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Offline DethKnight

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Re: Inside the IBM PowerPC 970
« on: October 29, 2002, 08:48:06 AM »
yeah, likewise
as this is going to be my next cpu purchase, whence it becomes available
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Re: Inside the IBM PowerPC 970
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2002, 06:18:44 AM »
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the mystic G5 we've all heard about.


lol; same comment on the bottom of this page ->

http://www.architosh.com/news/2002-10/2002c-1023-mcp7457-rm1.phtml
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Re: Inside the IBM PowerPC 970
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2002, 06:23:24 AM »
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Now all we need is a chipset that supports it


maybe IBM has one, who knows....further speculation esp.
re:BladeCenter servers here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/27827.html


4 ddr in parallel...... seems like several reviewers comment that the ppc970 is designed to be very SMP or AMP friendly, almost as if intended to be non-solo.
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