Guess who's gone all 64bit!!!!!

[the_leander]

With a little bit of luck in the near future I'll be fitting a water cooler to my socket 754 Athlon64 3000 (2Ghz), with a little more luck, I'll be overclocking the thing to hieghts that with my old AthlonXP setup would be considered silly (AthlonXP 2000@1.6Ghz o/c'd to 2Ghz with water cooling).

I'd expect to get 2.3Ghz comfortably with the possibility of 2.5Ghz at a stretch.

In other news I overclocked my mothers 1Ghz T'bird Athlon system to 1.3Ghz with the stock cooler with reliable results. I love my hobby :-D I just wish that the stock cooler for the Athlon 64 was as well spec'ed for the job at hand, as the temperatures are well above what I'd consider wise for general operations.

[the_leander]

mdma wrote:

BURN THE HERETIC!!!!

If I don't die, am I a witch? ;-)

Don't worry about it too much mdma, once you've got the burnt taste out of your mouth and some fresh clothes you'll be good to go. You'll get used to it after they've tried it a few times ;-)

@ Wayne

I went from a 2Ghz AthlonXP to a 2Ghz Athlon64 and the speed difference was as great if not greater then going from a 1.3Ghz duron to the AthlonXP @ 2Ghz, they really are that fast, as for ray tracing, I've been playing with POV over the past few days and of the intro scenes that come with the initial package, I've not come up against one that doesn't complete with all the bells and whistles at 1280x1024 in under a minute. This is with an Athlon64 - 3000+ (2Ghz) running BeOS R5 with 512Mb of ram, your milage may vary with windows.

[the_leander]

My only concern is that the cost of buying the final finished product - the current XP pro edition is something like £150 atm and was well over £200 when it first came out, but that said, I am very curious about what a difference in performance this would have over win2k pro.

[the_leander]

@ Wayne

You go to a greengrocers for your computer parts? Nice!

America must be a strange and wonderful place indeed, where sellers of fruit and veg also sell AMD64 computers ;-)

[the_leander]

Karlos wrote:
That was clearly my mistake, then. I forgot I was in the UK :-(

Happens quite a lot these days. Must be that new Campbell's Soup I bought recently...

 :lol:

[the_leander]

And as soon as you leave, they turn to each others and say in the finest oxford english

"So how long do you think we can keep up this pretense tarquin?"
"I don't know old bean, but at least we're paying off that abomidable student loan".

 :lol: