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In my mind the Alton giant is pansy. If I don't risk scratching up my finely chiseled good looks, I'd would have liked to take him down. My left jab would take out the Giant's will to live. Think about it.

Edit for writer's embellishments.

 

[MU_Engineer]

Is simultaneous driving and texting legal in Missouri?

If you are 21 and over, it is. It was recently made illegal for those under 21.

 

[MU_Engineer]

MU you should move immediately to Canada ... your Gallatin's will love you for it, and you will unlikely suffer further from these fiendish insects.

The mosquitoes and blackflies in Ontario are much worse than the ticks and chiggers here in Missouri. I've been up there multiple times and enjoy going fishing, but the bugs are a serious PITA.

 

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hahahahaha. Fail!

Important related update.

http://www.google.com/images?q=texting+and+driving+pic&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=HPmYTLDvD5OosQOR372zDA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCIQsAQwAA&biw=1259&bih=823

 

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If you are 21 and over, it is. It was recently made illegal for those under 21.

Kids know how to text more efficiently than old people. [:badge:2]

 

[MU_Engineer]

MU...not even a guess?! You are from Missouri and you have no knowledge of this? It's painted into the cliffs along the Mississippi River near the town where this man was from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow

I've never seen the painting you posted, although I have heard of the Alton Giant. Alton is in Illinois, though. The only thing I've seen painted on any of the bluffs was a Republic of Ireland flag with the text "Free Ireland" underneath it, which was painted along I-44 sometime in the late '90s.

What's a gallatin?

http://www.gallatin-tn.gov/

It's the code name for a 130 nm NetBurst CPU die with L3 cache. The name comes from the Gallatin River, which is a river in Montana and Wyoming. This follows Intel's practice of naming CPUs after physical features in the northwestern U.S.

The Gallatin die originally was used for the Xeon MP with 1 or 2 MB of L3 cache, a 400 MHz FSB, and came in Socket 603. AMD's introduction of the original Hammer Opterons led Intel to repackage the Gallatin in Socket 604 with a 533 MHz FSB for use in two-socket servers to provide more performance than the L3-less, Northwood B-based "Prestonia" Xeons currently being used. The introduction of the Athlon 64 FX series had Intel repackage the Gallatin again, this time in Socket 478 with an 800 MHz FSB to make the very first Pentium 4 Extreme Edition CPU. Intel also bumped the L3 size in the top Xeon MPs to 4 MB and repackaged the Gallatin yet again for LGA775 with a 1066 MHz FSB before they were done with the die. I have the 3.20 GHz/2 MB L3/533 MHz Xeon DP model in my dual socket 604 file server as those are the fastest chips the board supports and they cost $20 or $30 for the pair.

 

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I spent a lot of time near Alton, IL across the river from St. Louis. Piere marquette state park is nearby. The place where the Missouri and Missippi rivers meet. Friends owned property up on the cliffs above the Muissippi. A lot love making under the stars back in the day. reynod, yes I have a life.

http://www.google.com/search?q=piasa+bird&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

 

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This is nice pic of the Alton Piasa Bird. Used to hang out in the area and considered moving there while in college. Lived close by while in college. Being part native american I always took a special interest in the bird. reynod..yes I am a savage.

 

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I'm using the AMD fx55 today. So thisline caused the 'first' introduction on L3 cache into Intel processors? Can you tell me what data is involved specifically being procesed with L3 cache? Data that would otherwise not be eligible to be held by the CPU for processing with L2 cache?

 

[Shadow703793]

The Birth of the Raptors:

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Kids know how to text more efficiently than old people. [:badge:2]

Must be a Obama ploy to kill off all the old folk, as they didnt vote for em

 

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Old folks are going to be employed building roads and bridges to improve the nation's transportation system. The idea was discussed over a beer with the VP and Joe Biden told Obama his idea for the old people was [exlpletive] important and a sign of greater things to come.

 

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Future Pakistani passenger jets.

