[dasli]

interesting....
thanks:)

[katana]

Originally Posted by Razer

Isn't that a mac pro? Mac Pro's are the massive tower systems. Usually pretty powerful. I don't follow mac's tbh.

nah, thats a Powermac G3

the Mac Pro is in a aluminium case, and it replaced the powermac.

[Razer]

Ah, I was on the right lines at least.

Speaking of old computers, Who remembers how reliable old PC parts are compared to the newer chinsey parts we see so much today? The days when a Pentium 4 could take on half a power station and soldier on and the new dual or quads can take almost no voltage boost before expiring in a cloud of silicon based bits..

[SimonTrucker]

Originally Posted by 4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie

C++ - really? That surprises me, because I thought a lot of modern stuff, like Sky say actually just uses C, because it's cheaper or something like that?

I can't put hand to heart n swear it was C++, but I'm pretty sure it was. At least I was until I looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

It would seem the before VGA graphics, the C64 at least used - "The graphics chip, VIC-II, features 16 colors, eight hardware sprites per scanline ", (from the Wikipedia link above).

[Razer]

16 colours? Isn't that about the same number of colours normally available in MS paint??

Just a thought ;)

[katana]

Originally Posted by Razer

Ah, I was on the right lines at least.

Speaking of old computers, Who remembers how reliable old PC parts are compared to the newer chinsey parts we see so much today? The days when a Pentium 4 could take on half a power station and soldier on and the new dual or quads can take almost no voltage boost before expiring in a cloud of silicon based bits..

speaking of pentium 4's being tough,
I was getting one (socket 478) ready to put in a PC about a week back, but i accidently dropped the chip onto concrete and one of the pins broke off

i don't how or why, but the chip still worked fine. then i went on and put 1.7 volts through it, bumped the fsb up to 165.
that P4 is a good chip.

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by katana

i don't how or why, but the chip still worked fine. then i went on and put 1.7 volts through it, bumped the fsb up to 165.
that P4 is a good chip.

There are a lot of redundant pins on most CPU, especially Powers and Grounds.

[Carbon]

Originally Posted by Razer

Ah, I was on the right lines at least.

Speaking of old computers, Who remembers how reliable old PC parts are compared to the newer chinsey parts we see so much today? The days when a Pentium 4 could take on half a power station and soldier on and the new dual or quads can take almost no voltage boost before expiring in a cloud of silicon based bits..

Probably because they took half a power station to run at stock in the first place! :p

[Razer]

And I wonder why my PC hummed.. Bugs flew past and were hit by small lightning bolts :P

It is true though, as fast as components today are, and lets admit it, they are fast, they aren't as tough as the old ones. People brag about overclocking to 6GHz and such but 6GHz on older chips was possible much more easily. The architecture in Pentium 4's went up to 10GHz in terms of it's limit. That's a lot! Although the heat at such speed would be immense..

[Carbon]

Yeah, but to be fair you're doing a crazy amount more work per clock on Core 2 than on NetBurst. 3ghz P4s have a hard time playing back 1080p video or not bottlenecking even budget video cards, whereas the same is not true for low-clocked early model Core 2 Duos.

Also I'm pretty sure they didn't go up to 10ghz at all, that was the intended scaling by Intel but they pretty quickly realized that the end result would be equivalent in power input and heat output to nuclear fusion.