ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:GPUs are fast cause of parallel processing (correct me if I'm wrong), which is not very viable in CPUs.

Multi-core CPUs work in parallel...

Not viable at the level of parallel GPUs do. New GPUs do like 48x parallel? Current CPUs do 4x at most.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:Yet neither of us will probably ever get a PS3... ...

The main turn off for the PS3 is the price.  Typically, consoles have been a lot cheaper, but the PS3 really pushes it.

Mainly cause of the BluRay drive probably. They're really expensive at the time of the PS3's launch.

Not that either of us will get an X360 either, which is a lot cheaper.

Meh, couldn't even be screwed getting myself a graphics card. I don't really even play games much at all these days.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:My uni has this interesting super computer built of i think 64 or 128 Pentium 3's they got really cheap from some company which needed to do an upgrade.

128 Pentium 3s doesn't sound very strong either.  Typically you need something like around 500 Pentium 3s to build a supercomputer.

Forgot how many there really are, but i remember it's something like 128.

Anyways, it's not made to be the strongest supercomputer. More like something they did for fun. And it's made some years back (like 5 years back or something), So u have to compare with standards back then.

(This post was last modified: 24/07/2007 05:01 PM by Assassinator.)