Standard component replacement in gateways?

Wirenfeldt Jr · **Joined:**Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:38 am **Posts:**4

is it possible to replace the first CPU in a gateway with a more powerful one? (and the same goes for RAM)

BTW it is a kick ass mod..

Ash · **Joined:**Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:33 am **Posts:**6

yes, just buy one more of the type, it overrides it.

eg: I have alpha /cpu, I buy two 500ghz cpu's and the first one overrides the one that was stock with your first gateway

FinalWarrior · PostPosted:Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:08 pm

New hardware will override old hardware, so you can keep upgrading as you go.

-- Griffinhart

Wirenfeldt Jr · **Joined:**Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:38 am **Posts:**4

thanks for the tip.. worked like a charm

Hawk_v3 · **Joined:**Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:45 am **Posts:**204

Speakng of hardware, I recall there were some CPUs called... "Asynchronous Hyper 500Gqs" in the Onlink Laboratories server..

Something like that. The impression the description gives makes it sound like it works as a new CPU without replacing the old one. Is this right, or am I missing something?

Ash · **Joined:**Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:33 am **Posts:**6

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Speakng of hardware, I recall there were some CPUs called... "Asynchronous Hyper 500Gqs" in the Onlink Laboratories server..

Something like that. The impression the description gives makes it sound like it works as a new CPU without replacing the old one. Is this right, or am I missing something?

no, it's a completely different cpu.

back story is that it's multiple CPUs in one slot, much how the current core duo/quad/i7 works.

Vaius · PostPosted:Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:33 pm

Specifically, hyper-threading, allowing two threads to be run through a single core at once, virtualizing the effect of double the cores you really have in that cpu. (i.e., the "Nehalem" i7 Intel CPUs with four cores run as if they have 8 cores)

Hawk_v3 · **Joined:**Sat Nov 17, 2007 8:45 am **Posts:**204

Right. Thank you.

Miah · **Joined:**Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:00 am **Posts:**1263

You're thinking of the Nanos. They've been around since pre-hiatus.

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The Asynchronous Streaming SIMD Extensions (ASSE) instruction set does not consist of any new instructions, as popular opinion would indicate. ASSE is a compilation of current instruction sets with a relatively minor twist: it does not obey any internal clocking mechanism.

The idea behind this was to allow instructions to complete as fast as they could, rather than be paced to other, slower ones. This used the original technology of the pre-emptive instruction handling, originally found in the first chips that met and subsequently broke the 200 GHz barrier. This allows instructions to execute without waiting for others to finish. While this produces only picoseconds of saved time, the speed improvement is clear if a computer is running billions, trillions, or quadrillions of instructions per second.

Chips with the ASSE set do not, naturally, have a true clock speed. However, for scaleability purposes, Uplink Laboratories has tested several models for a comparable speed using a worst case scenario. Naturally, customers will find their processors behaving much faster than the listed speed, as a worst case setting is uncommon and is not likely to remain for long.

Standard component replacement in gateways?

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