Athlon64

[Acriku]

Hey, I'm in the middle of building my new computer, and I was wondering whether or not the new Athlon 64 was worth its $500. I saw a sale from Cheap Guy's which had it for half, so maybe it'd be worth that. Anybody with experience with this new chip?

[gryphon]

I have experiance with the server version in a dual setup. . .the only thing I can say about them that they run database applications really fast. . ;D

[Nyarlathotep]

If you run the aplications build for it, it's well worth it. But for gaming for example, it won't make any difference and IMHO you'd be better off, although maybe more expensive, with a Intel.

[Cyborg]

I've heard both good and bad things about the Athlon 64.

If you can afford it, why not try it?

[fremfedeliteNIAC]

Hmm, well I've been thinking about this alot too and I found out that the 3400+ 64 is actually a little faster then then 3.2, also the benchmarks were for 32 bit apps so in the future it could be well worth it when the 64 bit app come out...(the benchmarks i saw were at tomshardware.com btw)

Oh and there is a 64 bit Win Xp btw which sounds pretty good...

[Kiyouta]

Currently the 64-bit version of Windows XP only supports Intel's 64-bit chips. Not AMDs. But 'Longhorn' will support 64-bit AMD CPUs.

[fremfedeliteNIAC]

Oh right, I didn't know that, thanks.

[shygirl4]

the pc shop where I live as been selling AMD 64-bit computers with Windows XP installed since december last year.

http://www.thecomputershop.co.uk/packages.php?id=2

check out the link maybe I read it wrong.

shy  ::)

[gryphon]

Check out what AMD has to say about it

This is Microsofts 64 support page. . .

WindowsXP will be able to run on AMD's 64 CPU is I am not mistaken. And there is .. or will be released in a not-to-distant-future an version of WinXP that cam support it.

If I am correct. ....

[Kiyouta]

I never said Windows XP wouldn't work on Athlon64. I said that the 64-Bit version of Windows XP does not work for Athlon64. The 32-Bit version of Windows XP (ie. Home and Pro) does however, which is what they are selling with the PCs.

But this of course, does not use the CPUs to their full 64-bit potential.

[Khan]

So if you run a 64 bit processor on a 32 bit system, will it actually be that much faster that a 32 bit processor of the same clock speed?

[Kiyouta]

It might run slightly faster, but nothing significant. i.e. A 64-bit processor at 3000 Mhz would run a 32-bit app at the same speed of say a 3100 Mhz 32-bit processor.

[Khan]

Oh I see. So will Longhorn be fully 64-bit compatible?

[Kiyouta]

According to Microsoft it will be...

[Khan]

Also, what is the difference between the 64 fx-51, and the other versions of the Athlon64?