It looks to be smokin’!
Can’t wait for the price to drop so that I can afford one.
there’s reviews on www.tomshardware.com and www.hardocp.com with the new Pentium thrown in for comparison.
And AMD is making it backwards compatible with 32-bit abilities. A friend of mine did a report and found some info that when the higher models come out, some of them will be able to emulate 128-bit processing. Don’t ya just love it?
Is there a practial limit on the bit depth you can use on a processor?
[H]ardOCP is my favorite geek hangout! If it isn’t **[H]**ard it isn’t worth doing!
As soon as the price gets reasonable ( <$200 ) I’ll be gettin one!
Venus,
ahh such geek fun. I esp like how the two sites were rivals then started cooperating and now hate each other with a passion.
Eh. Every review I’ve seen says that the move to 64-bit processing is premature, as there’s no real need (or demand) for 64-bit software, resulting in negligible gains with the new Athlon.
Ya know, I remember reading the same thing about the 2 gigahertz chips, no need, no applications, yadda, yadda.
And they’re working on a version of Linux to use the chips!
As soon as XP/A64 comes out I’ll be getting users clamouring for it. The extra memory space is a killer feature, even for 32-bit apps, as each such app will be able to have 4 GB for itself. My users do a lot of modelling, simulation, and number-crunching, so 64-bit software will be a godsend.
I wonder how Linux distros will be able to keep up with this huge “digital media revolution”. I’m running Mandrake 9.1 on a new laptop, I don’t even have a fully tested graphics driver. Anyone know if this release of the new AMD athlon processors will speed up production of Linux drivers for graphics excelerators and other hardware?
Link to the Specs: News Forge