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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    I don't believe Craig has much of a hand at all in designing this machine outside of some suggestions (a la GP2X/GPH). It seems to me this is another company's project, and Craig is acting as a liason to the GP2X/GP32 community to secure an audience and help them gear the device toward it. I'm...
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    Censorship On The Forum

    Um, not at all. :P The rules are rational and so are the moderators-- who are selected for entirely different reasons than being 'vocal members of a clique' like 'who would actually make a good moderator'. If you repost something that is old, you MIGHT get put on probation for a few hours at the...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    I've seen benchmarks to indicate it however I do not have them here in front of me. It's pretty apparent in any kind of thorough testing though. I've had a PDA with a 624 MHz XScale which I was able to overclock to 730 MHz. It performed slower than my current PDA at those speeds (which has a...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    I don't see the PSX part being a problem. Can't speak for DosBox. Software rendering is the part of PSX emulation that hogs the most CPU cycles, so once a hardware renderer is implemented performance should dramatically improve. I'm sure not every game would run at 60 FPS with No frameskip (The...
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    Censorship On The Forum

    It's no big secret. Just avoiding sensationalism. But I'll admit morbid curiosity at some of the (unexpected) controversy that cropped up. "There's a shapeshifting Epicenter on the loose! It could be anyone!" "Anyone?!" Like WarmFluffyUK said, I'm only here to add helpful info and see if I...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    Have you managed to confirm that the VFPU in the 3D accelerator block is usable as a general purpose coprocessor, or is that conjecture? MagicEyes' documentation does not specify any standalone VFPU block.
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    Censorship On The Forum

    Aside from some calling of names the new thread is staying marginally civil, so far. Aside from a few people calling names and calling me a troll for whatever reason, it's doing better than the last one, at least. I do hope whatever has some people so riled up can put whatever misgivings they...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    Most SoCs with a single processor don't have a more powerful one to compensate; i.e. you'll probably be making a choice between 2 SoCs, with either 1 sub-400 MHz processor or 2. And they're going to be pretty similar parts, in most cases, unless it's a DSP instead of a coprocessor. (In the case...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    The price of the MMSP2+ is clearly less than that of the i.MX31. Even if that doubled the cost of the MMSP2+, it would be a small increase considering it encompasses the majority of the system's hardware. One doesn't need to know the exact ratio of the prices when either one will be so inexpensive.
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    I thought you were implying the prior thread contained this info and thought I'd spare someone looking through 101 pages for it. My mistake.
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    Censorship On The Forum

    Conjecture based on fact is different from a guess, but you're more than entitled to your views. I can't rationalize labelling that as trolling, however. Even if it's at a moderator's discretion to lock a topic, I didn't see a real justification for it. Likewise I can't say that I agree with...
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    Got A Quad Core

    When there's more cores there's more potential failing points, but if clock scalability is anything like the E6600 I tested it should go quite far. Using a Zalman CNPS9500-Cu-LED it was able to reach a staggering 3.5 GHz with only a minor vcore boost, and still ran very cool.
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    A non-MMSP2+ chipset wouldn't limit the appeal to the GP2X community, it would only add the possibility for a more feature-rich device with greater programmer appeal and put a significant dent in power consumption. However the MMSP2+ would be fine so long as the engineers are very careful to...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    The EEE PC does not have "specs to run Halo". That title ran poorly on PCs with 1.5 GHz+ processors, 1GB of RAM or more, and GF5/equivalent Radeon series GPUs. That system utilizes simple onboard Intel graphics meant for basic productivity/business use and not much else. Generally Intel onboard...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    Intel makes processors with all sorts of weird architecture just to sustain a high-clockspeed and try to hide major deficiencies of their design and get people to buy with a high-clock-speed advertising. This was true of the previous generation of Intel desktop processors (Pentium 4/D) however...
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    Our New Machine, Pandora

    The MMSP2+ is BGA as well, and that would be an enormous number of pins to put on a header. I agree that whomever is engineering the device should not waste the chipset's features by leaving them unconnected. A good implementation of USB host capability would unlock a lot of flexibility as well.
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