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Posted by Ben Brown on Dec-21-2004 00:17:

Athon 64: what do you think?

Anyone you have an athlon 64? What are your opinions? I plan on getting a laptop in the next 3 weeks, preferrably one with an athlon 64(I have xp 64 on a disc to install when I get the laptop). I'll be gaming a little and doing some minor production with it, as well as school work. Also, I could use some suggestions as to which laptop I should get as well. I'm thinking of getting an acer ferrari 3200, but I'm up for any suggestions.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Dec-21-2004 03:54:

Athlon 64's own everything. Well, the S939's do.

Posted by Tranceporter99 on Dec-21-2004 06:59:

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH
Athlon 64's own everything. Well, the S939's do.

they all do really, alot of current games(HL2), have moved alot of the strain off of the GPU or Graphics Card, to the processor, which makes a faster proccesor actually relevant for gaming, unlike the last 5-7 years where it really hasnt mattered that much, I have so much to upgrade on my box(GPU, RAM, HDD, case) that makes me getting a new CPU/mobo combo irrelavent for now. but they are worth the extra money.

Posted by dj chex on Dec-21-2004 08:07:

Whats really nice about the athlon 64 is it's memory controller is built in the cpu itself instead of the northbridge. The evolution is kind of like what happened to cache memory and math co-processor years ago.

But as of now, my pc still pwns considering i built it over a year ago w/ the p4-2.4c that was the overclocking beast thats cheap.

Now, for good overclockers for the money, i would throw my cash at the Winchester 3000+ or 3200+

Posted by infinity HiGH on Dec-21-2004 08:23:

I have a Athlon 64 3000+...just waiting for the new PCI-E motherboard from ASUS to finally come in, and get my Geforce6600GT and i'm set

Planning on doing some overclocking, of course. I've heard that you can bump a 3000+ to 3500+ speeds, if not more.

Posted by dj chex on Dec-21-2004 08:45:

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Originally posted by infinity HiGH
I have a Athlon 64 3000+...just waiting for the new PCI-E motherboard from ASUS to finally come in, and get my Geforce6600GT and i'm set

Planning on doing some overclocking, of course. I've heard that you can bump a 3000+ to 3500+ speeds, if not more.

You gonna do SLI w/ the 6600gt?? Crap, it's been years when i was sporting a sli voodoo2 pci setup, but it feels like last year.

I think i'll keep my asus p4p800 2.4/3.02ghz setup just a while longer till the 6800gt goes down to $250 or maybe i'll wait for the dual core cpus to come out from either amd or the new G5, since im now so use to Hyperthreading, i just can't enjoy a single cpu or a pc w/o HT.

Posted by Synapse1337 on Dec-21-2004 15:50:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
Athlon 64's own everything. Well, the S939's do.

+1.

Posted by tc-fan on Dec-21-2004 16:00:

I own a Althlon 64 +3800 and it owns all...even Intels upcoming 64 cant compare to althlons..

Posted by infinity HiGH on Dec-22-2004 18:25:

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Originally posted by dj chex
You gonna do SLI w/ the 6600gt?? Crap, it's been years when i was sporting a sli voodoo2 pci setup, but it feels like last year.

I think i'll keep my asus p4p800 2.4/3.02ghz setup just a while longer till the 6800gt goes down to $250 or maybe i'll wait for the dual core cpus to come out from either amd or the new G5, since im now so use to Hyperthreading, i just can't enjoy a single cpu or a pc w/o HT.

Hyperthreading? What is that anyways?

And yea, I'm definately gonna SLI 2 6600GT's. I was originally hoping for a 6800 PCI-E...but those are just "paper launch's", I haven't seen ANY anywhere, even though I know MSI, Leadtek and BFG all have PCI-E, SLI-ready 6800 cards.

BTW, got my Motherboard in yesterday

Posted by Tranceporter99 on Dec-22-2004 19:15:

Posted by infinity HiGH on Dec-22-2004 22:55:

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Originally posted by Tranceporter99
ha, i dont have to wait, I already have it and its just as fast,i got the AGP

I'm not really waiting either...got the motherboard last night, just waiting for Xmas for the Video Card

Posted by Marcus007 on Dec-22-2004 23:44:

asus > all.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Dec-23-2004 06:28:

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Originally posted by Marcus007
asus > all.

We'll see. I'm definately more impressed with their design, and packaging than MSI's. Tomorrow I'll see how well installation and set up goes. *crosses fingers*

Posted by tc-fan on Dec-23-2004 07:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Marcus007
asus > all.

try using dual channel memory on all slots and see what happens...

Abit all the way

Posted by Tranceporter99 on Dec-23-2004 07:30:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
I'm not really waiting either...got the motherboard last night, just waiting for Xmas for the Video Card

wait, i didnt think a AMD PCI-E mobo was out.

Posted by infinity HiGH on Dec-23-2004 19:58:

quote:
Originally posted by tc-fan
try using dual channel memory on all slots and see what happens...

Abit all the way

i haven't heard anything about this....

Posted by Streakfury on Dec-31-2004 16:50:

I've recently bought a motherboard kit with the Athlon64 3000+, so I'll be buying the rest of the pieces in the next couple of weeks. I've also got XP 64 on CD waiting to be installed, so has anyone tried it out yet?? I wouldn't mind knowing a few of the bugs and whatnot before I install it incase it all goes a bit tits up. You can download it from Microsoft over HERE.

Let us know if you have any troubles!!