Posted 11/03/2008 at 11:35:37am

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=929192

Currently a 965 is at 2,260 RAC at rosetta@home and climbing.  As you know, it takes a month or more to reach maximum RAC. A Skulltrail maxes out over 5,200.  This is very much a progress report.  I expect this processor to get into the Rosetta Top 10 by Christmas.

Rosetta reports internal benchmark: 3296 Floating point million ops/second and 8945.9 integer million ops/sec.

I haven't done Folding@Home on this proc as I'm an FAH GPU fan. 

 Overall, the Core i7 model 965 is exactly as reported in the various benchmark reviews out today.  It absolutely screams at multi-tasking.  Roughly the same performance as a Skulltrail (and sometimes more) for thousands $$$ less.

Hope this helps.  

- Pete 

Posted 11/03/2008 at 11:05:09am

The pin-out will be around for a couple of years, which is as long as anybody can expect. Next year, it's likely the same socket will house a) an 8-core CPU and b) a CPU-GPU marriage with Larrabee.

Posted 07/27/2008 at 12:57:14pm

The free app at http://lifehacker.com/396881/turn-your-xbox-360-into-a-streaming-netflix-player will let you stream Netflix instant movies to your xBox 360 today, and you won't have to spring for a Gold membership.

With a PC, Apple TV, xBox 360 and whatever my cable company gets around to eventually, I already have too many video sources.  It's the consolidation that I'm looking for.  The shareware Netflix-toxBox app (above) is an example of what I am looking for.

-- Pete