#14, Yeah, but he made it funnier.
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thermistor |
Isn't it spelled 'skillz', you know, the z on the end is some sort of urban, hip, cool thing...reply to #7.
This goes in the same category as people souping up riding mowers and having mower races. Yeah, the mower will never be fast, but the people doing it want to have the fastest mower they can get.  |
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Vrock |
WTF is it with foreigners and liquid nitrogen anyway? You never hear about guys in the US doing this. It's always some kid in Asia or something (or in this case Austraila).
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Xenolith |
Still can't play Left 4 Dead. Once he develops a hack to install a better GPU, then I'll listen.
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Bombadil |
Some power numbers off my Eee PC 1000HA (LCD off, wireless on):
Idle @ 495MHz 8.5W Orthos @ 990MHz 10.5W Idle @ 1010MHz 10.5W Orthos @ 2019MHz 14.5W ATITool+Orthos @ 2019MHz 18.5W http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51102&highlight= The lack of ability to raise memory timings from the DDR2-533 SPD values is the overclocking wall. |
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BoBzeBuilder |
With such a low TDP why doesn't intel release a 2.0ghz atom and make us all happy?
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What is really even the point? Atoms are just plain slow CPUs, made for largely incapable computers. You have the ability to make it go 2 GHz on some, but it's still not even going to be close to an Athlon 64.
I don't think they're really worried about "cannibalizing" higher margin chips. I believe it costs something like $1 to make an Atom, but they're sold for quite a bit. There's a dual core model, after all.
It's just cheap and slow, and easy on the battery. There's no point beyond that.
If there's any "Why can't they just..." for Atom based computers, I'd say, the question to be asking is why they can't switch to a more efficient motherboard. AMD is going to be walking all over them once the low voltage Athlon 64s become prevalent, but I don't believe Intel has announced any sort of change.