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250W just for the processor is some serious heat to get rid off - my first house was heated by a 1KW bar fire ... mind you, in the depths of winter we moved into the bedroom!
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Yes I agree, but it's only 250W when it's running at max effort.
Most of the time it will probably be much less.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Many years ago, we had a server with a DEC Alpha CPU that we could use for frying the bacon for our lunch.
The first demo prototypes of the Alpha machines came with a three phase power supply. Before the commercial release they managed to cut down the power requirement so much that a single-phase power supply was sufficient.
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Marc Clifton wrote:
32 cores, eh? How about BFG 9000 ?
I would just call it "ShowOff"... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Duotrigesimacore
Rolls right off the tongue..........NOT! 
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For some reason it reminds me of "vitameatavegamin" from I Love Lucy many, many years ago!
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It's tasty too!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: What would it be called with 32 cores?
'32 cores'
We dont have to use poncy Latin all the time you know. Good old Saxon is perfectly OK.
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Message Closed
modified 10-Sep-18 4:45am.
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Yes, latin numbers. Why do British people feel they have to use latin (or french) words? Why are they ashamed of Saxon ones?
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That was not my point. Hexa is not a Latin prefix. Duotrigesima, however, it is Latin.
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True, although oct is. This just shows the British cant even get that right!
(Probably because they are embarrassed by 'sex' too.  )
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oct is both Greek and Latin.
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And, do you know why computer guys tend to mix up Halloween with Christmas day?
Because 31 oct = 25 dec
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Munchies_Matt wrote: We dont
Munchies_Matt wrote: Good old Saxon is perfectly OK.
Choose one 
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Uh? Dot get you. 
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Easy peasy: "triacontadi-core"
Wikipedia:
In geometry, a triacontadigon (or triacontakaidigon) or 32-gon is a thirty-two-sided polygon. In Greek, the prefix triaconta- means 30 and di- means 2. The sum of any triacontadigon´s interior angles is 5400 degrees. An older name is tricontadoagon.
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Since all these prefixes are from ancient Greek, I presume the 32-core would be called a triacontakaiduo-core (cf. Greek Numbers and Numerals (Ancient and Modern). But honestly... if you want people to understand you, go for "thirtytwo-core"
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6 cores is Esacore. Hexacore is 16 cores (HEXadecimal means base 16).
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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HexaDECIMAL is six + ten = 16.
Hexa is six. A hexagon has six sides, not 16.
Computer guys frequently are not aware of this, so they shorten down hexadecimal to hex, which is certainly not entymologically correct. Some day, but not yet, our language may have changed so that hex means 16 rather than 6.
We have a somewhat similar situation in Norway: Entymologically, 'kilo' means 'thousand', nothing more. In Norway, it has come to mean 'kilogram'. You buy two kilos of flour. The weight of your car is 1200 kilos. No Norwegian questions it. But when Norwegians speak English, and they ask for, say, two kilo pack of flour in the grocery store, they are not understood.
The day 'hex' has changed meaning from 6 to 16, how will you explain to your kid why a hexagon has only 6 sides?
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When I got my first 6-core machine, I named it Sixpack.
The 32 you could call the female way: "29 and a few months".
A little more masculine: "The Fifth Power Machine".
If you want to get historical, you could name it Germanium. Germanium has atomic number 32, and was the first semiconductor material used for transistors and diodes.
What about "Twice legal"? Or is that too close to the suggested "XXX II Core"?
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Quote: I call my car Robert. It is a red Ford.
I call my car Clifford, it is a Ford Edge so I can call it Cliff Edge.
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