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System Name | Budget Box |
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Processor | Xeon E5-2667v2 |
Motherboard | ASUS P9X79 Pro |
Cooling | Some cheap tower cooler, I dunno |
Memory | 32GB 1866-DDR3 ECC |
Video Card(s) | XFX RX 5600XT |
Storage | WD NVME 1GB |
Display(s) | ASUS Pro Art 27" |
Case | Antec P7 Neo |
Bulldozer was a response to Netburst, a frequency-happy, ALU-heavy architecture with a weak FPU. Problem is, Netburst failed and was taken behind the barn just as Bulldozer launched. AMD’s design was years in the making, when Intel was taking about 10GHz processors by 2011. Had we all been running Netburst-optimized architecture, there’s no telling what we’d be looking at. Instead, Intel pivoted to high-IPC Core and that made Bulldozer an unoptimized bust.
For what it’s worth, this isn’t new. The i486SX was a i486DX with the FPU disabled, and there was such a confusing thing as a Core 2 Solo. Either way, this lawsuit is pretty late to the party!
For what it’s worth, this isn’t new. The i486SX was a i486DX with the FPU disabled, and there was such a confusing thing as a Core 2 Solo. Either way, this lawsuit is pretty late to the party!