AHEM! You don't see this too often!

[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

[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?

[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.

[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

[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.