Sony advances the Supercomputer - rumor US govt to buy millions of ps4s

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wvelting said:

maxnyc said:

SOny has single-handedly advanced the notion of a "supercomputer" for years now. A turbo-charged supercomputer on steroids, the ps4 will mark the pinnacles of graphics and high-end computng horsepower. There's no doubt that the pS4 will makr the dramatic rise of Sony as they reclaim the supercomputer market for themselves. It's rumored that the US govt will be purchasing millions of ps4's to run their top-secret servers and do all their supercomputing and domestic spying. For reference please see this historic documentary- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2w2l1JTs4

This is the exact same crap that was said about the PS2 then the PS3....The "real" super computers that are availabe today make the PS4 look like a Commodore 64.  In fact, My 1 1/2 old PC is specked higher than the PS4.

So your 1 1/2 year old pc has 8 gigs of DDR5 ram? Cool. I didn't think you could build a pc with DDR5 SYSTEM ram today, and you did it 1 1/2 years ago, cool. Actually, you can only buy MOBOs that use ddr, ddr2 or ddr3 Ram modules today! DDR5 is quad pumped so its transfer rates are twice as high as DDR3. The PS4 is using DDR5 for system ram, that's twice as fast as any motherboard system ram you can use today (DDR3).