Originally posted by halfloaf
Agreed, the idea of point to point connections is well established. Although dated now, SGI used a similar method of interface with their Xtalk architecture...Hence the reason most SGI systems had such large bandwidth paths for moving SD/HD video between the IO-CPU-VIDEO components in the 90's. Hell, what x86 system now can handle uncompressed HD with a dual 600MHZ processor and 8 year old video card?!
Ah, yes, the old SGIs... how could I have forgotten? :blush:
Originally posted by halfloaf
But sadly, things move on...! (or do they?) 
lol!
To make the thread a bit more interesting, name a "new" feature of the i7 and we'll try to think of previous or better example... 
C. P. U. Its not a big processor... Its a series of pipes!
Last edited by The Architect; 12-12-2008 at 12:30 PM.