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I have one of those philips they're great. I had to unlock the region on mine because I have access to Region 1 and Region 4 DVDs

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Mine has a little trouble with Xvid high bitrate files (I think that is the cause). Anyway it plays the audio perfectly, but the video FPS is around 10-15 (Although it is watchable).

The above problem is rarely encountered now as I just re-encode them with out any loss in quality.

The best thing about .avi players is that you can get entire seasons of a TV series on one disk. :lol:

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Congrats Ned this thread is like the Enrgizer Bunny it keeps going and goin...

I suspect you started to stear the discusion ina nother direction to keep it goin :wink:

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It might have been to Michael Dell, or one of his buddies.
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**ROFL** Damn! I haven't laughed that hard in ages! The sad part is that it's actually believable. :O (Although I'm also wondering if THG wasn't outsourced to India, what with their 'quality' of content these days.)

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The P-D and P-EE sales have been really bad. Motherboard and memory makers were expecting to get a boost in sales for the new 955 chipset and more DDR2 sales, but Intel missed its 5% of LGA775 sales goal for this quarter. Some are saying less than 1%. Intel was looking at 10% next quarter, but people are not expecting them to do much better. It is not the cost for the P-D as it is priced pretty good. Likely it is the performance and power characturistics that are killing the sales.
 
Going back on topic, here's something really interesting at Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2463

As you guys can see, the X2 4200+ beats the PD820 in almost all tests and beats the PD840 in 2 out of five tests (and it ties in one). I guess if they used the X2 4400+ or the X2 4600+ it would beat the PD840 in ALL tests (using a little of common sence tells me that). As you guys can see, this multitasking scenario is not flawed like the one that "Tommy and friends" did.
Linux is far better that Windoes when handling multiple threads, it has better load balancing of applications than any Windows OS.
I really wanted to see the X2 4800+ against the P840EE in this benchmark. I'll sure it would show "Tommy and friends" something "different" of what they made (lol 😀)

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The only problem I see is not too many home users use Linux and these are not business machines. They should have compared Opterons and XEONs... Oh wait, Intel does not have a dual core XEON... Oh well their loss I guess.

I personally like Anand Tech's reveiw of the Sun's Dual Cold Fire V40z:

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Too bad they did not put in a dual and quad XEON system to compare it too. You can find some VERY powerfull dual Opteron 275 systems for under $5,000, but a similarly equiped 4-way XEON MP system with similar specs is around $20,000. Performance wise the Opteron wins every time. Also for about the same you can get a Quad Opteron 875 system with twice the memory (unless you look at Sun as they are VERY expensive for everything).
 
This thing won't Die. THG again saying
In this case Intel's top model - the Pentium 840 EE - easily outperformed its rival from AMD.
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what not the way I read the charts.
But at the end THG tries to save it self.
For enthusiasts, meanwhile, the choice is clear: The Athlon 64 X2 system has the best performance when running individual power-hungry applications and shines with exemplary stability. Generally, the same cannot be said for the Intel system: it only worked without a problem with boards with an Intel chipset - the nForce4 SLI setup for the Intel platform still causes difficulties.
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Intel Chips are way better than AMD chips, look at the clock speed alone! 2.8Ghz CANNOT compete with an AMAZING 3.8Ghz of Intels chips.

Also, it is well known that Intel chips overclock better and scale better. AMD can't even use DDR2 RAM as they obviously don't have the technology - they still use the much slower DDR 1 varient.

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haha, it's true they use up more power but that is becuase they are more POWERFUL chips - The power consumption on the AMD chips is lower becuase they are not a good as Intel.

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When I had my Pentium IV my electric meter was faster than my DVD burner it was going close to 40X :smile:

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I haven't read Tom's in quite a while, but happened back here today. Just read the Stress test. Interesting idea for a test, but, the conclusions couldn't be more biased. I guess some things never change. Intel recommended for multi-apps. The Athlon beat it in everything but video encoding during the mulit-app tests. Obviously, how the systems balanced the loading should be looked into. Looks like the Intel system put more resources to the encoding at the expense of the other tests. When hyperthreading was turned off, all the results were much closer together, more balanced. But, how you can conclude the Intel system is faster overall is beyond me.

The other glaring thing to me is the soft treatment Intel rec'd for the system stability problems. If the AMD system had all that trouble, they would have been crucified. The basis for the test had to be altered because the Intel system wasn't stable with SLI.

My rant is over, guess don't have to worry about things changing around here.
 
It was meant to be a stress test - AMD won that test hands down.

THG tried to turn it into a performance test, AMD won that too.

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Gee an AMD is saying Opteron sales are up 90% last quarter. I wonder why... Is it because they have dual cored Opterons and Intel does not have a dual core XEON to match? Is it because AMD scales better with more CPUs? Is it because the Opterons use less power, and can used in smalled cases for higher density? Is it because the Opterons can use more memory? Is it because the Opteron handles 64 bit better? Is it because they are stable?

This AMD vs Intel lawsuit is triggering a lot of interesting things... Even if AMD does not win, they are already succeeding. Simions used to be 30% AMD until Intel offered them marketting money bribes to remove AMD's systems off they web site and cataloges. You had to ask specifically for them to be able to buy them. Well Simions now just replace 2 major P-4 systems with Athlon64 and Semperons.

I have also seen a lot of anouncements for Turion based laptops. Intel is sweating and this lawsuit has made it so companies can openly support AMD without reprocutions. Intel is being watched very carefully now.

If AMD's market share does jump, they did get approved by the German government to outsorce overflow demend to Charter. AMD stock has been growning steadaly from about $14 a share to over $20 a share in about 4 months.

So what do you think their market share is and how many dual cores do you think they have sold already.
 
Get the original STRES TEST 840 EE cpu!!!
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Well thats accordign to drunken...not the seller!

Can you feel the
BUMP!

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In the previous "Stress Test"'s that they've done, this kinda stuff just went into the log. They didn't restart the counter because any one system crashed. WTF? None of that should've changed. If it took 12 years, 7 of them in Tibet to get the Intel rig going and the AMD machine was running from day one,,,, That's your answer! I'm sure this has already been said in this thread, but it's really the only thing that needs to be said about bias.

The rest of it was just double speak and smoke and mirrors to find "SOMETHING" that Intel did better on. They spent all that time and restarted the log how many times for the hardware issues w/ Intel but couldn't take the time to address the load balancing issues with Divx for 2 sec's?? I'd wager 9 of 10 posters in this forum could remedy that fairly quickly w/ just small software tweaks.

God, I'm sorry. I had vowed not to add any more to this beast of a thread. my bad.

<font color=blue> That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn! </font color=blue>
 
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