It's not about the OS benefiting from it. Most OS's don't need to much memory.
This is for other applications that need large amounts of memory. Such as Servers and 3D design.
@Proxy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
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And eventually, in the far future, we should have quantum dot memory.
GraphicsWhore: Maybe you should have actually read the page he linked to.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/e...
And your right, enterprise supports 128GB. And so does Ultimate :).
Ultimate isn't less user friendly. It's just more bloated with extra crap.
You were thinking of Home Premium. If your someone who would actually need more...
This can actually create 64GB sticks.
The current design right now is only a 1 sided RAM stick. But you can double side them. I have double sided sticks in my PC right now.
That is one ignorantly asinine post.
Microsoft said their going to be bringing DX11 to Vista also. But obviously not until Windows 7 is released.
You don't need to upgrade your GPU every 6 months lol. Do you upgrade your console every 6 months? No? That's what I thought. So why should you need to with your GPU? It's just like a console, it performs the same always. The new high end GPU's are mainly for PC enthusiast's who like to have the latest and best, and have the mone...
Yeah, Once we start getting down to really small fabrication processes, SSD's will be amazing. The smaller the fab, the more room for memory. Within 2 years we will have 1TB SSD's out, and the size will keep multiplying every 2-4 years.
It's a Winner in innovative design, that's about it. Performance wise and price wise, it hardly holds a flame to competitors.
Lol, Windows 7 isn't that much more resource hogging than XP. The optimizations and benefits in brings greatly outweigh the minor amount of extra RAM it uses. If your still using 1GB of Ram or less.. Then it's high time you add another RAM stick or 2 to your computer. Basic ram that most people have is pretty cheap these days.
Actually no... The GPU has to have a new instruction set and architecture to handle AI systems.
Sure it could probably be done by a coder, but it would have to be built from the ground up to work on the GPU. Most AI systems are part of a game engine a developer uses, not created from scratch for every new game that comes out. The AI is just tweaked/changed around to fit their game.
What Nvidia and ATI want to do is enable their GPU's to handle the current way AI syst...
@Foxgod: CPU's are HORRIBLE at doing physics calculations compared to a GPU.
Maybe you should go educated yourself on the improvements Windows 7 brings to the table. It's not about the GUI. It's about all the work that's been done under the hood. And they did a ton of it.
Windows 7 is worth the upgrade, unlike Vista. Because it runs as fast as XP, if not faster. It has DirectX 11, which your going to want in the future for gaming. They heavily optimized every nook and cranny of the OS and have managed to majorly improve performance.
It really is gr...
Non-existent.
The niche that Mac's fill, will vanish in the future. Not to mention it's appeal will lessen when Job's dies or quits.
25 years is a long time in computer technology.
@zagibu: I don't see how heat would be an issue. It's not a GPU and a CPU stacked on top of each other. It's a die with a unique architecture.
And also, by the time we get to the point of this, the fabrication size will be so small that heat will not be an issue. We will be past 11nm fab by the time this kind of thing is even starting to be developed in a serious way. The smaller and smaller fabrication becomes, the less heat becomes a problem.
Intel will be releasing 32nm ...
What hardware is in your computer?
On a side note. I'd like to see people install OS X on thousands of different PC configurations, and there not be some fatal error on at least one of them. People bash Microsoft OS's for crashing for some people. But that's because it has to try and work on every single piece of hardware out there. It's not designed for a select few over priced systems like an Apple OS is. Apple doesn't have to worry about some manufacturer not creating a well w...
The GPU is an example of where CPU's are heading. CPU's are just capable of doing certain types of calculations that a GPU isn't made for. Generations down the road they will eventually be one in the same. A processor. No GPU's or CPU's... Just a Processor lol.
I'm still waiting for a real Pokemon MMO.. C'mon, that would make an awesome MMO. Most of the outlines are already there and obvious. And they would earn billions lol.
Well, within 10 years transistors will be at the atomic scale. Being only a bunch of atoms big.
Here is a nice read about fabrication process's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
There's a chart on the right showing the different sizes of fabrication transitions that will be happening every 1-2 years. 22nm CPU's will be out in 2011... not very far away lol. Getting closer and closer to smalle...
8800 GT = 754 Million Transistors, 90nm fab, GDDR3, 504 GigaFLOPS.
GTX 280 = 1.4 Billion Transistors, 65nm fab, GDDR3, 933 GigaFLOPS.
GTX 212 = 1.8 Billion Transistors, 40nm fab, GDDR5, ??? atleast 1.2 PetaFLOPS.
@xlx-russ_92:
No it won't actually. The current GTX 280/260 chips have 1.4 Billion transistors.. So this upcoming chip is only 400 Million more transistors. Not to mention it's going to be on 40nm, thus the die size will be smaller, thus reducing cost.
So in conclusion, the cost of this new chip will be around the same as a GTX 280. (Although the whole card may be a bit more due to DDR5 prices.) But it's still going to be cheaper than a GTX 280x2 and faster since it's a s...
Well, if it was done in 40nm and all the motherboard chips were actually integrated into the CPU. And the CPU design itself was something like a less powerful Intel Atom, of smaller size. And you used a cheap ass mass produced screen, with the CPU stuck on a simple motherboard with 1 USB slot and maybe a few other connectors at most. Then put a shell around that..
One could probably create a laptop for roughly $20-$40