syndicate or feed it by any means
4. Install hit counter and keep blog for 3 months
5. Make a comparison with Badhardware result (if you are not Bill Gates or some similar name) after the 3 months.

What do you think, will you hit 3000 visits? Any bet?
OK, what I will do in the next 3 months?. Probably something new. Something like this, perhaps?
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IBM announces new encryption chip.

However, IBM's encryption engine is not simply a module that can be plugged into existing chips. SecureBlue needs to be woven into a processor from scratch, mixed in with other transistors somewhat "like hamburger," in the description of Bernie Meyerson, chief technologist for IBM's systems group.

That means SecureBlue, at least for the time being, likely will end up only in devices made by companies that hire IBM's custom engineering unit. That group's projects include chips for medical and defense systems and video game consoles made by Microsoft Corp., Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp .

IBM researchers said SecureBlue already has made its way into one customer's devices. But they said that company had demanded anonymity.

I don't like its name Secure Blue, being something "like hamburger". Perhaps better is Big Blue Mac?

http://news.com.com/2102-7355_3-6059276.html?tag=st.util.print

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Man gets $218T phone bill.
It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used illegally after after his death."If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it," the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can't wait to face it," he said.

I am wondering how much we all have payed for bad hardware up to now, even not knowing that ?

Well, it was Intel's official standopint at Microprocessor Forum in 2002. : )
Of course, 3 years later, after the rise of Opteron, Intel has changed its opinion.
However, in 2002 P4 was everywhere girl, so nobody cared on AMD complains about its clock / performance. Anyway, in the end,we will get Intel's 2x 3Ghz dual cores. But, who would accept in 2002 the fact that Intel clock will not rise after next 5 years !?! Personally, I don't know even single source that has doubted in that moment. But, even if someone would even accidentally dared to contradict, might be easily announced as an antisemite, though , I frankly never grasped what Intel has in common with semitism??

After all, we get a fertile ground for one of the greatest blunders in 21st century, that has helped Intel to keep its shares value and public confidence until the new, relatively competitive processors emerge somewhere in 2006/7. And a brand new 45nm fab in Qiryat Gat in Israel in 2008, worth some hefty $3,5B.
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Well, that is not quite a characteristic of bad hardware. : )
Seems that AMD will be competitive against Intel's "New Generation Architecture" in Q3. Though in 90nm.
http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20060410PB201.html
http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20060410PB201.html
http://ezinearticles.com/?Dual-Core-Processor-Wars:-AMD-X2-vs-Intel-Pentium-D&id=123695
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HKEPC, a Hong Kong Hardware enthusiast site has just taken the 3,73Ghz Intel Pentium 965XE (widely recognized 65nm killer of 90nm Opteron) for a test drive, the results returned aren't striking and it still loses from the AMD FX-60 a fair bit, especially in gaming related benchmarks.
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MAKER OF printers, HP. has admitted that the software used on two of its laser printers could be a back door.The HP Color LaserJet 2500 and 4600 printers have a flaw in the software which allows hackers read any documents printed and gain unauthorized access to the PC.

So, all your documents belong too to US Government Specialized Agencies? Right?
Big Brother is reading you?
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When you read blogs or sites, you can fastest scroll using Page Up or Page Down buttons. If you want top og page or bottom, there are Home and End buttons. You all know that.

But, only provided that you have no selected Alow text to be selected with the keyboard in Advanced General Options in Tools/Options from Firefox Menu Bar. In that case, it is impossible to scroll this blog , using a group of before mentioned buttons. :)
I hope that situation will be solved until OLED keyboards emerge.

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I recently experimented with WaterCooling on a Development 840 System I had on the bench, all was fine until one day when I was transfering some data between hard drives while the system was unattended , the Water Pump failed, no biggie, the system would heat up to a point and shut itself down , Right.. ??

Wrong.. , I stepped back into the room and noticed a slight smell of burning, nothing too alarming until I dialed up Probe on the desktop and noticed the Temp was at 96 Degrees celcius, and rising.., btw this system would sit comfortably around 35 degreee when not under laoad, realising something had gone drastically wrong, I pulled the plug..

Children, don't try this at your home alone.

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Last fall, Vijay Lund, vice president of server and storage development at IBM's Systems and Technology Group, said that the Power6 chip would have approximately 750 million transistors, would be implemented in 65 nanometer technology, and would use a new kind of chip interconnect called "C4," which at least to my eye is very similar to the socket 1207 interconnect that AMD has created for the future "Rev F" Opteron processors due later this year.

