NVIDIA Promises Powerful sub-$45 Processing Platform

[beyond_amusia]

Via made this CPU from scratch, and the MMX and SSE crap is actually bulit into the architecture, not just add-on instrutions like AMD and Intel have. It's also x86/x64, so it'll be future proofed. It was also desinged with multi-core in mind, so I assume it will debute as a single core or dual core and expand from there... I'm dying to see how this will perform again my machine... If it out does it, I found my new PC, lol.

 

[GSG-9]

ya the amount of cores is only usefull for what they are micricoded to do...i personally think 8 cores are pushing it now...after 8 core i wouldnt upgrade for like years because nothing software wise can use it......the only way a 5k core cpu is usefull is if its coded to process grafx physics and regular commands as well as jump out of the case get me a mountain dew and cover my GF in chocolate.

It has to go to the store to get the dew to.

 

[Solaris17]

Via made this CPU from scratch, and the MMX and SSE crap is actually bulit into the architecture, not just add-on instrutions like AMD and Intel have. It's also x86/x64, so it'll be future proofed. It was also desinged with multi-core in mind, so I assume it will debute as a single core or dual core and expand from there... I'm dying to see how this will perform again my machine... If it out does it, I found my new PC, lol.

ya i really want to get a C7-M when i read on them when they first came ot i was like w0ot!!! because the case badge looks awsome umong other things

 

[GSG-9]

w0ot!!! because the case badge looks awsome umong other things

 

[Solaris17]

lol well it does

 

[GSG-9]

lol well it does

is it this one?

it is kinda cool

 

[beyond_amusia]

is it this one?

it is kinda cool

aww... If only it was 3D too...

 

[Solaris17]

is it this one?

it is kinda cool

ya it looks like that but it was yellow and green


hope you guys know that i was just joking i love the case badge but that isnt the only reason ill get the proc

 

[GSG-9]

ya it looks like that but it was yellow and green


hope you guys know that i was just joking i love the case badge but that isnt the only reason ill get the proc

haha yeah but you got me curious

 

[Solaris17]

seems ythey have a few

but i want the yellow one

 

[substance90]

I was beginning to think nvidia was looking for a partner who made cpu's, thought it might have been IBM or maybe slightly intel never thought of via

Actually VIA is the only CPU-making company that seems logical for nVidia to team up with or to buy entirely. Both IBM and Intel are too big for nVidia.

 

[Solaris17]

ha THIS ONE!!!

 

[beyond_amusia]

ha THIS ONE!!!

But that's not the C7-M =P

 

[Solaris17]

well i looke don the via site and their not really different....just ones mobile but i want one with the cool case badge tell me it is not cool

 

[beyond_amusia]

well i looke don the via site and their not really different....just ones mobile but i want one with the cool case badge tell me it is not cool

It's not cool... It don't say Intel all over it, naw, it's it cool.

 

[btarunr]

the C7-M is octa? i thought at the most dual when i heard about it awhile aog...man i wish sun made procs that could do more than run nix and solaris.....their sunblade rigs rock 16 and 8core procs FTW!! and they have had them for years sun had multi core rigs much b4 amd was even x64 id love a gaming rig made with those

A new a funny thing with NVidia is that they're beginning to call a Unified Shader unit a core remember those 9800 GTX ads with the "128 cores" thing?

Yeah right! as if those 'cores' will help in any way with general processing, they're just the GPU's shader units.

^See? that's 1 + 8 = 1 VIA CPU + 8 GPU shader units.

But I'd say, this is an eye-wash, NVidia is wearing an angel's gown and getting inches closer to acquiring VIA.....all for that x86 license.

 

[Mussels]

the latest Nv beta drivers include an inf file for azalia audio over HDMI... it seems Nv are adding audio to something soon, and i'd not be surprised if this was one of those things.

 

[Darkrealms]

A new a funny thing with NVidia is that they're beginning to call a Unified Shader unit a core remember those 9800 GTX ads with the "128 cores" thing?

Yeah right! as if those 'cores' will help in any way with general processing, they're just the GPU's shader units.

^See? that's 1 + 8 = 1 VIA CPU + 8 GPU shader units.

But I'd say, this is an eye-wash, NVidia is wearing an angel's gown and getting inches closer to acquiring VIA.....all for that x86 license.

Unfortunately Nvidia can't get the 86x license for themselves. The VIA license is not transferable. This was discussed a few months back. Nvidia will probably just have to buy the majority of the shares and keep both companies separate.

On the board though. This could revive custom built low end PCs for people! I'm looking at this (CPU, GPU, MOBO =$45), Corsair VS (1gb=$20, 2bg=$40), HDD 80gb=$40, case/psu=$50, DVD burner=$30. Total for a good basic system $200-$250, maybe less : )

 

[btarunr]

Unfortunately Nvidia can't get the 86x license for themselves. The VIA license is not transferable. This was discussed a few months back. Nvidia will probably just have to buy the majority of the shares and keep both companies separate.

Agree it's non-transferable, but if VIA remains as an entity under NVidia (the way Centaur and Cyrix remain as entities under VIA), effectively NVidia can hold the license. That's a loophole in the system. The last I worked on a VIA CPU based machine was somewhere in 2007 (which isn't all that long ago), when the C7 processor's CPU Vendor string showed "CentaurHauls" and not "VIA Technologies". What does it imply? That VIA processors continue to hold the manufacturer strings of the companies that are under VIA (Centaur and Cyrix) and hence continue to hold the license.