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Hey, I didn't know ATi had accelerated drivers for Linux these days. This is good news. Performance seems to be about 50% that of Windows, but hey, it's a start. I long for the day when I'll actually have a choice in GPU manufacturers...

Careful, sonny. You can hurt yourself pretty bad with those.

I don't believe that's true. Conroe has evolved through the following chain: P6 (Pentium II) -> PIII -> Banias -> Dothan -> Yonah -> Merom -> Conroe. Banias, Dothan, Yonah and Merom are all Israeli Pentium M/Centrino cores. Merom has not yet been released. I don't think Conroe was ready until recently. It's true that if Portland had started working on this line in parallel with Haifa instead of focusing all of their efforts on Netburst derivatives, Conroe might have been born a lot sooner.

As LostStraw said, if you have an ATi card, there unfortunately isn't much you can do. Otherwise, - Head over to nVidia's website and download the latest driver release for Linux. - Switch to root, and run the installer. It is usually a very quick process. - During the installation, the script might complain that it could not find a matching kernel module. It will ask you whether you want to try and download it from nVidia's website, or compile it locally. Choose the Local Compile option (it will never find a match on the website). - In most cases, you should be done. Reboot your system and the NV drivers should load up. If it fails, you may need to modify your X configuration. Post here if that happens, and we can take it from there.

To be fair to Intel's engineers, the Netburst uarch was a pretty interesting concept to begin with but ended up being a huge mess. The idea was to have an insanely fast execution core that is clocked at twice the speed of the already ridiculously clocked front end. A 3.8GHz Penium4's ALUs actually ran at 7.6GHz. The instruction scheduling logic was another insane piece of work. It all just crashed heavily when clocks reached close to 4 GHz and power consumption shot up though the roof. I have never hesitated to ridicule Netburst in the past, but in truth the Hammer, Conroe etc. are fairly traditional uarchs: evolutionary derivatives of the P6 (Pentium II). Netburst dared to be different, but it just didn't work. Intel should have killed it off 2 years earlier; it would have died a much more honorable death back then.

Holy moley, that's some crazy stuff.

Gamespot takes a sneak peak. I'm not sure if I'm going to pick this one up. I think I've had enough of Guild Wars.

(w00t) Haha! Those are INSANE price drops! The FX-62 hasn't fallen much, but then nobody buys those anyway. So, should I invest in a $224 4600+, or wait and save up for DX10 GPUs to arrive and sell off my AMD machine and build a brand-spanking new Conroe-based monster? Decisions, decisions...

Is this true? I understand if it is against the rules to discuss illegal ROMs. But shouldn't it be OK to discuss emulators themselves, and using them to play homebrew games, legal abandonware games, and ROMs that you have extracted from games you own?

Youngest Core 2 Duo tested.

Yeah, first you cram as many cores as you can onto a single chip, then you cram as many chips as you can into a single package, and finally provide multiple sockets on the motherboard. Of course, you have to play around with the pricing in order to make all options attractive. Deja Vu. SLI, Crossfire, 7950 GX2 all over again. The only difference here is that performance actually scales pretty much linearly for GPUs. Not so for CPUs, not by a long shot. Even so, if AMD slashes the FX-62 prices to $600 or so implying that you can get yourself a dual-socket FX-62 solution (for a total of 4 cores) for slightly more than a 2-core X6800, they would have a reasonably compelling offering.

Hey, I spent $2500 less than a year ago on this Athlon64 rig... that's the nature of this business.

Here's a new one, complete with background audio and slightly different objectives.

Amusing Inq story

http://www.footymax.com/zidane.htm :D :D :D

Looks like Intel isn't even trying to push these babies to the peak frequencies they are capable of. They just locked down the clocks at exactly the point where the $316 E6600 was spanking AMD's top-of-the-line $1000+ FX-62. The reviewers might have received some pristine samples, but there does seem to be a significant amount of frequency headroom. That 2.4GHz E6600 overclocked to 4GHz with *air* cooling... scary.

*shudder* I remember being absolutely horrified when I first learned about myg0t and their idelogies. Never knew such a large number of people could be that f'ed up in the head.

(w00t) Thanks for the link! Intel's back with a vengeance. It's been 5 years, but this baby has been worth the wait. EDIT: Kirottu, mkreku's original Anandtech link has plenty of benchmarks. Several hardware sites have also published results from pre-NDA-expiry benchmark runs on Conroe and its server-twin Woodcrest.

No, it's true. I said TF2 in my original post.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/hal...tml?sid=6154006 Highlights: - Will ship on PC (duh), X360 and PS3 - X360 and PS3 versions will have HL2 and HL2 Ep1 as part of the package - Updated Physics/Graphics engine - Freebie Prey-ripoff game called Portal, and TF2

Ooooh! Very nice... Few things I'm not sure I liked though: - Use of cheesy phrases like "terrible secret" - PC having a voice - Fully real-time combat (is it stat-based at all?) - Emphasis on ranged combat - Choppy framerate

I didn't see any worthwhile PC games in that list. Plenty of XBOX games, although most of the good ones such as Indigo Prophecy, Burnout: Revenge, Halo Triple Pack, Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia etc. etc. seem to be out of stock both online and offline . I'll pay my local store a visit tomorrow just in case.

You can play Diablo as a Flash game. What is this world coming to?