03/15/2008 3:21:37 PM PDT
· 8 of 29 TxCopper
to The Great RJ
The poster kinda didn’t give you all the information about the list. Only individuals can give contributions to Federal election candidates. The names on the list are merely employer/affiliation.
You are right about the death of Intel FSB. “Quick Path” is going to be in the new Nehalem & Sandy Creek x86 processors. It is going to be a lot like what AMD has used since the Athlon 64 was introduced in ‘02-’03. Quick Path will have a much greater bandwidth than AMD’s current HyperTransport 3.
On the Intel side, the FSB is the system reference clock, "quad-pumped." Memory speed can vary depending on the chipset of the mainboard. Also it depends on whether it is DDR2 or DDR3 . They run at different speeds.
For example, the "Core 2" Q6600 runs at 2400 Mhz(266 x 9). The FSB is 1066 Mhz (266*4.) PC-6400 DDR2 runs at 400 Mhz, bi-directionally.
FSB is just the interface between the processor and the northbridge of the mainboard.
I guess it depends on the state. In '04 & 06 when I did early voting, it was on an ATM style machine with no printout after I was done. My vote/ballot was saved on a memory card.
In 2000, however, it was on a scan-tron type of machine that read my choices as it collected the ballot.
I was with 2 friends watching that abortion of a "debate." One says to me: "What in the "f" was that?" And I must say...If you were watching that night, then you probably heard it too.