So many changes and news

[Mictlan]

Well, as you may recall I needed to go offsite to make some work (and than would be taking 2 more weeks), but today I returned home for a break this weekend and found several news:

1.-Seems that Kris has made some changes in his life. I shall add my congratulations about your new work and baby and wish you the best of lucks in all of your new projects. I wish it it from the bottom of my hearth.

2.-We have kicked some serious @$$es last month. Keep on crunching all of you.

3.-Let me welcome all new members to the only team to crunch for.

4.-Finally, Tim, what have been your experience with the dual Tualatins. I read at other forum that they been smoking. What times have you achieved with them? I might try to get my hands of the new DVD-266u mobo to make a dual Tualtins right at home.

5.-Chawken, how did the Munskin 2400DDR memory turned out?

:p :p :p :p :p
6.-Finally, I just reached the 500 WU milestone.....Need some more time to reach the top 100, but I'm working in it.

[Morpheus]

Mictlan... thanks...

It is contrary to my nature for me to forsake a responsibility... On some level, I feel I have let the team down... & I am truly sorry about that..

But with my wife so ill with morning sickness, a new job next week, & the POSSIBILITY OF TWINS, my 110% attention is needed here at home...

Hey CONGRATS!!! on the milestone... :)

Crunch on my friend!!!

[TC]

Good to have you back with us.

The Tualatins are smokin - actually I was dumbfounded to find out that they are right up there with my Athlon MP. I believe it's the extra bit of cache that helps out the most. I sold the dual mobo since it didn't allow overclocking. I wanted to see how much I could get out of these. Bought 2 Asus Tusl2c's because most of the reviews say the Asus board is the highest quality. Even though it does not allow core voltage adjustment it seems to overclock just as well as the ones that do - must be a tradeoff in quality components and better engineering.

Anyway at around 1500 they're finishing most units in a range of 3 hrs 15 mins to 3 hrs 50 mins. I've only seen a handful of VLAR units just a hair over 4 hours. Really amazing - my P4 @ 2GHz averages 3:30 most of the time.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I played with the 1.2gig Tualatin a while back. The 1.2GHz 256K version is not nearly this fast. I read somewhere at Anandtech that they were speculating Intel added some tweaks to the 1.26GHz 512K version - mostly in respect to the data path from cache to core. I would have to say they did something, although I don't know what. Once again it blows my mind that the original Pentium core is still kicking with just a few tweaks and some die shrinks. AMD has done well with the Athlon, and Intel has tripped a few times lately, but damn you have to give it up for the engineering that went into this architecture years ago.

[Cy]

Congratulations on the big 500 Mictlan!

Cy