Very interesting.

Of course that is aimed at servers but with multi-core processors becoming more an more common in personal computers you know it won't be long before that technology starts showing up in personal computers.

5 years maybe?

... One might almost think you didn't even bother to read the title, much less the link.

We're talking about a 64 core processor, not the 64 bit OS (which I agree, is goign to be teh standard very soon).

That said, isn't the 32 bit memory cap four gigs? Otherwise, it'd be awfully hard to manage the 3 gigs most people recommend for Vista gaming (though you are right that its shared with your video card).

I'm quite sure its 4 gigs memory, just like an application is size-limited to 4 gigs (if it tries to go over 2 gigs it crashes because half of that is allocated to the kernel for stuff like drivers, unless you've tweaked your bootup settings).

64 core is going to be a rediculously slow processor, just the distance from two opposite cores would be an issue.

and 64s have compatability issues and run 32 bit processes slower. I prefer screwing around with a 32 to get it to use more than 2 gigs per process, and then getting the patch from microsoft. (here refering to vista)

you can get a file off of the supcom forums that adds the header to .exe files.

highspeed or no highspeed, I dont care. theres simply the matter of distance.


and thats even forgetting the fact these things probably have high error rates.

I only use it where I need it. currently thats limited solely to supcom.