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AHEM! You don't see this too often!
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Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:24 amby congo
"....we can state that the Athlon64 is currently the most sensible choice in the high end desktop segment."
Tom's Hardware Guide
http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboar ... index.html
Re: AHEM! You don't see this too often!
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Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:00 pmby bm
December 2003? - Thats yonks ago! Aww well they got it right
Even more so with the new socket change.
I'm just praying FS2006 will be in 32bit!
What do you think?
Re: AHEM! You don't see this too often!
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Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:57 pmby congo
I think it would be commercial suicide to build software for the mass market in exclusive 64bit, it won't happen, at least not for quite a while.
I'm not at all educated in software developement, but I can imagine that programming 64bit software to the point where it is actually using it's potential is going to very expensive.
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Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:44 amby bm
Then by the time 64bit software is commonplace none of these current AMD64's will be powerful enough to run it - Games anyway.
The AMD's are better though, It was just far too new for me to go for seven months ago. What I didn't know about was the cool and quiet mechanism, I always thought AMD's ran hot and required tons of fans - But then so does my P4!..... I guess it
Re: AHEM! You don't see this too often!
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Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:28 amby Gixer
I think AMD's did used to run quite hot. My old system which my g/friend now has runs hot I know that and its a 1333mhz thunderbird I think FSB266. The case gets nice an toasty by the cpu anyhow! Still it carries on working day after day though hehe.
My current AMD an XP2800+ @2198mhz FSB up from 333 to 350 runs nice an cool. I just reseated my coolmaster cpu fan using artic silver (This time the right amount) and my temps have dropped even more. I do have 5 case fans too though. My idle temp is 38-41 full load is 44-46 ;D
When my new ram arrives looks like I am gonna be able to clock the FSB a bit more hehehe.