 

[MU_Engineer]

I'm using the AMD fx55 today. So thisline caused the 'first' introduction on L3 cache into Intel processors?[/quote]

No. As far as I can tell, the first Intel CPU with L3 cache was the original "Merced" itanium. The next one was the Xeon MP "Foster", which was the Xeon equivalent of the P4 Willamette, but with 512 KB-1 MB of L3 cache added. Intel has been putting L3 cache on every Itanium since its inception and sometimes puts L3 cache on Xeon MPs:

- Foster MP (P4 Willamette equivalent): 512KB or 1 MB L3
- Gallatin (P4 Northwood equivalent): 1, 2, or 4 MB L3
- Cranford (P4 Prescott equivalent): no L3
- Potomac (P4 Prescott equivalent): 4 or 8 MB L3
- Paxville MP (Pentium D Smithfield equivalent): no L3
- Tulsa (Pentium D Presler equivalent): 4, 8, or 16 MB L3
- Tigerton (Core 2 Conroe/Kentsfield equivalent): no L3
- Dunnington (Core 2 Yorkfield equivalent): 8, 12, or 16 MB L3
- Nehalem-EX: 12, 18, or 24 MB L3

The only x86 Intel chips designed for two-socket or single-socket operation that had any L3 cache were the Gallatin and the current Nehalem/Westmere units. All future Xeons will likely have L3 cache since the L3 cache is used in all of Intel's CPUs with more than two cores per die, rather than just in 4P+ systems to help lessen FSB traffic.

Interesting fact: the first x86 CPU with L3 cache is the AMD K6-III when placed in a Super 7 motherboard with cache SRAMs. The motherboard cache would have been the L2 cache on K6s and K6-2s that lack any on-die L2 cache, but the L2 cache-equipped K6-III used the motherboard cache as an L3 cache. AMD would not make another CPU that used L3 cache until the Barcelona Opteron 8 years later.

Can you tell me what data is involved specifically being procesed with L3 cache? Data that would otherwise not be eligible to be held by the CPU for processing with L2 cache?

Basically, yes. It also is used to store information prefetched from memory for use by the various CPUs and likely to store some data passed between CPU cores as well.

 

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Sandybridge..,what will the unit do differently than current CPU's L2, L3 cache wise with an on die onboard video processing unit. Also, do you think AMD will follow Intel's lead immeduiately with Bulldozer. I built a new 785G system last night for one of the ofices. When using the onboard ATI 4200 video processor, how exactly is the processor 'caching' or running the MB data into RAM then feed into CPU's cache for processing. How do it do it? Thanks.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Yeesh, I open a political thread, and a cpu history/exploration/definition/etc breaks out.
Is Washington really that bad?
But while we have him, keep askin MU, hes good info

 

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What does L3 cache do that L2 cache doesn't?

Mildly related. No word yet on the official French surrender arrangemet.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8019627/Nudists-and-swingers-at-war-in-Frances-Naked-City.html

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

L3 catches the L2 cache whoopsies

Why are hairy armpits seemingly acceptable for women in France?
They think they can hide behind the hair when they surrender with the hands up.

 

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There are French women without hairy armpits? I always used that attribute as a potency generator. Now L3 cache makes perfet sense to me. When will L4 cache be available to catch whoopsies of L3? Hopefully soon. My L2 is so outdated. I don't know how this e8400 continues to even process data. C2D is leaky at best. And my Ram controller is missing. ASUS had to put one on my MB to get past the leaks. I'm on to something.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Try doubling the cores to four, put all things not ram for system on die, and.....itll be a good start

PS Obtain some UnObtainium, as to how to do that, I'll get back to you

 

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I have unobtanium leaking from my AMD Athlon 64 FX55 no? Maybe it's the onboard hydraulics that run the onbard video processing unit that have weakened? AMD released this black version with unlocked doors, but the hydraylics are not producing any video anymore. I like the ondie PSU the FX series offered. Why do away with tha? I must be confused? I wanted the extended warranty on FX's early Bulldozer hydraulics video lifter and ondie PSU. I couldn't make AMD believe when I informed them my chip was unObtanium worthy. I'm gonna get me a 6 core hydraulic UnObtanium chip with everything on die like you suggested. Hey the new chips have ondie widescreen and Blu Ray?

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Only the ones with dual dipsticks
Try retuning your ondie regurgitator, so its not so loopy, reducing the needs for L2, or, Ive heard use LN2 (L NOT 2), so your LN1 is larger, or simply, it increases your L1

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

OK, since Im a PC gamer, then I think
Obama should redistribute all those evile greedy dollars that console makers and console games make, and give at least half to PC game devs, for PC games only

 

[Shadow703793]

Ok, this thread is turning in to Tech talk now. Time to derail!

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Whos that? Jennie Durante?