now this tech is a lil over a year old now, maybe I'll get one for my computer case I'll be building 

Ok, THAT one is on my list! Could you imagine the flight sim we could program using a pair of those and the shuttle Enterprise?

I like it,

Wonder if you could get a dual motherboard  , have two of the little beauties. 

Not sure one would be enough.   

Neither is Intel, they want 10,000 of them to make a super computer.

At the speeds and such that those chips run, and given the whole "diminishing returns" quandary, 10,000 of those would likely only net around 5 petaflops - But still, that's 5x10¹⁵ - or 5,000,000,000,000,000 operations per SECOND! :O

2 would be great, with a dual board and a NVIDIA Tesla C870 quad GPU HPC system of course 

now all's we need is funds, where is that money tree growing again 

Gee...imagine how fast you could play Tic-Tac-Toe with one of those!!
Or I think it might be noughts and crosses for you Brits...right?

"Shall.. we.. play.. a.. Game?"

Quote from: DaveMorton on September 05, 2012, 23:47:43 PM
"Shall.. we.. play.. a.. Game?"

As long as it's not intercontinental thermonuclear war!

I wonder how long it will take for games to be optimized to use all 50 of those cores if they make a consumer addition for personal pc 

Generally speaking, if a game is optimized to take advantage of multiple cores, it matters little how many cores there are. On the other hand, Operating systems seem to be another matter,

Most games seen to like 3 cores plus 1 core for windows. This may well be a legacy of the Xbox as it has 3 cores.
More cores than this seem a waste at the moment but not for long I'm sure.

3D printer, Oh yea!!!  I gotta get me one or build one someday.

What a brilliant idea, I do wonder though, how long it would be before the whole structure became habitable. I did buy a new house many years ago and vowed never to buy another. Several years of "Drying" and "Settling" was more than enough for me.

I was also wondering, do you think this guy was once stuck in a car wash and thought, "there must be a much better use for this machine".  

Habitable in about 3-6 month I would think, but settlement repairs needed for at least the rest of it's time standing.

I would not want a 3d printer of that size, The one made by http://www.makerbot.com/ seems about the size I would want.

QuoteI was also wondering, do you think this guy was once stuck in a car wash and thought, "there must be a much better use for this machine".  Tongue

That is a funny thought