the itanium is a 64 bit processor thru and thru, memory allocation is always great on intel platforms, my guess as to why the itanium gets beat by the opeteron, is cause intel doesnt feel the need to compete in that market.
They own the corperate desktop market and contend at all times with the home desktop market
if yu want 64bit "PERFORMANCE" on a desktop machine from the intel side.get a p4EEtalk donematching 64 bit quote un quote performance, on a 32 bit platform.
so.. YEAHintel do dem, do dem, nvidia do dem ,do dem de uchihas do dem do demYEAH
WE LEARNED that the next generation Intel Nforce chipset comes in a two chip combo. Nvidia usually stuck to one chip design but I guess it ran out of space with its Nforce 5 Pentium 4 silicon. Nvidia managed to place all of its AMD Nforce chipsets on one chip.We can now confirm that Nvidia's Pentium 4 chipset has support for two PCIe graphic ports. Yes, it's SLI compliant and that supports DDR 2 memory. It will be the first Pentium 4 SLI chipset. The only chipset to fight Nforce 5 is ATI's own SLI chipset that is due to arrive in Q2 2005.These two chips are supposedly interconnected with AMD Hypertransport marchitecture and that definitely comes as a huge surprise to us. An Intel chipset interconnected with AMD marchitecture - that's the kind of cooperation that we would like to see more of in the industry.Nvidia was a very early joiner of the AMD Hypertransport organisation, of course.
By Fuad Abazovic: Monday 13 December 2004, 07:13Tyan Tomcat i7221 Server boardNVIDIA HAS made a big noise about its Nforce 5 chipset which suggests it is almost ready to roll. We guess Intel doesn’t want to take chances with imaginary chipset launches.The Nforce 5 or C19 SLI north bridge plus MCP0 south bridge are already sampled and they are in A01 phase. Nvidia plans to have A02 silicon ready in week 53. It's still in Q4 but it’s the last possible week available in 2004. It starts on December 27th and it ends on the 2nd of January meaning Nforce 5 will certainly be a 2005 thing.Documents we have seen indicate that we will see HD Audio but we're unsure whether it's Intel's Azalia or Nvidia's own Sound Storm 2.It's an SLI capable chipset but you don't have to use SLI capability if you don’t want to. Features such as DDR 2 support and RAID 5 are also confirmed.We are also told that this won't be Nvidia's only Intel chipset. We smell the odour of IGP.
