Itanuim to have 24MB of cache

[sargeduck]

wow......what can I say? I want <A HREF="http://news.com.com/2100-1006-5107496.html?tag=nefd_hed" target="_new"> this </A>


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[soccerdude90]

:O DEAR GOD! i want one

...Meh, too lazy to think of a better sig.

 

[HardWareBoss]

The heck with Tejas. I'm buying one of those.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Yes, one of Itanium's big features is its huge amount of cache... So Montecito should have 2 cores @ 2Ghz or more and with at least a 533Mhz FSB (8.5GB/s)and an absurd 24MB of cache... it's really pathetic. This thing will be a monster.

What about tanglewood, the 8-16-core Itanium? This beast should have even more cache!!!! frightening...

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[imgod2u]

Almost as frightening as the 128MB of L3 cache on modern Power4+ packages and the future Power5 packages.

"We are Microsoft, resistance is futile." - Bill Gates, 2015.

 

[Unseen]

hmm too bad you can't play most (probably not any) current games on it 🙁 I probably would be the best gaming cpu avaible if only you could actually play current games on it!

 

[sjonnie]

The heck with Tejas. I'm buying one of those.

Don't forget to remortgage your house first.

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.html?member=114979" target="_new">My PCs</A> 😎

 

[Guest]

Captain Obvious wonders why so many people would want one!

As it requires special 64bit programming no current games or PC based programs would work on it. Its a specialist Server chip(s)!

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[Mephistopheles]

Oh well... I'd want one too, just for fun... it's like a fancy car. Who needs one? Noone. Who wants one? another story...

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[sargeduck]

Captain, you're no fun.
Reasons:
1)so you could say you have the biggest e-penis
2)so you could load quake 3 entirely into your cache and play it running a 32-bit emulator
3)so you have the worlds largest personal computer heating system
4)so this gives you a reason to hold all the lan parties at your house. see #1
5)so you could throw some popcorn on the cache and watch it pop
6)see #1
7)Just because it would be the biggest baddest server out there. Hey, you just might lend a few cycles to a university or something

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[HardWareBoss]

I'm doing that tomorrow.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Bragging rights

 

[HardWareBoss]

I read about those bad boys too.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Before I forget. Can we OC them?

 

[Mephistopheles]

ROFL!!!

Indeed, you could load whole programs into cache... eeek! wow...

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