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IceDigger - Nov 1, 2003

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		IceDigger		Nov 1, 2003
			Anybody have one of those new Athlon FX's yet? I'm thinking of upgrading my old p4 3.0c to one soon and am curious if anybody has any experience with them?

		racketboy		Nov 1, 2003
			do you have a 64-bit OS you plan on using?

		Dyne		Nov 1, 2003
			arent they still like 500-700 bucks?

		Alexvrb		Nov 1, 2003
			I'd wait until MS releases their x86-64 version of Windows, personally. By then prices will be better, and there will be more software that supports its 64-bit extensions. Divx is going to support it shortly, man that'd make for some killer encoding.

		IceDigger		Nov 1, 2003
			It wont be going on a MS based OS.

mal

Nov 2, 2003

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by IceMan2k@Nov 2, 2003 @ 04:23 AM



Anybody have one of those new Athlon FX's yet?



I'm thinking of upgrading my old p4 3.0c to one soon and am curious if anybody has any experience with them?

Your OLD p4 3.0???

mg:

Give it to me!

		Curtis		Nov 2, 2003
			If you are looking for an upgrade, I hear the "extreme edition" P4's outperform the FX chips on every app except gaming. Should be able to keep the old motherboard too. What can't you do with a P4 3Gig?

		MasterAkumaMatata		Nov 2, 2003
			I find it strange that Ice would rather upgrade his processor (P4 3.0C GHz) instead of his video card (ATi Radeon 9700 Pro). :looney

		Resident_Lurker		Nov 2, 2003
			I guess that makes my 1.7GHz ancient.

		racketboy		Nov 2, 2003
			yeah my 2.4 is about to keel over

		Gallstaff		Nov 2, 2003
			psh I JUST bought this 2500+ and i'm already trying to oc the hell out of it and the farthest i can get is to 2 ghz with stock cooling

		IBarracudaI		Nov 2, 2003
			lol.... what about my p3 700!? :lol:

		Alexvrb		Nov 3, 2003
			If you're not going to use Windows, then are you using 64-bit Linux? What killer app requires a Athlon FX? I guess you don't really need one, if you've got the cash. Also, the P4 Extremely Expensive edition will probably do one good thing: it should make AMD drop prices on its high end stuff. I still can't believe Intel took the easy way out and relabeled some Xeons... are they really that behind on their new chips? Gallstaff: I don't think using stock cooling counts as "trying to OC the hell out of it".

ExCyber

Nov 4, 2003

	
	
		
		
			I still can't believe Intel took the easy way out and relabeled some Xeons

AFAIK, AthlonFX is little more than a relabeled Opteron; more relevant is the fact that AMD64 is actually a new 64-bit architecture whereas Xeon is just a P4 with more cache. Meanwhile, Itanium is earmarked for high-end servers (read: the CPU costs more than your entire computer) so it's not likely to catch on with enthusiasts at all.

		antime		Nov 4, 2003
			Don't the consumer-AMD64s have a halved memory bus compared to the Opteron? They were hobbled in some way anyway.

		ExCyber		Nov 4, 2003
			Yes, the SDRAM bus is halved in Athlon64. Also, all Opterons have 1MB of L2 cache while Athlon64 ranges from 256KB to 1MB. AFAIK no Athlon64 has Coherent HyperTransport either, though that might also be true of the Opteron 1xx models.

		IceDigger		Nov 4, 2003
			Yea, thats why I wanted the Athlon FX over the 64.

		Pearl Jammzz		Nov 4, 2003
			haha, mine beats all of yours..... p3 650 w/ 128mb ram....8 meg video and sound. My parents bought this new in summer of 2000 for like 1500 bucks! crazy no?

		racketboy		Nov 4, 2003
			can't beat my pair of original Pentium Thinkpads! I'm such a nice guy, I'll even let somebody buy it from me (simple plug for the FS link in my sig) Oh and I have a P166 file/music server!

		Scared0o0Rabbit		Nov 4, 2003
			I got you beat racketboy, I've got a 486/33 laptop with a monochrome screen, 6MB of ram, and an 80MB hard drive.

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