kony said:
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Have you been asleep for the past year or so?
It is clearly demonstrated that an Athlon 64 does NOT depend
on 64 bit for it's performance... performs VERY well at
32bit. It's a bit like buying a truck with a trailor hitch,
having the hitch doesn't effect everyday driving, just your
ability to do more in the future.
Nonsense. An Athlon 64 can now be had for under $150 at the
low end, and if you want to consider even cheaper, as always
you can simply buy older technology... eventually A64
lower-speed parts will drop in price and fill that role as
all it's predecessors have.
It's not much of a hardship, any modern socket A board will
go past 200MHz FSB, making the potential speed anywhere from
the default 2.1 up to 2.6GHz, wherever your specific
specimen's ceiling is. Besides, rasing FSB is better than
multiplier but not a massive difference. 170-185 FSB should
be obtainable.
Did you look around or only check a few retailers? In the
States a Barton XP2500 can still be found for $64.
http://www.buyaib.com/amdatxp251sb.html
thank god for the american economy then, it's about £120 for a decent 64
here, and anyway i never said that it would not work and not perform on a
32bit OS, i just feel as though there is no point when i do not have the
need for a 64 bit OS, I can pick up and AMD XP3200+ for £80, it is a £40
difference between a AMD64 2800+
I think that socket A still has a few years left as a good seller, they are
very overclockable well they were until AMD stuck up their noses and locked
them
they were very cheap, until AMD decided to release crappy semprons that cost
the same as previous AMD XP's and are generally crapper
XP's are good processors and I for one will probably have another one in the
next two years, that is unless a 64bit OS comes out, and more software and
hardware become sdependant upon the fact that you need a 64bit OS and 6bit
Processor, which when that happens there will be a mass market for the gear,
hence the price will most likely come down to about £90 for a AMD64 2800+
AMD are ahead of the game and i dont like it, they could have kept these 64s
back a bit until the OS technology caught up, now people are out there
buying 64bit processors when they have no need for them, a 32 bit socket A
AMD XP2500+ that has an unlocked multiplier that can be bought for £60 - £70
with a warranty and a stock heatsink that can be OC's to about 2800+ speeds
is a much better option than a un-needed over the top 64 it processor
anyhow it is what people want to do, so let them... AMD have played the
market well, and now look to gain alot of money from it
PS, notice high end AMD FX processors in the UK are retailing at £450...
you can build a very good overclockable system with an XP for that!! i cant
see why home users need to have such powerful processors when there is no
software out there that will run on windows that will utlize the AMD64's
full potential! and when the OS does come out the 64's will be old news
because they have been available for so long, AMD will then be pushing the
FX range for home users, and probably release a newer processor for the top
end industrial user!!
they are just pushing the ££ and $$'s so they make more of it, AMD XP's are
still very useable, more so than pentium 4's! intel havent been pushing
through processors have they, pentium 4 is still a 32 bit processor, and as
an AMD guy i find it unbelievable that intel are for once not cheating
people out of money here and instead AMD are!
erformance of a P4 must include