Enter The Hammer

[TeaLeaf]

A neat little review of what looks like it will be a monster chip is set out here.

Me thinks that we'll wait for the price to drop a bit first and then buy a cheapy and overclock it to faster than fast levels  

TL.

[Dr Sadako]

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTI0

[DarkAngel]

:dribble:

[Tutonic]

Erk, pricetag :unsure:

[Stryker]

The Athlon64FX is a wonder of engineering as its all still based on the shite old x86 architecture.  From what I Read its kind of 2 * 32 bit as opposed to true 64 bit.  Lets face it there was a design ceiling to the speed of the old die range so this is just a space filler while the software scene catches up.... some say this will be around 12-18 months.  Then see what amd release and buy a REAL 64Bit chip.

Personally I'm waiting for the top barton price to hit the floor then am buying that.... .that should tide me over for the 12 month wait  

[smilodon]

I gather MS released a beta of their 64 bit OS. So we should see something soldi from Mr Gates in 'god knows when'  

[Tutonic]

Epic are working on 64bit versions of UT2003 and 4, apparently..

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by Stryker@Sep 24 2003, 01:17 PM
Personally I'm waiting for the top barton price to hit the floor then am buying that.... .that should tide me over for the 12 month wait

Buy a Barton 2500 from cpucity now for £72 and it will go as fast as the top of the range AMD.
Buy an XP1700 or XP1800 from them for £42 and it will go faster than AMD's flagship cpu.
Why wait?

TL.

[Stryker]

I know it *reads* faster but surley down to design its not as fast as it seems?  does it have the same cache?

....... or shall I shut up now?  

[DogMeat]

Originally posted by smilodon@Sep 24 2003, 01:35 PM
I gather MS released a beta of their 64 bit OS. So we should see something soldi from Mr Gates in 'god knows when'  

No change there then.  All M$ software is in pemanent beta. <_<

DM

[TeaLeaf]

Originally posted by Stryker@Sep 25 2003, 09:33 AM
I know it *reads* faster but surley down to design its not as fast as it seems? does it have the same cache?

....... or shall I shut up now?

If you went for the 2500 Barton then there is *no* difference.  Buy it now and then overclock it - it will go as fast as the flagship you want.

If you bought a  T-bred XP1700/1800 then yes the Barton's 512K level 2 cache is bigger than the Thoroughbred-B's 256K L2 cache, but I'd put my overclocked XP1700 T-bred-B up against either an overclocked Barton 2500 or an AMD XP3200 any day.  I reckon I'd win in whichever kind of benchmark you'd throw at it.

TL.