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John wrote:
The Athlon64s will easily compete with top P4s. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...hlon64_11.html http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...thlon64_8.html Don't be so sure... -- Stacey |
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John wrote:
Don't let Strontium draw you into a lengthy mess! Don't worry. I think this question is done. I've read enough of this group now to realize that talking with Strontium is pointless (e.g XP & Dial Up networking). I've made two posts that should answer all of the questions raised. Actually because you post your OPINION that an AMD64 excells in a 32bit environment doesn't make it so. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...thlon64_8.html Unless the shipping chip has some MAJOR clock speed increases, prescott is going to blow it away. -- Stacey |
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"Stacey" wrote Actually because you post your OPINION that an AMD64 excells in a 32bit environment doesn't make it so. Unless the shipping chip has some MAJOR clock speed increases, prescott is going to blow it away. I thought the AMD 64 could run old 32 bit software great and the Intel 64 couldn't? PS On the benchmarks, Intel _always_ aces AMD in multimedia encoding. It will be interesting to see what the final release 64 motherboards can do for AMD. Guess I've got to read xbit labs' stuff. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ |
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:43:07 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote: Poor AMD. Has to resort to 64bit technology to even 'touch' the P4 HT. Sad, sad, sad. ?? Are you just very young, or... ;-) (I'm biased too. I have two P4's. A 1.5MHz and a 2.4MHz. And I have two Athlons. 700MHz and XP3000+. The 1.5MHz is, most of the time, slower than the 700 it was supposed to replace. And on my main working app, a very specialized 4D pathfinding app, the 3000+ is _SEVERAL_TIMES_ faster than the 2.4GHz! I'll never, ever buy another P4/P5. I bought my first P4 because I'm ignorant. I bought my second because I'm stupid. I actually believed all that "Northwood" BS. I'll quite happily buy Intel. Some Itanium, in that case. But never another 'media chip'. I want a real cpu.) ancra |
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 06:27:34 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote: What amazes me is that people seem to think that 64bit technology is Mecca. It's been around, for a while, already. It's main usage being unix servers. Why the general consumer would need it, baffles me. Yet another marketing ploy, by the manufacturers. I doubt, very seriously, that you will have any applications that will even use 64bit...regardless of whether the OS can utilize it. You do somewhere have an excellent point: '64bit' will not, immediatly, in itself bring better performance than '32bit'. Nice to see that someone understands that. However, we do indeed need 64-bit app space, and we do need it now. Further, the Athlon64 is not just a 64-bit CPU, it's AMD's next CPU generation, the K8. For _that_ reason, it will be faster, regardless of 32/64 bitness. Applications will migrate into 64-bit as soon as they can. Win32 is limited to 2GB app space and there's a ton of video-, engineering-, simulation-, VR- and gaming opportunities to use much more. Look at the cost of RAM. The time is right for 64-bit. There was a time when some people figured there could never be any use for much more than 128-512KB. But they also couldn't imagine a PC being used for picture editing. The answer is that the applications that will use the available space will emerge. Pretty much immediatly too. Today, I professionally use a Windows app that routinely use up 1-1.5GB application space. Win32 doesn't have more than 2GB. Any day now, it's going to hit the roof and run out of space. ancra |
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:36:37 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote: JK stood up, at show-n-tell, and said: Why do we need 32 bit processors? Why not use 16 bit processors instead? Did you enjoy using 16 bit processors? :-) Nope, win95 sucked my ass. However, I was mainly using MAC's back in the day, if you must know. Well, _my_ Win95 ran way much better than, was it MacOS 7?, but never mind... MacOS 7 was nice, in many ways. - Oh, well, sweet nostalgia, sigh. Win95 is a 32-bit OS and cannot be run on a 16-bit processor. ancra |
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:40:39 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote: That's a sad state, of affairs, when AMD has to resort to 64bit to 'compete'. Sad, sad, sad. I said 'bye bye', to AMD. Bye Bye. I'm not sure you're receptive to good advice right now, but I'm going to offer it anyway. You need to distance yourself and your own feelings of personal achievements and triumph from Intels, and the P4's. I do agree however, that it would be sad if AMD fails. But I really mean it. It would be sad because competition is good. It would also be sad because the Athlon is in many ways a much better CPU. More complete. The P4 has an edge on the latest benchmark crop. Streaming instructions and recompiled for the P4. But the Athlon is faster on oldfashioned 386/387 code. It would also be sad, because then the very neccessary and needed conversion to 64-bit standard, will be just as too late, convoluted, difficult, contorted and problemridden as the changeover to 32-bit was. ancra |
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:23:57 -0500, "Strontium"
wrote: I'll speak when and where, I damned well please. Fair by me. I'm 100% with you here. But the main motivation behind your posts _IS_ an emotional personal attachment to Intel, and a compulsive desire to dis AMD. That is absolutely clear to all of us. Don't wear your keyboard denying that. It's rather that, than having opinions, that makes your input somewhat invalid, ...- in this particular thread. But I'm sure you and I could have lots of fun in some advocacy group. ;-) Don't know if there is any Intel vs AMD group. There kinda 'should' be one... ;-) ancra |
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Unless the shipping chip has some MAJOR clock speed increases, prescott is
going to blow it away. The shipping chip will perform much better than a testing model. That was rated at 2800+. These are the speeds for the release models: *1800 MHz is 3200+ *1900 MHz is 3400+ *2000 MHz is 3600+ *2100 MHz is 3800+ |
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