In February, IBM presented a bunch of papers at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, after it had attained second silicon with the Power6 chip, and said that the chip would be a dual-core processor, just like Power4 and Power5 before it. Which led everyone to wonder what those other several hundred million extra transistors were doing. But because the Power cores have a very sophisticated interconnect that runs at half clock speed, the Power chips have not needed on-chip L3 cache, much less large L2 caches.

In his talk last week, Soltis shed some light on what all of those extra transistors might be doing. He said that the Power6 chips would have "total, three-way redundancy" for many of the components on the chip--and he was not more specific about which features would be redundant.
Soltis was not, of course, more specific about how this triple redundancy might be implemented. It is hard to imagine that he literally meant that IBM had put six Power cores on the chip, but this is quite possible even if it does sound like overkill.

6 Power6 cores on the same chip? Well, this is exagerrated. But, what about 2 cores with one single integer and two FPU units at each core? Something that is rumored to be on AMD's K9 Core Revision G in 2007? About the same time when Power 6 will be available? Finally I understand why Intel currently invests $10B to keep sinking Itanium afloat until the year 2008. Then should finally emerge a really new generation Nehalem architecture that will send Itanium deep below the floating line. Forever.

Intel uses lowe geometries for caches.Rusu said Intel did not use multiple transistor threshold voltages in the cache--a common power-saving technique--for Tulsa; instead, it made "massive use of longer-channel-length transistors." The transistors run slower but incur 3x less leakage, he said.

McCredie said IBM employed three threshold voltages and tuned the channel lengths in the Power6 to achieve a trade-off between leakage and performance.

Some architecture details are here.

Thus, IBM too optimized parts of Power processor that leak the most. That is actually Power6 high clock secret in 65nm. AMD did the same. But Intel couldn't do that even with their 90nm bulk silicon for high clock, so Prescott and Tejas failed. That is the main difference.

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Pat McKenna is a Security Consultant and CTO with 2SA Plus, a company specializing in 2 Factor Authentication and matters of Identity Management. He is 45 and has been in the IT business for 15 years, during which he has held many positions, including company director. Prior to a career in IT, he worked in the security and intelligence field. He is proficient with many computer languages, old and new, and has trained hundreds of programmers.
His hobbies are chess and penetration testing, aka ethical hacking.

Man, how all men are similar. First, we train our minds with chess. It might be very useful skill, that can help in penetration testing, that naturally follows after, sooner or later. Of course, all is supervised under strict ethical principles.
Who can say now that Mr. Freud's theory was wrong?
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Seems that claims on close proximity to fasciscist methods weren't exaggerated.
AT&T forwards all Internet traffic into NSA. The NSA program came to light in December, when the New York Times reported that the President had authorized the agency to intercept telephone and Internet communications inside the United States without the authorization of any court.
"Mark Klein is a true American hero," said EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "He has bravely come forward with information critical for proving AT&T's involvement with the government's invasive surveillance program."

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The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory and his main suspect for the architect of the attack is Vice President Dick Cheney.

Bowman agreed that the US was in danger of slipping into a dictatorship and stated, "I think there's been nothing closer to fascism than what we've seen lately from this government."Bowman slammed the Patriot Act as having, "Done more to destroy the rights of Americans than all of our enemies combined."

P.S. Be careful Mr. Bowman with your claims. Vice President recently shoot a man in hunt. Not his fault, of course, man (in orange jacket) simply jumped right in front of his gun. And VP consumed until that moment only one beer. One old proverb says: Don't jump ever before the right moment. Don't forget it.

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Finally, a truth on bad hardware from the latest IDF Japan. Personally, I have known it since many years. Core duo is obviously power optimized PIII. And it is alas, still equally efficient like the first Pentium at 60Mhz in 1993. So what is actually new in this latest new generation Pentium microarchitecure? PIII was built in 180nm technology. Core Duo is in 65nm. Thus, is it quite natural that three times smaller transistor is 3 times faster, isn't it !? Let me remind you: PIII had 1,1Ghz max clock and Conroe - 3,3Ghz . Congrats only on marketing breaktrough, after the long 13 years.
Thus, it is quite natural that for the 50% less power consumption dual core 2,67Ghz Conroe is 50% percent faster than the comparable dual core Pentium D at 3,4Ghz. I mean, Conroe is not so much better, but P4 is actually worse the it should be.
Desktop CPU Power Survey, April 2006

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2006Apr/bch20060404035640.htm
A recent survey commissioned by AMD said that 70 out of 100 I.T. shops track power usage as an important measure of cost, performance per watt, and decision making. AMD-powered products, even on 90 nm, still offer the best thermal envelope and greatest performance-per-watt in the server spaces.

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