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Cygwin Windows, FreeBSD systems tested the GCC -O3 compiler Optimization
AMD Sempron 3100+ benchmarked " From theinquirer.net
Intel Grantsdale motherboards will be fixed in July 2004
Socket 755, look Ma no pins!
Intel's Alderwood/Grantsdale Chipsets Good photos of socket 755 , from article on BTX
Information on New BTX form Factor
BTX formfactor for Silent Computing
Its All About The Pentiums, MP3 Music song
2/2/04 Intel Prescott Released
"The nondisclosure agreement on Intel's long awaited new Pentium 4, codenamed Prescott, has just been lifted. So can it beat its predecessor, the Northwood? Find out at Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, or any of the other thousand review sites." Or HotHardware, PC Magazine, XBitLabs, or HardOCP. Basically, looks like it's faster, but still not the fastest in all areas
ZDNet -
Intel Prescott: the benchmarks
This includes power consumption also.
You can identify a Prescott Pentium 4 by the ‘E’ that follows the clock speed -- as in, ‘Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology 3.40E GHz’
AMD's Roadmap revealed - January 13 2004 on SlashDot
Processor Consumption table on some other site
Tom's Hardware - Hot Spot - How Modern Processors Cope With Heat Emergencies This has a very graphic video of an AMD CPU smoking
Get the Divx video codec needed to play the clip at Video Technology Magazine
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Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project
Bochs is an open source implementation of the x86 instruction set(s) and a virtual PC (al la VMWare) which is capable of booting FreeDOS and Linux under the host control of another OS."
2/2/04 NEWS: Version 2.1 Release of the Bochs IA-32 Emulator is out.
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Virtutech Simics is a full system simulation platform
AMD HAMMER K8 Series of 64 Bit processors
AMD 64 Bit & Opteron resource on this site
Did you know AMD has a Cool ' n ' Quiet mode on the Athlon 64 CPU's this seems to drop power consumption about .50 Watts
Intel Itanium 64 Bit processor
High res Photo of Intel P4 Chip die
MindShare , downloadable book store Has many good books on everything from AGP to PCI-X
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Intel 80386<Processor> (Commonly abbreviated to "386", trademark "Intel386") The successor to the Intel 80286 microprocessor It was the first Intel processor with 32-bit data and address busses called IA-32. It can address four gigabytes (2^32 bytes) of memory; however, 16 megabytes is a typical maximum in IBM PCs. The 386 allows multiple application programs to run at the same time (when running under 386-specific operating systems) using " protected mode".
The 80386 initially shipped at 16 MHz in October 1985, making it faster than any Intel version of the 80286. Note, some others had overclocked 286 Processers up to 20Mhz.
It did not require special EMS memory boards to expand
MS-DOS memory limits like the 80286 did. With the 386, the EMS standard can be
simulated in normal extended memory, and many DOS add-ons
provide this "Expanded Memory Manager" feature.
This was the first X86 processor that could eliminate the 64K memory segmentation issued that programmers had to deal with Some of the first operating systems to support the 386 processor was Bill Jolitz's 386BSD, BSDI's BSD386, Bill evans's Minix 386, and Linux. Then Microsoft Windows 3.1 . |
Gen 1
MMX Multi media Extentions
Gen 2
MMX2 / SSE "Streaming SIMD Extensions" / KNI "Katmai New Instructions" because the Pentium III (code-name Katmai)
AMD had 3DNow!
Gen 3
SSE2 "Streaming SIMD Extensions 2"
AMD had Advanced 3DNow!
Gen 4?
SSE3 The Prescott chip also supports 13 extra PNI (Prescott New Instructions) commands. However, no applications yet support the new Prescott instructions, so they are currently irrelevant in practice.
Intel SSE MMX2 KNI documentation
The Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions
Intel Technology Journal, Q3 1997 Issue
Pentium® III Processor Implementation Tradeoffs
3 1/2 SIMD Architectures by Jon Stokes
JC's Home Page , excellent resource on CPU information
