@ Tigger
Yes I know that it has been put together mainly from standard (but state of the art) "x86 technology". But they have really gone as far as possible in their efforts to remove bottle necks, don't you think? OK, I don't really know, but how common is 2x 1GHz FSB? Memory would perhaps be a bottleneck (would RAMBUS/RIMM perhaps be better?), but "this high-performance frontside bus architecture enables each PowerPC G5 processor to discover and access data in the other processor’s L1 and L2 caches for ultrafast performance" will benefit from this, as well as data shoveling to/from the hypertransport connected I/O, the PCI and PCI-X, AGP, etc. And what about the "Point to Point controller" which shovels data around without even bothering the CPU's and the processor bus? Isn't that even a little "Amiga-like"? Perhaps I am wrong, but I really think this is the most innovative design this far, and I have not seen this on any desktop x86 motherboard, but perhaps I have only missed it? OK, perhaps "innovation" is a too strong word, we are basically talking about removing bottle necks, but at least this focus on removing bottle necks and not *only* pumping up the CPU MHz is a (at least tiny) breath of fresh air? ;-)
