Quote: "Not good at maths, but I think they're very slim. Damn how I loved that core, I mean, that PC still runs minecraft FAR render distance like a beast. I've seen modern PC do worse. Also I loved the fact that sometimes windows decided that instead of 1gb I only had 512mb of RAM, just cause he felt like it. "
looks like your CPU was damaged. My amd gave me BSODs during some games
I dont know how many ALU units modern CPUs have, but i recentley learned that a russian company- MCST restarted manufacturing and development of their own CPUs called ELBRUS. These CPUs are for the army market so far. You say your cpu isnt good at maths well Elbrus CPUs specialize in it. they have i think 6 ALUs, can emulate x86 (they are based on their own instruction set). But the most interesting part is these CPUs are 500 mhz but they easily beat any pentium 3 cpu and in some areas, their performance is as good as a 2ghz p4. Also they dont need cooling. at all because they barley give off any heat, and they can withstand temperatures up to 300c and continue working without any negative effects on the performance. Also they usually have 4 of these CPUs on a motherboard to make up for the low cpu speed. They even made an army laptop based on this CPU
this thing runs MSVS OS which is a unix based OS developed by the russian military and it supports GPS and GLONASS which is a russian GPS-like system (not many devices these days that support both systems). I really want this laptop just to screw around with it. Also while my coworkers have HPs and Dells, i wanna see their reaction if i come to work with this thing lol. For a while now,
So far MCST makes computers just for the military, but they did say that their production would soon be avaliable on the public market but that was 2 years ago and me along with hundreds of other geeks are desperatley waiting for this stuff to be avaliable
Right now MCST are developing a new Elbrus-S cpu which is supposed to be like 1ghz quadcore i think. Other than elbrus there are other russian CPUs which are all 300-500 mhz. Just Elbrus is their main project right now.
This might look like really crappy outdated stuff, but russian compouter industry pretty much stopped in 1990 Then they decided restart it in 1996, when MCST company partnered up with AMD and started making AMD cpus for the russian market. So thee was a large 6-7 year hole in the industry and now they are trying to catch up. and i think they are doing a pretty good job at it too and if they continue developing, i hope they come out with something actually cool and move to the open market. I want like an MCST Elbrus GTZX19999XTZ videocard lol
btw this reminds me and i want to share this. I have been to the city where MCST and the rest of russian computer industry is focused Its called Zelenograd which means Green-city (and there is actually a lot of green there lots of parks little traffic population 200k, and the city is extremeley clean and has an overall happy positive atmosphere to it. And the people there love their city and are really proud of it. What i thought was the coolest thing about the city is the official city emblem on their flag is a picture of a CPU.
i think thats the best flag ever, next time i am there i will buy myself one. Also the city has no street names at all, its weird but people there navigate by district name and building number
thats all
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