Hitting up the Intel booth finally provided us with the single most important element of Computex – booth babes.
 | | There is so much PVC at this show, we swear they enlisted an entire third world nation to produce it. |
 | | The Intel ‘booth’ is by far the biggest show room in the show. |
The room featured a lot of Intel’s current technology, and a 45nm quad core machine was set up, pitted against a 65nm machine in a bizarrely obscure benchmark, in which the 45nm won convincingly. Intel assures us that the clock speeds and FSBs of both systems were identical, the 45nm machine essentially winning out by around three seconds. The win may have had something to do with the 4MB of extra cache at its disposal. As usual though company run benchmarks should be taken with a grain of salt, so wait until you see the review in Atomic first.
Of course there were other things on display…
 | | Intel had its Solid State Drives on show. |
 | | Nothing like some good old enterprise pr0n. This thing claims to be able to hold up to 40 processors per enclosure, which gives you up to 160 cores. |
 | | Even Intel can’t escape fatal errors. |
 | | An entire wall of 3-series boards, all of them different. |
We had a very brief moment to explore after Intel, which uncovered these odd things – a track ball you can hold in your hand like a gun.
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